M&M IX Won't Start

[Ed Robinson]

I have loaded M&M IX several times. I have loaded the 1.2 patch. I get my party built then attempt to start the game. The boat gets most of the way across the screen and a voice says "Hello" then everything stops. I have to go into task manager to close the program.

I had run this game a couple of times with XP. My current machine is running Vista. I have tried the game in both XP and 98 compatability mode.

Any thoughts???

[darknessfood]

Option 1: Don't pain yourself with playing the most anoying M&M game.
Option 2: You don't listen and use this patch.

[arturchix]

My current machine is running Vista.

Unfortunately you answered yourself, I think. You can try to update the game up to 1.3 but Vista is unpredictable. I just started to play Morrowind GotY on my new laptop which is running Vista and the installer simply didn't copy several data files because of the over-protective Vista security system. I had to copy over 100 MB of data manually to make it work.

[CoffeeGnome]

MMIX and windows vista have a small screen-transfer bug associated with them. When you see the boat stop movine simply hit Alt+Tab and refresh the screen back to your desktop, then hit Alt+Tab one more time to go back to the game. The loading problem will fix itself when the screen refreshes.
I ran into this problem too. Unfortunately I had trouble getting help from this site because a lot of people on this site do not like MMIX.

[Corribus]

MMIX won't start? Consider yourself fortunate.

[darknessfood]

MMIX won't start? Consider yourself fortunate.

See, that'sthe answer you will get out of us DIE HARD MM fans

[arturchix]

Die hard MM or HoMM fans? There's a big difference. Die hard MM fans play also MM9.

[Lord13]

MnM IX sucks...
Heroes 5 sucks...
DMoMM sucks...
Give us some good damn Might And Magics finally!!
I miss New World Computing

p.s.-About vista and MnM 9 I don't know something, soz I can't help