Try doing just: Black_White_Patch_v1.100.exe, black_white_patch_v1_20.exe, BWFanPatchInstaller.exe
And try running in Windowed mode, could help. Fan patch does include a NoCD patch too so no need to crack.
1.41 won't work without 1.1 and 1.2 being installed prior. You need to be able to install those patches in order for it to work.
I think the issue is your installation media of the game, is it a disc from a non English country? You could try sourcing an English version of the game from...
Ah yeah I can see the textures at the back are low quality. I'll look into the engine and see if there's anything obvious, I can't promise anything though.
The event viewer log is really helpful actually, I'll investigate - from my knowledge though LHMultiplayer.dll relies on some really really old modem APIs in Windows that are probably removed, I'll look into it and confirm it if so, I think I'll be able to patch it too.
Also I'm not sure if you saw, but I recently found the original BW2 scripts, including scripts for epic cinematics: https://github.com/openblack/bw2-modding/tree/master/lhvm/scripts
I know you wrote your own, but these could be useful to fill in any missing parts you might've missed from their...
Great to hear from you Daxter :) I hadn't realized you were still updating the ModDB page, seems like there's a lot of following still. I'm glad you've released all the source files. :>
Logging is easy enough to enable, I have a ddraw.dll proxy that opens up some developer options of the game I could give you via Discord.
Try this: https://discord.gg/scCqFFc
So the fun thing about the registry in Black & White - is how most of the options are actually used. The game reads the registry values but never applies them to any global variables.
And good pickup of the B&W Platinum Pack for Mac, if you have IDA the executable contains symbols which makes...
Not really all that difference, without my patches the game runs a lot worse in fact because the game can't comprehend the amount of RAM you have and defaults back to low graphics mode.
You can easily run the game at 200+ FPS on max settings though on any hardware after 2008 :)
You probably have the resolution set too high or something similar, try changing it to various ones lower then your actual laptop resolution.
If all else fails windowed mode should work well, I realize it's not as nice as fullscreen though.
There was a cancelled game for the DS called Black & White Creatures.
The original press release described the game's features:
You can find more images here: https://www.unseen64.net/2008/04/08/black-white-creatures-ds-cancelled/
DirectX won't help you, the best version is already preinstalled with Windows.
The problem with no music can be solved by copying the Audio folder from your disk to your game folder as described in my post: https://www.bwfiles.com/forum/index.php?topic=7916.0