#Grim fandango remastered not starting Patch#
#Grim fandango remastered not starting full#

Resident Evil, a poster child for aging poorly, second only to Macaulay Culkin. But the games that do get remastered and preserved thusly are getting picked pretty fucking arbitrarily, in what seems to be a fucking open season on remasterings. I always appreciate the kind of remastering that lets you see how far we've come, with a special button that turns the graphics back to the original low-res version like you've opened a gateway to the LEGO dimension. Still, I'll take a remasterbate over a rebootycall, 'cause like all culture, games exist as a historical record that can teach us a lot about technology and attitudes of the past, all of which is lost if you remake it every ten years with all new gritty realism and testicle physics. Even a dog chasing it's own tail has the sense not to bite it off and try to sell it as a draught excluder. What isn't a sequel is knockoff, what isn't a knockoff is a reboot, what isn't a reboot is a remastering. You ever get the feeling that the big, fancy ship we've had so much fun on over the years has started sitting a bit lower in the water than it used to? And when we bring our concerns to the captain, we find him doubled over with his pants round his ankles and his nose shoved up his asshole, 'cause he was curious to know if it was possible to survive by breathing your own farts? I've been feeling that way about the AAA sector of the industry for some time now.

This week, Zero Punctuation reviews Grim Fandango.

#Grim fandango remastered not starting full#

You could also try the ScummVM Residual project at, I've played around with the ScummVM tool to play Sam and Max, Full Throttle and some of the Monkey Island games, but haven't looked at this spin off tool.Taking On Remastered Games And The Effects of Nostalgia Just be sure to reenable Directdraw/Direct3d before trying to run other games! This is on Workstation, but should behave the same on Fusion. (that and my original Grim Fandango disks are on loan, you know who you are!)Īs for a workaround, I just downloaded the demo of Grim Fandango, and if I run DXDiag (Start->Run->type 'dxdiag') and disable both Direct3D and DirectDraw, it fixes the flickering. This happens whether 3D acceleration is enabled in the game or not, so the game may be doing some obscure directdraw calls or something, I haven't had time to investigate further. That's the good news, the bad news is the game doesn't render correctly, all backgrounds look right but the character models constantly flicker. Actually, I might have just changed the shortcut properties, IE: make a desktop shortcut to the game, right click the shortcut and pick properties, and then check the 'Run this program in compatibility mode for' (Windows 98).

#Grim fandango remastered not starting Patch#

This game should at least launch on Windows XP, I did some testing awhile back, and I got the game to run, I seem to recall I needed a patch to let the game run on WindowsXP. I also tried running win98 guest and not installing VMware Tools, in case it was a problem with Tools, but I couldn't get the display out of 16-colour mode, which meant the game refused to start. Running custom launcher (from and running in windowed mode (Note this is different from the 'black screen 100% cpu usage' error listed at - which is why I'm asking for help here!)Īny thoughts on what to try? Are there any vm settings that might help here?ĭirectx 9 installed and 'emulate 3d' ticked 'Grim Fandango could not initialize your hardware!' / 'Please make sure you are not running any DirectX apps that take exclusive control of your hardware' I've tried several different combinations of guests and settings, and I keep getting the same message: I'm trying to run Grim Fandango, a fabulous win98 (originally) game from LucasArts

I'm running Vmware Fusion 2.0 (116369) on a MacBook