The Good Old Games (That I can't play because I now have XP)

I'm new. So please don't yell if all this has already been convered. If it has just link me to some useful info. THnks. Remember all those good, slightly older games that you wish you could play? I do. I've been playing most of them up until I...




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#138055 - 04/22/04 02:49 AM The Good Old Games (That I can't play because I now have XP)
Diamond_Grey Offline
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I'm new. So please don't yell if all this has already been convered. If it has just link me to some useful info. THnks.

Remember all those good, slightly older games that you wish you could play? I do. I've been playing most of them up until I got a computer with Windows XP.

The list is as follows (with the problems):
Master of Orion 2 (lags then crashes)
Mechwarrior 2 Mercenaries (installs but does not run at all)
Mechwarrior 3 (wont install due to ?sound compatability?)
Aliens Vs. Predator (installs but fails to play smoothly also sound problems)
Descent 3 (does not install)
Fallout 1&2 (minor graphics and sound problems then crashes)
Sid Meyer's Alpha Centauri (where to start... everything?)

If anyone can help I would be very proud of them and their incredible knowledge.
-Chad

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#159594 - 03/07/05 06:12 PM Re: The Good Old Games (That I can't play because I now have XP)
GoreTher Offline
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Registered: 01/27/05
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Master of Orion 2 (lags then crashes) - there is a patch 1.41 I think should work and try the compatability thing in xp it's realy good or disable sound alltogether

Mechwarrior 2 Mercenaries (installs but does not run at all)
Mechwarrior 3 (wont install due to ?sound compatability?)
it's an issue with all mechwarrior series including Mechwarrior 4 and it's definetly the sound drivers check with their official site it says something about this, but i've solved once with newer sound drivers
Aliens Vs. Predator (installs but fails to play smoothly also sound problems)- you just wrote sound problems, so it's obvious
Descent 3 (does not install) - dunno never played it
Fallout 1&2 (minor graphics and sound problems then crashes) - ditto
Sid Meyer's Alpha Centauri (where to start... everything?)- my favourite...there are two patches get the one for xp on www.dlh.net in the alpha.ini or alphacentauri.ini moddify add the line forceoldvoxelalgorithm=1 it still gives you that error but works or move the file sound.dll and try...but if the last one works ... then you've got some real sound issues ... and no help there ... sry
hope that answers your questions...

any other questions
mirceavalentin@gmail.com

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#159920 - 03/14/05 11:06 AM Re: The Good Old Games (That I can't play because I now have XP)
Deesse Offline
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Registered: 03/14/05
Posts: 5
Click on Compatibility above and you can check if they work in XP.

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