shihonage

Aikido, 3 years. (I check ntcompatible everyday, just dont post much)

Your solution would be ICQ Lite, MSN Messenger, and Yahoo Messenger.

DOSFREAK is 100% correct. XP's tauted MSDOS sound emulation is completely useless. Also constantly fighting with the OS and guessing what's going on behind my back lead to the kind of frustration and paranoia that... I quickly switched back to Win2k.

Does anyone know why Fighting Force immediately crashes under Windows 2000 ? I suspect it has something to do with EIDOS's ESCAPE player, which installs two, apparently NT-unfriendly files, WINSTR.DLL and WINPLAY.DLL . My question is, are there any workarounds for this ? I've tried to find updated versions of said DLL files, or patches for Fighting Force, and found neither. Could it be the fact that I was running the game off an NTFS partition ? It crashes as soon as I run it - no display mode changes, nothing. I've tried all the options in setup, Win95 compatibility mode TAB, lowering sound acceleration, different versions of 3dfx drivers- 1.00, 1.04 and the one from x3dfx.com . When I don't let it access the two WIN****.DLL files, it quits by complaining that it can't find them... Any ideas ?