My situation is a little bit ridiculous. My computer is a MacBook Pro (2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo; 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM; GeForce 8600M GT [128 MB VRAM]; Mac OS X version 10.4.11). I have Parallels 3.0, however, so I thought I might be able to play the demo by making a Windows XP virtual machine to play on. Since I got the demo, however, I've had nothing but trouble. Here's a list of my problems, in chronological order, and how I got past all of them but the last one.
Problem 1: An error claiming that I was missing "d3dx9_33.dll" when I first tried to run the demo.
Solution 1: That file can be downloaded from a number of websites. I got it from
this site and stuck it in the C:\WINDOWS\system32 folder.
Problem 2: Another error message reading ".\BMRender\rmode.cpp(1595): DirectX call failed: -1, -1, D3DERR_NOTAVAILABLE (This device does not support the queried technique)".
Solution 2: After poking around in the Parallels configuration editor for a while, I found a check-box labeled "Enable DirectX support". Checking it resolved the second error message.
Problem 3: The screen flashed random static as soon as I started the demo and the program crashed with the error "unknown r_path 'ps20'".
Solution 3: In C:\Program Files\1C Company\King’s Bounty - The Legend demo\data there are a couple of .ini files. In "default.ini" changing the line "
sets ~r_path "ps20"" to "
sets ~r_path "auto"" resolved the problem, allowing the game to finally launch.
Problem 4: The game sort of launches - the 1C Company and Katauri Interactive logo videos play, and the menu screen comes up with some music playing. However, as soon as I do
anything (press any key or move/click the mouse), the music starts sounding like a broken record for a moment and a "KB.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close" bug report window pops up.
Solution 4: I'm here to find out.
Should I post the dxdiag report for my virtual machine here? It doesn't say that anything is out of date. Perhaps the resources Parallels allots to the Windows XP virtual machine are below the minimum system requirements.