The King's Bounty demo doesn't start.
 

Hi all.
I've installed the King's Bounty demo.
When I start the game, it shows this window :

http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/6153/wtfdm0.png

So, I click "OK", and it does... Absolutely nothing.
It justs close the window and doesn't launch the game.

Did I miss something?

You should presss "Activate", then the game will start

Whe I press "activate", the windows asks me a serial number, wich I donet have.

Sorry, my fault, you should press "ok", and the game will start automaticaly (I've checked a minute ago).

I tried, but it does nothing.
I also tried to reboot my PC, but that doesn't change anything.

Try to look in the task manager, if it doesn't start at all, send youк detailed system specification to our support team: support@1cpublishing.eu.

I looked at the task manager and the process kb.exe closes quickly after I pressed "ok".
I'll send a mail, thanks.

Okay, problem solved : the game starts when I desactivate my dual screen. :/

WAIT... Will this game use Starforce protection?

Would it not be better to start a seperate thread for that ?

Yeah, looks like it will. The Russian version came with Starforce, and I see to some extent it's also present in the demo (which is common, so pirates couldn't crack the real thing based on demo executable). It's no big deal though, as it takes a single click to remove the Starforce drivers if they cause any trouble, and no need to reboot or anything. And in the latest patch of the Russian version they removed copy protection altogether.

Well, I'm not going to buy any version of any game with Starforce in.
I really hope a digital delivery version is coming.

The game now runs without desactivating my dual screen... Weird. But cool.
Oh, another thing : I tried to activate the windowed mode via game.ini, but it doesn't seem to work. Any idea to fix that?

Installed on Vista But Wont work.
 

Ugh, I know, Vista, But bare with me.
I installed the game.
And then I try to run it and it says:

"Unable to access or modify the system registry. Make sure you have privileges to write to the system registry."

Now the game is running in admin mode and I don't have Dual screen's on.

Anyone have any ideas?

Hi there!
I just downloaded the (French) demo and when I try to start the game an error pop-up says me that the d3dx9_33.dll is not found, even after re-installation. What can I do? Re-download?
Thanks in advance.

EDIT: It works now, thanks!

Try to reinstall DirectX

http://www.filehippo.com/download_directx/

Oh hey Zenithale, yeah reinstalling Directx seems to be the solution, my littlebrother had the same problem with the game i think, but reinstalling Directx let him play the game.

The demo on the official french website is the english one.

Hi, I am having the same problem the OP was having. I have installed the game several times. And every time it says I need to activate or hit OK. I hit Ok and after a second it kills the exe file.

My system is an
XP Pro
Intel Core 2 6300
2GB ram
Direct X 9.0c

Vcard: Intel GMA 3000
256MB
Intel G965

the same with me game start and kills itself after one minute, the process i mean, but it runs in the background somwhere i cant see anything after i click the icon and press OK


any ideas? its so annoying i cant play it!!!

I cannot run this demo on any computer with Intel integrated graphic card. Any suggestion how to fix it?

OK, problem solved. on Intel integrated graphics card do the following:

1) download program 3D Analyze 2.36 FREE and extract it to any folder

2) run this program, click on Select and navigate to folder where Kings Bounty is installed, doubleclick on file kb.exe

3) In 3D Analyze tool there is checbox "Emulate HW TnL caps". This have to be checked

4) Finally, click Run button, confirm by pressing OK and game runs fine


P.S.: Thanks to user spamm from this forum, his suggestion in another topic works perfectly. Many thanks mate!

never mind, I know what I did wrong

got the same problem cannot start it ask me for a activation key
 

Hello, well im very curious to play this game *sorry for my english* but cannot play it ,it ask me for an activation key to play the demo, how can i play it?
i have a dell inspiron 9400, windows vista, 2 g ram.
I tried everything and nothing, any help?
i want to play and if like it buy the game, but man if the demo is buggy cant beleive how the game is going to be.....Thanks in advance.

When I start the demo it gives two options.

1. Ok
2. Activate

If you push activate it asks you to insert a code. If you push 'ok' it starts the demo.

This works perfectly and was able to fix the problem I've been having -- thank you very much SPAMM, and thank you smartart for reposting this information or I very likely would have overlooked it lol :)

Still a problem
 

Downladed and installed a demo, couldn't start it, installed 3DAnalyze
When I click run, there is an error screen - screenshot added (even after I have manually copyed that .dll to the KB folder). What can I do now ?

http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/3941/problemgd4.jpg
http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/p...jpg/1/w800.png

tnk u very much!! It works!!