For future reference on running other old games on Windows 10, there's a pretty extensive list of games with DRM: see this forum post. It may or may not have helped me with my Black and White installation and I'm posting it here as a potential resource.Īlso, since I'm in the business of posting copious amounts of links related to Black & White, here are links to the villager banter and soccer add-ons. Please note I take NO RESPONSIBILITY for the content of this website. Not that I would ever encourage pirating a game that isn't available anywhere for digital download and contains DRM that prevents play on modern operating systems, but there is a website dedicated to making tools that help backup old games (see here) that may prove helpful. You can get a no-cd fix (although I recommend patching Black and White to version 1.2 first), but as y'all probably know, no-cd fixes (aka cracks) are notoriously shady and virus/trojan prone. However, SafeDisc has known vulnerabilities which is why Microsoft pulled support for it in the first place.

If you have the original Black and White disc, you can allow SafeDisc drivers to run in Windows 10 by installing them and signing them yourself (see third post here for details). To get around this issue you have two options: Turns out it does - it has SafeDisc, which is NOT supported in Windows 10.

Then, based on that information, you'll need to update, rollback, or uninstall your display driver or update or uninstall the app.

To determine whether a display driver or app is causing the problem, check to see if Task Manager flickers. If your screen suddenly turns black and white when you’re using your Windows 10 PC, especially when you’re copying files using the shortcut key Ctrl + C, you may accidentally trigger the color filters feature by pressing its shortcut key (The Windows logo key + Ctrl + C). Screen flickering in Windows 10 is usually caused by a display driver issue or incompatible app. Given that Black and White was published by EA and released during The Great DRM Travesty of the 2000s, I had a hunch it had some sort of DRM on it. Fix 1: Turn off color filters in Windows Settings. I spent 1-2 hours with the same issue and finally figured out what the problem was: for security reasons, Windows 10 does not allow DRM protected games from modifying system files (see this article for more information).

Thanks for your post and for the helpful answers in the comments that help narrow my search for the issue.

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