danicus

@ Athanasios - Thanks for your reminder and all, but I could not navigate to your link. @ All - Finding myself unwilling to pay $100 for an upgrade Win7 Home Premium to Win7 pro, I searched for a free alternative 'Virtual Machine' and came across this: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/virtualbox/downloads/index.html Oracle VM allowed me to re-install a valid version Win XP which I still owned and had a product key for. After some tweaking I did get GruntLords mod to work which brings me to: @ Gruntlord6- Thanks again for a great mod - now I find myself happily spending time shooting up rouge sand worms. Cheers!

I tried this driver but still no success if I could get access to XP mode that would be excellent Thanks for all the Help

Yes I have a gift for giving people what they don't need ... Anyway, here is the display info: ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro AGP (Microsoft Corporation WDDM 1.1) [Display adapter] Acer AL1917 [Monitor] (19.1"vis, s/n 60300523PY10, January 2006) I've tried updating the driver, but can't get Win 7 to let me install it. It claims to already have the" best driver".

Operating System new – server roles System Model Windows 7 Home Premium (x64) (build 7600) Install Language: English (United States) System Locale: English (United States) Installed: 12/5/2010 6:50:10 PM Enclosure Type: Desktop Processor a Main Circuit Board b 1.80 gigahertz AMD Sempron 128 kilobyte primary memory cache 256 kilobyte secondary memory cache 64-bit ready Not hyper-threaded Board: WinFast 760GXK8MC Serial Number: WYWM60603305 Bus Clock: 200 megahertz BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG 10/08/2005 Drives new – drive encryption Memory Modules c,d 320.06 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity 214.97 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space 52X32COMBO ATA Device [Optical drive] PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-111D ATA Device [Optical drive] 3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive] HP Photosmart C3140 USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 1 WDC WD3200AAJB-00J3A0 [Hard drive] (320.07 GB) -- drive 0, s/n WD-WCAV2P191608, rev 01.03E01, SMART Status: Healthy 2048 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory Too much? Note: Can not install VM on my version of win7 need to have pro version not home (or what ever). Sorry it took so long to respond. I appreciate any help. Cheers,

I am so close ... I downloaded your version which went fine. The opening pages looked good. I went to the next screen and it is split vertically. Reminiscent of the old horizontally split screen problem. I can see the game but it is impossible to play. Re-downloaded it - same thing. Watched the opening movie for the campaign and it works beautifully. What can I try to do to fix the 'black bar' problem? I'm sure it's my system and not the mod. Which I can't thank you enough for as I love this classic game. A fan, Danicus

Master of Magic II

Oh, I play them all. My favorite is Atreides, Harkonnen,, and then Ordos. How 'bout yours?

Just for being a good sport when I slammed your Dune 2000 playing abilities. :)

Your gentlemanliness shames me. I accept your conclusion, and I thank you. DRAW it is then.

Not to be a grammar Nazi, but here goes... You wanted to say "It isn't different, it's only a little less advanced." I think we all got your intent, but this way it is better English. I hope this doesn't make you feel bad. If it is any consolation, my Polish sucks. I don't notice you making too many errors in English. My hope is you can take the correction in the spirit it is given ... because smart people like to learn stuff and I can tell you, you are way smarter than me. At least in language acquisition and programming. I'd probably kick your ass in Dune 2000 though. ;D

Now I have to go find the prequel to "tremors" Tremors IV I guess. I liked the 1st one the best out of the 3 I've seen. The worm in this game doesn't really fly. If any giant worm could fly it would be even more terrifying. There was this great old sci-fi book called the "Death Worms of Kratos" part of a series called the Expendables, by Richard Avery. Kind of a fun read if you can find them. I thought they pre-dated "Dune" but they don't Dune according to Wikipedia was written in 1965! Didn't know that.

Wow. Cool Mod. Thanx.

Greetings, I read thru your post and the thread that was attached to it and first of all - I feel your pain. Apparently, a lot of people have read your post and have this same issue, hopefully my experience will help some of them.I had this problem and (just as you stated) everything I tried failed, until I updated my monitors drivers and "viola" D2K looks good and runs fine in XP. I didn't notice anyone suggesting this, so there you are hope it works for you too. It is a frustrating problem to be so close and then "fail." Cheers, Danicus

Playing this reminded me of the good ol' Dune Worms. Now I can relate to them a little better ... http://gmarcade.com/game/DeathWorm.html The only way it could be better is if it were set in the Duneiverse. Note: You don't have to join to play.

Back in the day I used to play around making maps for Dune 2000 with the old S/H map editor and when I upgraded to XP the tile sets looked like the lines you are talking about. I think it was a problem between XP and S/H. I could never figure out how to get the graphics to work. However I don't claim to know anything about programming or the processes involved in correcting this problem - as I'm sure this post, undoubtedly, clearly shows. I apologize too, if this has been discussed in the forum already, and I'm bringing up old news like it's new. It's just I was playing around with some Dune 200 trying to activate the maps from the download section here. (still haven't figured that out yet). :P