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I spotted this game going cheap in a software store today, so I picked it up, under the presumption that it worked under NT 4.0 (which it does according to this site). I tried running it straight off - no joy, it refused to install under NT. Then I tried using the "lgtntforce" switch, as detailed on this site - still no joy. I copied it to my hard disc and modified the "os.dat" file - still no luck. Then I tried setwin95.cmd with imagecfg off of the Windows NT CD. All I got was "IMAGECFG - unable to map and load executable". So I tried running the FlightII executable from the CD, which worked up to a point. I got to the screen where it says "Populating San Fransisco Airspace" and then all I got was a black screen. I waited and waited, but still no joy. Can anyone shed some light on how I could get this game to function under NT, seeing as it is supposed to be possible. I have the unofficial DX5 patch, BTW. Thanks in advance.

Hi. This may or may not be a compatibility problem (and it may take a while to explain), but it is driving me mad trying to solve it. Please help! I'm running Windows NT 4.0 Workstation on a PIII450 with 128Mb RAM and a USR Sportster Flash V.90 External modem (which I flash upgraded to V.90 myself). Windows NT is installed on the first 4Gb partition of my 8.4Gb hard drive, and SuSe Linux 6.1 is installed on the other three partitions. The above configuration has been working perfectly since last September, but just this weekend, I have been having some strange problems. On Saturday morning, I booted up the machine, loaded Windows NT and logged in as normal. I received an error message telling me that "at least one" service had failed to start up. On inspection of the event log, I found that Remote Access had failed to start, since it could not find one of it's configured devices (my USR Sporster on COM 2). This means that I cannot use Dial-up Networking, or anything else that relies on Remote Access, to access the Internet, so I was, understandably, a little annoyed. I dug out my Windows NT setup disks and installation CD-ROM and repaired the installation. This worked for a time. I re-installed Service Pack 5 from CD and rebooted and then re-installed my graphics and sound drivers and rebooted again. Then I re-installed the drivers for my modem (which I had obtained a while ago from 3Com's site). Strangely (or maybe not) I found that I could not re-install Internet Explorer 5 (it told me that a previous setup operation had not been completed). After a few more reboots, The problem with the Remote Access occurred again, and I found that when I tried to open the Modem section of the Control Panel, nothing happened. So, I reformatted Drive C and reinstalled Windows NT. Again, I reapplied Service Pack 5 and my graphics, modem and sound drivers. I then installed Netscape, Winamp and Microsoft Flight Simulator 98. On trying to install IE5, I was again told that a previous setup operation had not been completed. I deleted some IE setup text files from C:\WINNT, rebooted and it installed flawlessly. After a couple of reboots, the problems with Remote Access reoccured, and I am currently unable to access the Modem properties page in the Control Panel. Remote Access is obviously unable to access modem information as well, as the error states that it cannot find the configured devices. This means I am currently without Internet access under Windows NT. I am at a loss as to what to do next. Please could someone offer some advice?

After re-installing NT yet again, I think I have found the problem - namely Flight Shop Converter 98, which is used to convert aircraft designed for old versions of MS Flight Sim for use with Flight Sim 98. I'll add it to the compatibility pages.

I'm posting using Netscape under SuSe Linux on the same machine.

Yes, the modem is turned on before the computer is powered up.

I've got a PIII-450 with 128Mb RAM and an nVidia TNT 2 32Mb graphics card, running Windows NT Workstation 4.0. I was wondering if anyone could recommend any games which are compatible with NT and will give good performance with the TNT card (I already have GLQuake, Flight Sim 98 and F/A-18 Hornet 3). Thanks in advance

I've had a similair problem. I've got a Microsoft Sidewinder Standard joystick which I plug into the Game/MIDI port on the motherboard (I have an ESS Audiodrive 3D sound card which is on the motherboard). I've tried using both the Analogue Joystick drivers and the Sidewinder Pro drivers, but when I go to calibrate it, there's no response. I've recently upgraded to Service Pack 6a, but I've also tried with a clean system, with Service Pack 3 installed and with Service Pack 5 installed - nothing. Can anyone shed any light on this?

I've often considered buying a 3DFX Voodoo card in addition to TNT 2. Apart from having GLide support under NT, it's also better supported by Linux. The only disadvantage is that it can't do 32-bit 3D, but I can get around this with the TNT 2. Obviously, I'd have to get a PCI model, as the TNT 2 is sitting in the AGP slot right now. Maybe I'm being a bit thick, but is there anyway I can configure NT to use the TNT 2 card for 2D and OpenGL, but still recognise the Voodoo card when I want to play 3DFX games?