Disciples Sacred Lands - not playing movies

Anyone else had this problem? I just picked up this little gem
recently (always wanted to see where Disciples II came from), and when
I installed it I got multiple "this program was written for Win95/
Win98/NT4" warnings. The install completed fine, and the game runs
fine, but the movies don't play. They're there on the CD, and I can
play them manually with RADTools (smackply.exe - they're SMK files),
so I know they're fine, but they won't play in the game.

I'm assuming this has something to do with XP, but I can't find a
forum post or bug report anywhere. Does anyone have any knowledge or
experience of this?

I've got the Gold Edition, which I think is already patched to 1.1 (at
least, I tried to install the only patch I could find, and it couldn't
install). Are there any other patches I should be using?

Thanks in advance,

CC

On Oct 18, 5:14 am, magnate <chr....RemoveThis@dbass.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Anyone else had this problem? I just picked up this little gem
> recently (always wanted to see where Disciples II came from), and when
> I installed it I got multiple "this program was written for Win95/
> Win98/NT4" warnings. The install completed fine, and the game runs
> fine, but the movies don't play. They're there on the CD, and I can
> play them manually with RADTools (smackply.exe - they're SMK files),
> so I know they're fine, but they won't play in the game.
>
> I'm assuming this has something to do with XP, but I can't find a
> forum post or bug report anywhere. Does anyone have any knowledge or
> experience of this?
>
> I've got the Gold Edition, which I think is already patched to 1.1 (at
> least, I tried to install the only patch I could find, and it couldn't
> install). Are there any other patches I should be using?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> CC

Have you tried running in Win '95 compatibility mode?