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Asheron's Call with Networking problem

PinkPanther
Hello, I have a 5 computer network at home, and I connect to my ISP via a wireless connection using a Cisco Aironet network card. I need some assistance in getting a STABLE Internet Sharing utility that will allow me to play AC on ALL 5 computers simultaneously.
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Geforce 2 mx...recommended ?

Vulcan
hey. . i currently have a voodoo 3 3000 and a pentium III 450 mhz and much to my surprise ,most games run just fine - jedi knight II ,Return to Castle Wolfenstein. (almost unnoticeable stutter). please understand me.
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Oddworld Abe's Exoddus isn't workin =(

XmascroW
Who can help me ? who has the same prob ? -> everytime , i want to start the game there's an error Sorry, not supported on Windows NT. If i change da compatability there's the same error except @ Win98 and 95 there the prog isn't startin.
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The Sims loading VERY slowly - WinXP

broo
Ok, i have winxp home on a good pc (athlon 1. 1ghz, 512mb, gf2) now when i try to run the sims (with or without all addons) it basically works, but takes a bloody age to start. What i mean is on the screen where it first starts to load and shows text scroll accross the bottom it takes a stupid amount of time to ful ...
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TieFighter (XW.coll.ed) in W2k

Tom-boy
I sure hope someone here can help me, because I've tried pretty much elsewhere for assistance. I'm trying to play TieFighter (X-wing collectord edition version) with my Win 2k Pro. I know that it is not supposed to run in this environment, so I installed QFixxapp (Microsoft Application Compitibility Toolkit 1.
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Medal Of Honour Networking

koonskau
I hope someone can help. I have medal of honour running on a dedicated server. The server pc is connected to the internet through a cable modem on a network card and to a lan through another card. I use sygate software to asign ip addresses and to allow internet sharing to the other machines My problem is that now ...
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Dungeon Siege

BladeRunner
Well today is Dungeon Siege release day here in the UK. The good old boys at EB had it waiting for me when I woke up this morning, unfortunately I've had to go through a day of work before I've been able to play it Grrrr.
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Jedi Knight

OTL
Hello I'm unable to get the game running under XP. I've linked the shortcut to JK. exe, used compatability mode, tried manual installs, and still no luck. When I click the. exe the screen goes black and then I'm tossed back to the doesktop.
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Tonka Workshop under Windows 2000

Stefke
My son got for his birthday the Tonka Workshop. On our PC we have Windows 2000 and the game does not work. At Hasbro I can not find a solution, can anyone help?.
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Settlers3 and XP

sergei
How can i play Settlers3 in Win XP?? Do i have to make some changes in the game options or what?. . . . .
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Voodoo3 2000 & Medal of Honor

Chopper
Trying to start the game results in everything OK, except: Initializing OpenGL driver. . . getting DC: succeeded. . . GLW_ChoosePFD( 16, 16, 0 ). . . 35 PFDs found. . . GLW_ChoosePFD failed. . . failed to find an appropriate PIXELFORMAT.
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Strange Hum in Diablo 2

Mekadave
Hope someone can help. I'm running Win2k/SP2/SRP1 on this system: Asus P5A-B 512MB PC133 SDRAM K62-500mhz Voodoo 4 4500 SB Live! Altec Lansing ACS40 speakers I'm currently playing Diablo 2/LOD 1.
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Whats up with AI?

sapiens74
I gotta tell you. I get so frustrated with poor AI nowadys. Renegade is just plain Horrible. Standing there while I shoot them. JK2 tho has great AI, cept for the StormTroopers which have been dumb since the first movie.
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Max Payne & Renegade

Merkor
Hi there, I did a clean install of WinXP Pro and Max Payne with the latest patch. Without activating the Win98 compatibility mode it took years to load. Also the buttons of my IntelliMouse Explorer USB were only regocnized after a second I pushed them.
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Rengade

sapiens74
Finally got this game and it rocks! Has a bit of a performace issue tho, has anyone tried it out? It stutters sometimes even at lower resoultions Even with the new update its not as smooth as I'd like Any tried it yet, and with what results?
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Acendancy and VESA under NT?

GarionJB
I am trying to get a DOS game called ascendancy to run on NT. It won't let me configure the video. Everytime I try, it says VESA BIOS call 00h failed!.
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