TheOutrider

Hi there! I recently assembled a computer for my uncle; it's a P2-350 running Windows 2000 SP4 with DirectX 9.0b (yeah, overkill, I know, but it's the only DX version I had a full installer handy of ). Now there's this little seven year old boy they have, and he obviously wants to use the machine for playing games. He has two games so far; Autobahn Raser (which is crap IMHO, but works just fine) and Hugo 6 (which is crap as well and doesn't. Ah yes, back then when we didn't have any taste in games...). Here is the official Hugo web site for folks who don't have the slightest clue what I'm talking about. Originally, Hugo 6 didn't even start, which was easily remedied by creating a shortcut to it that was set to Win95 compatibility mode. The game starts just nicely and the menu displays, but upon starting a game, another problem pops up. The image is horribly distorted and overlaying itself a couple of times. I'm fairly sure as to the cause of the problem - I've seen the problem so very often in many different games, it's usually the game setting a refresh rate that the monitor can't handle. The problem is that Hugo has absolutely no useful options related to this, and I have no idea which resolution it's running in either. This is where you come in - any ideas? Thanks in Advance, Florian

http://dosbox.sf.net/ is quite fine for old games, but it's kind of slow (about 486 performance on my Athlon XP2000). Alternately, http://ntvdm.cjb.net/ makes many DOS games run in 2k or XP as well.

[edit] Problem solved - I just solved the problem The Simple Way. Copied both CDs to the hard disk, made another folder for the CD2 speech.clu, edited sword.inf to reflect the directories I copied it to, created the save game directory (it will crash if you try to save and didn't do that!) and played. Works fine. [/edit]

I didn't have any problems installing Thief Gold (German Version) on my comp. Win2k SP3 here, and I also installed TG without problems on Win2k SP2 before. Weird that -lgntforce doesn't work either. That fixed any Thief Gold installation problems on win2k I've encountered yet. I just ran into the same problem on a friend's comp (Win2k SP2), though. I don't have the slightest idea why this occurs. Some people from a Thief-related IRC channel told me that applying UnSafeDisc to the CD (or something like that) might work. Gonna try that with my friend's comp right away.