Windows Games

You guys into the John Carpenter film "The Thing"?
AndyFair
Yeah, I've seen videos of game footage, it looks awesome. The NPCs also react to the way you behave, and become more paranoid as the game goes on. . . if they do it right, this could be the horror game of the century! OK, Clive Barker's game was atmospheric, but it just didn't do it for me - it still seemed as thou ...

Wing Commander 4
Sanchez
I have the DOS version and patched with the WIN95 patch from EA and now when I run I get a popup saying VirtualProtect() failed. I get that same error using compatibility mode and qfixapp. Any ideas? Btw, the game runs fine on XP, but I hate XP ;(.

How do I get my fps using timedemo with JediKnight II demo?
DARTH maul
I installed the latest Jedi Knight II demo. Now I want to know how I run the timedemo to get my fps score. . . . . . anyone?.

Grandia II
ssgohan_01
I cant get my game to run, it keeps giving me an error. Can anyone help me. I've already tried the compability wizard, but it still doesnt work. What should I do?.

XP HOME + pre-sp1 fixes and NFS5
NTGAMEMAN
i can't get it to load. says it requires windows 95/98 then i put it in win95/98 mode. then the game loads but i can't get 3D to work! plz help me.

Driver under Windows2000
Titanus
Hey people! I really think this is a great NT info site! Many of my doubts and questions were answered here without having to bother anyone! However there is a first time for everything, and now I have a problem I couldn't solve until now, and for which there is no solution even in this site!!! I've been trying to ...

SB Live and Unreal Engine Games
pmistry
Deus Ex, Unreal Gold, and Unreal Tournament, all of these games run with very distorted/crackling sound under Windows XP Pro for me, this happens 9 times out of 10. What I don't understand is how sometimes it works perfectly fine, but if you exit the program and relaunch it, the crackling returns.

Q3 Configuration file question: What variable in q3config.cf
Jerry Atrik
wavonly and 22khz i would have to look for the exact commands

Old DOS Game?
embj
Is there anyway to slow down the movement of Theme Park World in XP? I am talking about the old one just so you know. It is just too fast. It was even too fast on my old 466mhz comp. Thanks y'all. .


"Not a valid Win32 application" error message unde
fistersn
I am a huge fan of The Sims, and I just bought the expansion pack to The sims, The sims on holiday. Bitn when i try to install the orginal Sims, i got this error message Not a valid Win32 application.

Final Fantasy 7 (Specific Problem)
worldgate989
I managed to get the game to work following the instructions from what several people said but I have a problem. When you goto the chocobo races the game locks up then crashes back to windows 2000. I have Service Pack 2, App Compat Update, and then the App Compat 1.

Radeon 8500 with NFS High Stakes
pmistry
Anybody have this combination? If you do does the fog work in the game. Alot of older ATI hardware had problems with implementing fog into games especially High Stakes. .

Memroy/ Games
AtolSammeek
Hello I have a amd 1800 with a gf3 ti 500 and 1. 53gb of ram. Problem I have is The games And IE 6. 0 dont like this much ram. How should win xp pro be setup?.

Problems in Win XP
Malatar
I recently installed WinXP Pro and my new PNY Geforce 4 Ti4600 card on my 1Ghz Athlon box (512Mb). I've been having problems in Counterstrike and an older game called Sacrifice. Sometimes it will lock up, though most frequently it will just crash to the desktop.

Kind of beaten to death I know, but...
Rockin442
...I'm trying to get Final Fantasy VII to run on an IBM ThinkPad 530E, in Win2kPro, with the NeoMagic non-3D video card. I'm gonna try it with the ACT version 1.5. Any tips? ~MJE~

the sims hot date and vacation
big_jr_75
we have just bought a new computer that has windows xp/nt on it the sims installed and played with no promblems but everytime we try to install the expansion packs they stop at 75% or just stop installing completely.


xp and tiger woods
TrimGod
i installed xp home version on asus p2b motherboard, with pentium 3, and voodoo3 2000 series card. i've installed tiger woods 2001 several times, and got it to work a couple times, only to have it not work the next time i go to play.