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Used the same fullscreen trick as others here
It's even possible to include a CD install of Creatures 3 to work with a bit of registry hacking
Apart from the Windowed mode issue the game works just fine and plays like it did from its original release. No noticable issues.
In order to launch the game I needed to edit the user.cfg (under steamapps/common/Creatures Docking Station/Docking Station/). Editing the fullscreen line from 0 to 1, as in Windowed mode the game would complain about 16-bit color mode and fail to start.
Windowed mode does not work as it will give a 16-bit color mode error.
FullScreen 1in user.cfg in game folder
Cannot run in (default) windowed mode
Works fine with a small tweak.
Game complains about color depth unless ran in fullscreen mode.
Go into the game folder and open up user.cfg, simply change FullScreen from 0 to 1 and save the file. The game works fine for me after this minor change.
Crashes on startup, even with Xephyr
It can't run out of the box because it needs to run in 16-bit colour mode. But using Xephyr you can run it inside a nested X server at 16 bit, so that's fine. However as soon as it starts it crashes with a runtime error: "abnormal program termination".
I used Xephyr to start an X server with 16 bit color depth. The game will not run with other color depths.
Before starting the game, I run the following command:
Xephyr :1 -ac -screen 1024x768x16 -glamor
In Steam, I set the game's launch options to:
DISPLAY=:1 %command%
