olamansteamhater: So I just bought Populous the beginning yesterday.
I was going to screenshot it but it appears to be black. I suffer the same problems with many people who posted it before, and after reading for a while, someone suggested to try running the game by using popTB.exe or popTBUW.exe because all other .exe lead to "Program Crash" or video card error. So when I got the game to launch, the colors are broken & I could barely read anything, I already send a support ticket but no responses yet. Any ideas on how to fix this?
Althought GOG galaxy warns the incompatibility with windows greater thant 7, I ran it in windows 10 64 bit. Also I know there are problems in launching the game in windows 7. The problem is with the D3DPopTB. exe file. The popTB.exe file will work but with bizarre colors. Here I present a recipe that allowed to run populous with nice colors, at least it worked in my PC computer (I hope it works in everyone):
1- Download DGvoodoo from
http://dege.fw.hu/dgVoodoo2/dgVoodoo2.html (I used last version, no virus at all)
2- After downloading extract the archive. Open it and go to MS folder. Inside you should be able to find:
D3D8.dll
D3DImm.dll
DDraw.dll
3- Copy these 3 .dll files into the game installation folder (the default is C:\GOG Games\game-name)
4- Execute D3DPopTB
This is not the end. You will see a good resolution but with some kind of strange "fluorescence" like the game being radioactive (I don't find the proper words). Press Esc, go to options, graphics. If you change the resolution to "high" the graphics will look nice, but you will have problmes with your mousse. You wont be able to move it correctly. So choose low resolution or medium. Then press the left bottom mouse in the "gamma correction" cursor and then it is magic: not only the colors will be nice, but also you wont have problems with the mouse controll.
This not all, because when you pass the level and try to play the next one the screen will look black (but the game is still running). Just press alt tab and re enter the game by clicking on the icon game (dont exit the game). Now again the same trick. Go to options, graphics, gamma correction and click on the cursor.
Perhaps you need to click on the dgVoodoo setup file (that is in the game installation folder) and change some launch options. I did it, but I don't know exactly if that made any contribution in running the game. The important thing is what I described above.
