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Hey guys, I just downloaded Secret of the Scarlet Hand, and everything installed perfectly, but now when I try to play it, I get the error "InitDirectDraw() - We're sorry - your system cannot play the correct display mode for this game. Game shutting down." I'm running Windows 8.1 with DirectX version 11. I'm assuming the error has something to do with playing such an old game on such a new machine. I've had the opposite issue many times--trying to play new ND games on Windows XP, and it was usually fi...

(Possible Spoilers) I got to the hospital part for the first time and put something up on the corkboard and dialogue flashed in the box for a second and then the dialogue box just went blank yet the game is still acting like talking is going on but i do not hear or see anything. It is not letting me progress. I am confused. I don't want to start over....

So, I'm on Windows 11 and of course there's going to be issues running this game. However, I've done the research on it and I've tried everything and I cannot get the game to run. I've tried running it in compatibility mode by going into properties, but the compatibility tab is not there. I've also gone the long way by searching for it through the compatibility troubleshooter in settings, but an error came up that said "Catastrophic failure." What am I doing wrong? Is there another way to fix this, or shou...

I'm trying to stream this game for some friends to watch as I play, but the only way to capture the video is for it to be in windowed mode. There is no option for it in the options menu, so is there another way?