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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

I had the same problem and couldn't solve it, so I installed Win 98 and then the game it worked well so I installed a fresh copy of Win XP after erasing Win 98 and then played the game without any problems...but if you are desperat enough you could try to search the registry and cleanup any trace of MM8 and then run setup.exe to configure it again, but i'm not sure since i tried this with MM7 with very limited succes...

I had the same problem but since i got Shadow of death which for some reason didn't work under XP or other NT system I used the WoG update and all worked perfect since, but you need Shadow of death to do this..