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April 16th, 2003, 07:50 PM
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Re: WinXP Pro & 1.84
Try not to run things in 95, 98 or ME compatibility mode. Win XP is Win 2000 with a facelift, a few other minor changes, and no DOS kernal. Nearly everything can run in 2000, so using 2000 compatibilty mode should work for everything except some really old DOS games, which you should try 95 mode for, as 95 is the most DOS-like OS you can pick.
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April 16th, 2003, 08:56 PM
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Re: WinXP Pro & 1.84
All Versions of SEIV from demo mode on up - lockup on my laptop with the ATI 9000 video card. So the problem lies there it would seem.
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April 16th, 2003, 09:27 PM
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Re: WinXP Pro & 1.84
In all compatibility modes? Hmm... you know what, there is some issue with network protocols on laptops with SE4 or something. Search for threads on them here.
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April 17th, 2003, 02:29 AM
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Re: WinXP Pro & 1.84
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Anyone haveing diff with 1.84 and WinXP Pro? My game keeps crashing.
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Nope it runs fine. Most XP issues end up being driver problems.
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April 17th, 2003, 02:50 AM
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Re: WinXP Pro & 1.84
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Originally posted by Elowan:
I'm going to try Fyron's idea.
It seems to run fine on my desktop but craps out on my laptop. Both have WinXP Pro but the LT is using an ATI video card and a different CPU and RAM (1 gig instead of 512 megs) - so the machines are different.
Running SEIV in CM as Win98/ME also failed.
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Shouldn't happen, what are the laptop specs?
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April 17th, 2003, 05:42 PM
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Re: WinXP Pro & 1.84
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quote:
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Anyone haveing diff with 1.84 and WinXP Pro? My game keeps crashing.
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Nope it runs fine. Most XP issues end up being driver problems.
Too true! In my case it appears to have been the ATI driver. I DL'ed a new one and all seems well now. We'll see.
On another note - this LT is a Dell 8200 and I'm not sure I'll buy another. Their tech support sucks of late. This is the second time I've had video driver problems with Dell products. On my 8100 - they never could solve the problem via phone and finally (after 1 year) agreed with me and accepted the unit back for a full refit. The chip was bad as I had been stating all along.
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