Multiplayer: Conditions stuck at 51

[Hammer]

My brother and I both play Black & White, and we have enjoyed playing the multiplayer over our LAN connection in the past. We recently tried again, only to find that we cannot change any of the condition variables and they are all stuck at 51. (i.e. Build 51 settlements as a victory condition.)

The only difference that we can think of from when multiplayer was working properly is that we were both using XP before, and now we are both using Windows 7.

Any ideas?

 

[Sylvan]

Use a virtual machine.

Windows 7 has some issues with the (old! even, archaic) coding of BW - and how it interacts with the registries.

So far, non of us have found a fix for this - we have tried run as admin, run on the actual admin account, disable the UAC - all seem to be dependant on other things, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.


I wish I could help you more - but I suggest you (if you have Win7 Ultimate) use the Virtualisation device, and play BW that way - if your PC is reasonable, and has atleast 2+GB of memory, you should be fine.

 

[Hammer]

Yeah, I was already considering using VirtualBox. I was just hoping there was a way around it.

It's really too bad multiplayer doesn't work, because everything else works for me in Windows 7. Oh well.

Thanks for the answer.