Many Pocket PC 2000 devices (earlier Ipaq and others) will say something like "unable to find the application or some of its components" when you click the game icon.

This is because these devices to not have "Gapi", the game library, built in as part of the OS.

All you have to do is drop a file called gx.dll into your device's Windows folder (use Activesync to browse to My Device->Windows, and drop it in).

I've attached the file to this post. Need more help? Just let us know.

Arthur

I would personally recommend placing this file in the appropriate program folder, rather than in the \Windows folder.

PPC2002 devices include a copy of the DLL in the \Windows folder just in case an application uses it doesn't include one in the installation package, but it's usually preferred for an application to install it's own copy of the GAPI DLL in the same location as the executable. This is partly because there a re a couple of different versions of the GAPI DLL out there, and it helps to prevent problems due to a version mismatch

When placed in the same folder as the executable for the game, it should detect it there first (and only look in \Windows if it doesn't find it there)

Kieren

Thanks Kieren!

Darn didn't know would work with Pocket Pc I was thinking of buying that one for my ipaq. Got pc version instead. But I do love the game anyway.
Was talking about VV

The PDA version of VV (Village Sim) is available only for Palm. See this post.