If it runs on win7 or 8 it should be ok on win10, but far too many people report that that is not the case. What I had hope to get is listed in the topic because microsoft has not published a works with windows 10 devices or programs that was very helpful in the win8 program. My issue as posted through the forum and other websites has been related to this topic. With my issue of sata motherboard drivers on (A ) gigabyte motherboard causing hard drive issues, that is still unresolved. As far as my real time experience from the basic microsoft sata driver to the amd driver having the same issue of boot drive instability. Gigabyte express install.
Laura's Happy Adventures is an adventure aimed at girls that uses the typical Playmobil look for its graphics. The player takes the role of Laura who breaks accidentally a stone from her grandfather's collection. Laura's Happy Adventures is an adventure, role-playing video game developed by Playmobil Interactive and distributed by Ubi Soft Entertainment. The game was originally released in 1998 becoming the first adventure video game to be produced primarily for young girls as a target audience. The setting was based on Playmobil's popular Victorian.
Any old hardware and compatibility mode experts out there?
My daughter loved this UbiSoft program when she was little and she would like to try it again for nostalgia reasons, so I made it my Xmas project to try to get it going again for her.
It seems to have very specific graphics requirements.
The CD box says 'Windows 95/98/ME Pentium 200 or faster' and 'Any 4MB Direct 3D compatible Graphics card' (*** but see below for the full details)
I tried it on a Win 8 Laptop in Win 95 and Win 98 compatibility modes and it installs and actually runs the game, but with severe display corruption - moving figures produce black patches on static backgrounds and fast moving scenes produce large areas of black. I've tried tweaking every graphics option I can find in both the game installer and the PC itself, but there's no change.
I have some ancient PC hardware lying around, so I tried it first on a trusty Windows XP machine (Pentium 4 and NVIDIA GForce 6200 graphics) and the installer runs- but no joy running the game itself
I tried running an MS Virtual machine on that PC to emulate Win98, but it seems to emulate the graphics card - so no joy
Next I tried an AMD Semplon 3100 with VIA/S3G Unichrome PRO IGP graphics. I put in a new harddrive and put a fresh install of Windows 98SP2 on it and the installer runs (it asked me to reinstall Direct X - which I did with v9c) and the opening menu screen appears but the PC crashes when I try to run the game.
Happy Adventure Tourism
I actually still have the original Pentium2 PC that ran the game on a 3Dfx Voodoo2 card, but at the moment it's completely dead so I need to find a replacement PSU before I can even try troubleshooting that one. I can't swap that 3Dfx card into the AMD machine as the AGP slots are different (3.3 Volt and 1.5 Volt flavours..)
Anyone got any bright ideas?
*** The readme file lists the specs as:
Happy Adventure Freddy Coloring Pages
Minimum Configuration
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Pentium 166 MMX
32Mb RAM
3Dfx Voodoo 1 or 2 graphics accelerator
or Direct X compatible cards
CD-ROM PC, Windows 95, 98 and NT compatible
CD-ROM drive 12x or faster
Keyboard or gamepad
SVGA monitor
16-bit Video card
16-bit sound card or higher
Minimum installation requirements
100Mb space on your hard drive
Recommended Configuration
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Pentium 200 MMX or higher
64Mb RAM
Obviously, the faster your processor and the more RAM you have,
the better the game's performance.
3D graphics cards supported by the game
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NVidia:
Riva 128
Riva 128 zx
Riva TNT
Matrox:
G100
G200
ATI:
Rage Pro (4Mo - 8Mo)
3Dfx:
Voodoo Graphics
Voodoo II
Voodoo Rush
Voodoo Banshee
Rendition:
V2200
Intel:
I740
3DLabs:
Permedia 2
Permedia 3
S3:
Savage 3D
Happy Adventure Newfoundland
( Moved from other/unknown)