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Running old games on XP?
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| Taranis |
So I'm trying to run a copy of an old RTS I got my hands on (Rival Realms) on Windows XP. At first it wouldn't even install, so I managed to get that working by running it in compatability mode. However if I try to play it in compatability mode the game won't run. My disk spins for a moment and nothing happens, though if I ctrl-alt-del and look in my process manager, I can see the game's process there. If I try to run it without compatability, the games starts to come up as normal, my screen goes black, and then a 'protection error' box comes up, though I can't read the actual error message because it won't let me alt-tab into it. It's a Windows 95/98 game, and the demo version of it ran perfectly, which I found kind of weird.
Any idea's on how to get this working? Not a huge deal, but it'd be cool to give it a spin for old times sake. |
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| Taranis |
| It's not a dos game :( |
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| Sunsnail |
| I had this trouble with Black and White :( |
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| SuspicionVandit |
| quote: | Originally posted by Taranis
It's not a dos game :( |
how about right-click the .exe and then (i think) go to the compatability tab and run it through win95 / win 98 |
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| Xtracktor |
| wow! hopefully this works with mechwarrior 2 :D |
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| Fledz |
| Have you tried using ScummVM? It probably won't run it but it's worth a shot. |
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| Taranis |
| quote: | | how about right-click the .exe and then (i think) go to the compatability tab and run it through win95 / win 98 |
Yeah I tried that, it managed to get the game installed, but won't make it run. |
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| _Nut_ |
| quote: | Originally posted by Taranis
Yeah I tried that, it managed to get the game installed, but won't make it run. |
I manged to get kings quest to work with the make compatible with 95/98 and dropping the screen res down to 800x600 with 16bit color.
(but now that I think about it... it was a DOS game) |
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