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Geek Culture / Win98 games on XP?

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 31st Jan 2007 20:29
How do I get my old Win98 games to run on my XP PC, I have some old great/awesome games for Win98 that I never completed, like Quake 2 and The Longest Journey. I installed both of them, neither worked, I ran them under these compatibility mode of Windows 98 and like everything else I've tried that worked under Win98 it didn't work.

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Posted: 31st Jan 2007 20:36
must be something your doing wrong because I have no problem getting my 98 games and even older games to run on my win XP pc not long ago I started playing Commander Keen for the first time in ages it worked fine on my PC

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Posted: 31st Jan 2007 20:38
I can run DOS games here without any emulator or problem.

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Posted: 31st Jan 2007 21:06
Should run fine, only thing I generally have a problem with is some dos games that i need to run with Dosbox

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Posted: 31st Jan 2007 21:08
Longest Journey should work, as I'm playing through it on XP right now

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Posted: 31st Jan 2007 21:23
Odd, when I run Longest Journey, I get the Win32 error and on installation, it tells me that the game was designed for Win 95/98 and may not run. For Quake 2, can't remember the error.

As for DOS games, they run fine except they have no sound.

I know I'm paranoid, but did I pick up a really crap copy of XP, I mean most of my problems shouldn't happen, like my God aweful performance

I'll restart the PC and try again for TLJ.

Cheers.

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Posted: 31st Jan 2007 21:39
Quake 2 should run fine; check your video settings etc. (It runs fine here at least)


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Posted: 31st Jan 2007 21:54
God awful performance? No, that's normal.


Since the other one was scaring you guys so much...
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Posted: 31st Jan 2007 21:58
Sep, did you try setting the emulation mode for the exe?
You can set the game exe to run as older windows versions

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Quote: "I ran them under these compatibility mode of Windows 98 and like everything else I've tried that worked under Win98 it didn't work"



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Posted: 1st Feb 2007 00:19
Quote: "Quake 2 should run fine; check your video settings etc. (It runs fine here at least)"


I'll try that, but I find it quite odd that it all works for you guys, but nothing does for me. I don't suppose there are any emulations for XP that allow you to run things as Windows 98 products?(Not referring to virtual PC or anything) I mean there are products that are classed as non-XP compatible, like Discworld Noir, so I would have assumed some programmer at some point would have cooked something up.

Quote: "Sep, did you try setting the emulation mode for the exe?
You can set the game exe to run as older windows versions"


I'll just ditto David R, perhaps if there aren't any solutions, I'll refer to a more Windows OS specialist forum, but their last solution to something was 'buy more ram' You expect nerdy answers, but get what you were hoping not to do

Quote: "God awful performance? No, that's normal."


Reason why most people hate computers then? Actually I've compared my machine to those with same/similar spec and they run much better, the difference between my computer and my sister's is that hers has a faster processor and mine has a better graphics card, yet she has no performance issues. With a typical 0-3% of processing power used I can't see my processor to be the problem.

But that's another problem, it had it's thread and the only solutions were more RAM or new computer

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Posted: 1st Feb 2007 07:58
I use virtual PC. Think it's free from MS now too. As long as you have a windows 98 full installation disk (or a 95 full install and 98 upgrade obviously etc) then you can create a virtual machine with 98 on it. Appears in a window (or full screen) and works great for me. I've used it with the programming language DIV which doesn't work in XP. I prefer it to dual boot as it keeps everything nicely pocketed away in a single file (as in the whole "machine" is just one single file) that shouldn't be able to touch your main XP installation. Oh, and it ran really smooth, while DOSBox (a lot of people use to play old games) worked fine but was very slow. Also no reason why you can't have many virtual machines if you have the operating systems (3.11,95,98 etc).

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Posted: 1st Feb 2007 10:22
You have tried
Right click - Properties - Compatilty - Run program on diffrent OS (or something )

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Posted: 1st Feb 2007 12:35 Edited at: 1st Feb 2007 12:35
I remember having loads of probs with old games. Loads of win95 and 98 games didn't run, including mech warrior, screamer etc etc. That was quite a long time ago though, so perhaps all these service packs and fixes have addressed legacy compatibility issues.

Anyways, you're not alone. I had many games I couldn't run on XP - all flogged on ebay now.


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Posted: 1st Feb 2007 12:51 Edited at: 1st Feb 2007 12:52
The Longest Journey Work-around

... You didn't even search at all, did you?

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Or, any one of these threads that have "XP" in the title should help.

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Posted: 1st Feb 2007 16:55
Google killed my dog, I can't be expected to trust it!

Cheers, Jess, I'll try it. With the compatibility one, I tried it, except for Win98, although I personally wouldn't have thought it would make a difference, being a Win98 game, but no harm in trying, wouldn't be the first time I've been wrong

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Posted: 1st Feb 2007 19:15
http://home.quicknet.nl/qn/prive/blankendaalr/dbgl/#download

GO here, its called DOSbox for those really super old games...

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Posted: 1st Feb 2007 20:03
Right, TLJ is working, quite odd that it liked it as Win95 and not 98. And I'll use DOSBox for the older DOS games that don't run.

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Posted: 1st Feb 2007 20:35
Personally I always found DOSBox ran really sluggish while Virtual PC ran very smoothly (even on an old 700Mhz laptop). With VPC being free now then is now big deal to whip up an old 95 or 98 install disk from an old duff computer.

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Posted: 1st Feb 2007 21:09
True, if my Dad hasn't discarded the disks when going XP, but if he has, well it DOS Box I'm sure Win98 will run well at 128mb ram (Being half of my current ram, as my PC likes using half of it when running no visible applications, including explorer.

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