Re: SPWW2 keeps crashing
Yes Andy: It is the old, early, now unsupported DOS based version. In order to get games to my "gamer" I download them to my online machine, burn discs and then upload from the disc to the Inspiron. These games had been running off the hard drive for several years. No problems. No confusions. I know what I have and know what it is and how (in the shallowest of senses) it works.
The I-8000 developed a "scaling" problem that effected the gaming windows (centering them and shrinking them). This happened on this internally loaded game as well as two others, SPWAW and PG2. After a Bios (A23) download and fiddling with the NVIDIA (GeForce2Go) settings that is mostly solved (every time the machine shuts down I have to re-set, but I hope that is another story). In any event now my ancient and doddering SPWW2v7.01 crashes/freezes after only a few minutes/moves without fail. I can usually do one or two (or more) moves and save but it will freeze in the save window with the same likelihood as in the game board. I have really loved this and hate to lose it, at least on this computer. It still runs just fine on an older I-3500 with Windows 98 O/S. I discovered that even though it does not require the disc to run, if the disc is in it will load directly from that (?) and I will not get the inane DOS prompt that opened the game after a pair of 'fail" inputs. Not that that really bothered me.
In any event I have uninstalled the v7.01 in the event that it may have gotten corrupted. Even tried re-installing to, guess what, no avail.
I have since loaded the newest Windows version of SPWW2 and will soon see how that works.
I was/am simply seeking help in resurrecting my old SPWW2v7.01 on this machine, if possible.
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