Help!!! >___< How to play DOS4GW games in WIN2000???

[Bamboo 0]

Please help!!!

[adamvjackson 0]

Dual boot with MS-DOS or PC-DOS... I think that's the only way, unless a win32 .exe exists for the game, ie, Doom95.

[adamvjackson 0]

What game are you trying to run?

[Bamboo 0]

pray for death, theme hospital, settlers 2, street racers, zone raiders, faery tale 2, speed haste.......etc.

[adamvjackson 0]

Have you tried Virtual PC or VMware Workstation? Both have evaluation licenses available for free, varied between 30-45 days... If you haven't tried running the games under that, I would do that first.

 

Depending upon your success, you may really want to consider dual booting with a version of DOS. I saw on ebay copies (with a license, of course) of MS-DOS 6.xx for under US $10. That may be the best solution.

 

Perhaps some others here (DosFreak) would have other suggestions.

 

Have you searched in the compatibility database? Are those games listed?

[adamvjackson 0]

Here are the URLs for the trial software that I mentioned above:

 

VMware Workstation 3.2

 

Connectix Virtual PC 5.1

 

Give those a go, and let us know how you make out.

[Marktait 0]

Settlers 2 works in XP along with Theme Hospital are you sure these do not work in 2k?

[adamvjackson 0]

If you have SP2/SP3 installed, you can enable compatibility mode, similar to that which is included in Windows XP by following these directions:

 

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;279792

[Bamboo 0]

thanks for your reply, here are some results of running DOS4GW games in my win2000:

 

1 = win2000, 2 = win2000+vdmsound

 

speed haste - 1) windows freeze 2) blank screen

settlers 2 - 1) windows freeze 2) no vesa drivers found

death rally - 1) windows freeze 2) no vesa drivers found

pray for death - 1) windows freeze 2) ok!

faery tale - 1) windows freeze 2) attempt to access vesa driver failed

street racer - 1) windows freeze 2) can play but very poor resolution

 

please help!

[pr0iv2 0]

no vesa problem: to fix this make sure it runs in full screen

if you do a custom fix with the VDMSound advanced options its in there

and that option is in win2k too if you right click and go to properties

 

speed problem: dont use VDMSound, use soundFX

 

also you may want to try

http://www.scitechsoft.com/products/enterprise/free_titles.html

univbe was used in a lot of dos stuff (its in display doctor too)

maybe the newer version will work for dos stuff in 2k

PLUS THE OLD STUFF IS NOW FREE!!!!!

even if you dont need it, download it anyway

you cant pass up free software!

there is no more support for it though

 

also if anyone knows why both sound programs crash ROTT, and duke nukem 3d, and shadow warrior tell me

[DosFreak 2]

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also if anyone knows why both sound programs crash ROTT, and duke nukem 3d, and shadow warrior tell me

Search these forums and vogons.zetafleet.com and you shall find your answer.

[Bamboo 0]

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no vesa problem: to fix this make sure it runs in full screen
if you do a custom fix with the VDMSound advanced options its in there
and that option is in win2k too if you right click and go to properties

When I try to edit the properties, I got this error:

=============================================
Debug Error!

Programs: C:\WINNT\Explorer.exe

Damage: After normal block (#6887) at 0x02425610

(Press Retry to debug the application)
=============================================

Then I clicked on Retry and Ignore to debug the application, but EXPLORER.EXE generated errors again and restarted itself one more time.

[pr0iv2 0]

if you cant click right click properties...

then you must have a problem with your installation of windows

either a virus, missing dll, etc

1 word, reinstall.

if that doesnt work, youre screwed