Getting older PC games to play on my WinXP machine

Post by **marurun** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 9:54 pm

Fastbilly, can you get Crusader: No Remorse to work? It's supposed to be the grumpiest DOS-based game in existence.

Post by **fastbilly1** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 11:57 pm

I dont know if I have that one, Ill see what I can do.

Post by **fastbilly1** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 6:32 pm

Ok I copied the disc to a folder on my c: drive - folder Z for my purposes.

Fired up dosbox, got in the C directory, then typed:
Mount d C:\z
typed d:\ and I was in the install directory for the game.
Then did a normal FULL install - it turns out if you do a partial things can get flaky.
And I was off.

Forgive the poor quality of my response - I am still sick from this past weekend.

Post by **baphomet_irl** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 9:18 pm

fastbilly1 wrote:Ive heard that aswell Baphomet. But I have also seen Vista BSOD when it tried to run winROTT and Carmegeddon. Well the Harddrive needed to be reset after my friend tried to open the Carmegeddon folder. I guess Vista Ultimate on a quad core with 4 gigs of ram and an 8800gtx doesnt like pc games from 97... And yes it did chug on Supreme Commander. So much so I have put off building a new rig until that can be fairly run on a grand. So Total Annihilation with the 5000 unit patch here I come.

Carmageddon and ROTT brilliant games

yeh Im still not going to run Vista for as long as I can, its not like when people who thought they were úber held out with 2000 instead of XP, when it was possible to make XP as stable as 2000, and it had way more driver support

In this case Vista is undeniably shittier if your a gamer