"Bypass" hardware detection (to get S/W to start)

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Hi All,

I bought Prince of Persia, Warrior Within going on 2 years ago now, and Two Thrones just over 1 year ago. At the time they ran great.

Now, however, I'm finding the games won't boot now even though they pass all hardware tests. The problem, it seems, is that they don't recognise the new graphics card/processor.

So, I'm looking for a way to either:

A) Just get these games working or

B) Trace what functions in what DLL's they call, and "emulate" my old graphics/processor in the same way 3DAnalyzer cheats the graphics system (create DLLs with the same name containing the same function, with one modified...)

Do any of you have any pointers here? I'm in no rush, but these are games I quite enjoy playing on occasion...

It's a shame. I've been losing faith in Ubisoft for quite some time, then when they ditched Starforce, I was happy, but it seems, the developers of these games can't code a proper init....