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Posted December 09, 2013
I just downloaded Still Life (and Still Life 2) and am having trouble with Still Life.

I'm running Win7 Pro 64-bit on a laptop. When I start Still Life an application and a process kick off and uses about 13% CPU so something is running but I don't see anything on the screen. It isn't black, just the usual desktop for me with altered color scheme. Windows does popup a message that my color scheme is changed to Win7 Basic. Explicitly switching to the application still nothing. When I terminate the process the color scheme is returned to the prior one.

I've read the other posts from 2011 and I'm configured as those posts describe but still no glory. I suspect a resolution issue. The laptop won't go below 800x600. Does Still Life mandate 640x480 ONLY?

Anyone else know what may be going on here?

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Post edited December 09, 2013 by chricton
Posted December 10, 2013
Short answer to your resolution question is: no. The game was made in 2005 not in 1995. Have you tried tinkering with the different compatibility modes, disabling desktop themes and running as administrator. Don't have the GOG version, but those usually make the non-GOG version to run under Win7 x64.
Posted December 12, 2013
Yes. I've tried many combinations of the compatibility settings. Nothing worked. Will keep tinkering for awhile longer but it doesn't look good.
Posted December 15, 2013
I wonder if i'm not seeing a result of not running with DX9. I have the latest DX11 installed and have seen some other information stating some apps won't run without DX9 itself.

Will DX9 runtime coexist happily with DX11 installed?
Posted December 15, 2013
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chricton: I wonder if i'm not seeing a result of not running with DX9. I have the latest DX11 installed and have seen some other information stating some apps won't run without DX9 itself.

Will DX9 runtime coexist happily with DX11 installed?
Installing Dx9 won't replace your Dx11, so installing older DirectX won't mess up things. While DirectX is mostly backwards compatible, occasionally some older games use DirectX files, which the newer versions don't have and you have to install those to make the game work.
Posted January 04, 2014
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chricton: I just downloaded Still Life (and Still Life 2) and am having trouble with Still Life.

I'm running Win7 Pro 64-bit on a laptop. When I start Still Life an application and a process kick off and uses about 13% CPU so something is running but I don't see anything on the screen. It isn't black, just the usual desktop for me with altered color scheme. Windows does popup a message that my color scheme is changed to Win7 Basic. Explicitly switching to the application still nothing. When I terminate the process the color scheme is returned to the prior one.

I've read the other posts from 2011 and I'm configured as those posts describe but still no glory. I suspect a resolution issue. The laptop won't go below 800x600. Does Still Life mandate 640x480 ONLY?

Anyone else know what may be going on here?

</edit: The description of what I see on the screen>
Decided to install this game and had the same problem. Windows XP here. Found the game was set in NT Compatbility mode. unchecked this in the executable and it run. Windows NT compat mode only needed for some computer such as Win Vista or 7.
Posted July 26, 2014
I'm having the same problem but on a mac. I'm running 10.7.5, 2.7 GHz with 4 GB of RAM.
Posted August 11, 2014
I have the same issue. Although I can kind of get it to work if I set it to windows 98 in compatibility mode. It opens but when you go to talk to the people in the game it locks up.
Posted December 18, 2014
If you guys haven't figured it out yet -
Try Run As Administrator
Posted December 18, 2014
That was one of the first things I tried. I also tried compatibility mode in several configurations.
Posted January 02, 2015
You need to run the game in compatibility mode with Windows NT 4.0 (Service Pack 5) and check the following options on the compatibility tab: disable visual themes, disable desktop composition and run this program as administrator.
Post edited January 02, 2015 by qraito
Posted April 20, 2017
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qraito: You need to run the game in compatibility mode with Windows NT 4.0 (Service Pack 5) and check the following options on the compatibility tab: disable visual themes, disable desktop composition and run this program as administrator.
This worked for me.
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