FIX Game start 2024

[Quarzup]

Regular installation, 1st start, crashed. It just ain't running

compatible mode in windows 11 didn't worked, verifying game files in steam didn't work.

FIX: The game starts if you try 5 times and confirm to any questions from windows and then press a few times 'enter' or 'esc' at beginning when you have a black screen. Then simple skip the error-message and you are in the game. good luck :-)

[nafcom]

A small addendum here: What actually appears to happen, if you try often enough, instead of "nice1.exe is experiencing an error and has to close" you get an "Unknown error while trying to iniciate MCI Device" error. which then re-draws the window and you are in the game.

However in Windows 11 24H2 you have no mouse or any way of selecting any option and a few seconds in, it will leave full screen and it won't re-draw the window ever again.

All hitting "esc" or "Enter" does, is prompting the "nice1.exe is experiencing an error and has to close" error in the background without you seeing much of it.

If you however try again and you are lucky, the mouse arrow appears and you are lucky and can play the game. The reason all this is happening is, it tries to initialize the intro of the game which fails, and after 4 times of trying, the game appears to give up on trying and falls back to showing you the main menu instead.

It appears the Nice1-4.exes start the game using different directX compatibility layers, for me simply starting Nice3.exe worked flawlessly.

You can edit the "game.bat" to call this instead of the default nice1, then the game will also run via Steam's Play button.