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compatibility on winxp and older games

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Posted 14 April 2005 - 10:04 AM


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Posted 14 April 2005 - 11:40 AM

List the games that your having trouble with.
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Posted 14 April 2005 - 05:05 PM

Rogue Spear and Unreal Tournament
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Posted 14 April 2005 - 05:35 PM

Why do not they work? Do they give any errors?
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Posted 14 April 2005 - 09:15 PM

they lag and warp in single and multiplayer, new games work fine
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Posted 17 April 2005 - 06:48 PM

hey guys i was just on another forum and a guy told me that if i had win98 and got the win xp ugrade version that things would work out, think that'll work?
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Posted 17 April 2005 - 07:06 PM

No, upgrading from XP is no different from doing a clean install except with the upgrade you have the option of reverting back to 98. It does not affect compatibility.
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Posted 17 April 2005 - 11:39 PM

oh ok. how easy is the reverting back to 98? do you mean uninstalling and all that or just a matter of clicking a button so to speak
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Posted 17 April 2005 - 11:52 PM

Good question. I've never done it since I always do clean installs. I have had to clean people's systems that did do upgrades from 9x to XP. Man what a horrible experience. mad
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Posted 18 April 2005 - 12:13 AM

lol maybe i wont try the upgrade then. so without installing win98 my best bet to get rogue spear to work properly would be virtual pc?
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Posted 18 April 2005 - 01:30 AM

IIRC, both of the games worked fine for me in 2000/XP but it's been quite some time. Can you explain the prob in more detail? I'll see if I can test them tonight.
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Posted 18 April 2005 - 02:06 AM

in the rogue spear lobby for single and multi player my mouse cursor freezes for a couple seconds as i move it or whenever i have to click on something like to change a weapon or to go to the next page and when the game starts online everyone warpes only i get it. single player will also lag a bit.

unreal tournament was just super fast, i would stop and the screen would sort of "twitch" and then i would ressume running at lightning speeds.

i tried right clicking on desktop/properties/settings/advanced/troubleshoot and scrolled down the acceleration so that all DirectDraw and Direct 3D accelerations, as well as all cursor and advanced drawing accelerations were disabled. This has fixed my cursor from freezing in the debriefing lobby, but the cursor leaves a trail instead. lol the graphics look like crap and i run around faster than usual. and online game warps madly still.

i've pretty much tried all the compatibility options

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Posted 20 April 2005 - 11:23 AM

upgrades from 9x to XP its always best to do a clean
install of XP Less problems in the future.

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Posted 21 April 2005 - 12:26 AM

ya i've been hearing that a lot lately
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Posted 21 April 2005 - 02:18 AM

ya i've been hearing that a lot lately
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