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Rogue Spear Help Plz

KermiT7
hi guys, been reading this board for quite a while now. can anyone please help me with Rogue Spear? I have just recently installed Win2k advanced server and it installed fine. the patch program halts when it gets to 100%.
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Dracula TLS - solution for win2000 ?

Accumelator
Directx 8 made game almost work. . . . Game stopped working when looking at picture above desk (with filmreels) at first chapter of the game. . . . Anyone who has gotten around the problem ? Thanks.
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Battle of Britain -Anyone tried this?

anak1
Anyone tried it under Win2K? Does it work ok? Windows 2000 Service Pack 1 P3800EB Abit VH6(Pro133A) 192MB PC133 SB Live! Asus V7700 Geforce2 GTS 3Com EtherLink III ISA
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Baldur gate 2 on a geforce 2 gts opengl problem.

AOvl
Hi ! I tried the detonator 6. 47 and the latest 10. 80 , but i can't play in opengl ? When i do the test in the bgconfig , i see something like a big black square , with some grey around it. But when i select 2d and 32 bits , everything work's great.
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Problems with Alpha Centauri/Heroes III

Vemund
Hi all! I've been searching this forum for an answer to my question without success, so I thought I might post it - sorry if this has been posted before. Alpha Centauri: Game seems to work fine under Win2000, but for some reason I am not able to move units around with the keypad (yes, I checked - NumLock is on).
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Games for NT 4.0 ???????????

JMD
Hello can anyone tell me what good games are out there that will run on NT 4. 0. There doesn't seem to be a hell of a lot out there. Looking for something that requires a bit of thinking and some good wholesome violence.
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annoying half-life failure

moray
OK - here's the story. I was running NT4 and upgraded to win2k with no problems. Half life ran under NT and ran under 2000. Fine. Then I had to reformat my disk and reinstall Win2k. Since then I have taken the opportunity to load the most recent video drivers for my Matrox G400 Max(5.
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Insane

ParaDoX
The game loads up fine, and loads all the textures when trying to start a race, but then it kicks me back to the desktop. Anyone who knows how make this game work in Win2k? From what I've read some have no problems with it, and others have the same problem as me.
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Ground Contol Problems

Exorcist
Hi, Think I posted something about this 7 or 8 months ago. Couldn't fix it so gave up. Anyway, reinstalled Ground Control today, patched it to 1. 0. 1. 1, and still get the same error. Installing GC comes up with hasn't detected DX7, won't run without DX7 thing, but I have the latest DX8 installed.
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Is there any way to get these games running in W2K?

paul_h_amiga
I have the following three games with which I want to use on a W2K system. The games are House of the Dead, Sonic r and Virtua Cop 2. The system I have: Celeron 500 Geforce 2 GTS 192MB Ram Direct X 8 10GB HD Creative DVD 5x drive Philips 8X4X32 Cd-Rewriter I have tried the Application Compatiblity Thing from the W2 ...
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Please help me with starsiege tribes and w2k!!

njc
Hello I just updated to w2k pro and have updated all my drivers. The problem is when I try to load tribes I get the 3dfx screen then it goes black which hangs causing me to reboot. I have a voodoo 3 3000pci which I updated, dx8, p111 450 128 megs ram.
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NBA 2001 + win 2k pro..probs for me :(

Mr.Guvernment
okay, i have installed it 5 times,formatted my computer (had to anyways) installed it rigth away, then took it out, then added sp1, and a bunch of over updates etc etc, then insatlled it again. . and not'n, i double click the exe and it shows the quick splash scrren, then thas it i go into task manger to see if any ...
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Diablo

Almghty
If I remember I got diablo to run. Thats not bad. . lots of violence and some thinking. I'm on win2k now and have played diablo2 so I assume diablo2 would also work on nt4. . dont know you'll have to try for yourself.
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New beta x3dfx Voodoo drivers: Well....

X-AL
I saw the message, loaded those beta x3dfx W2K Voodoo5 drivers down and hoped they would solve the few existing WHQL 1. 04 driver problems. GP3 -> mixed up textures MB Truck Racing -> disappearing/missing textures Delta Force Landwarrior -> missing in-game indicators (cross, texts, etc.
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Mouse Input Locking in games (sticky keys?)

Vechlor
The Problem: - Any game I play where I half to press or hold down one mouse button while clicking on another causes the input or clicking of that button to lock-up even after releasing my fingers. This problem I think is with all the FPS games I play like Quake3 and Counter-Strike, where as if I let go of the butto ...
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Sticky Keyboard

evil Homer
I haven't suffered from sticky key syndrome in games for ages, and now I get it constantly in Grand Prix 3. The A key which is the accelerator sticks, making the game unplayable. The easiest way around this would be to plug my force feedback wheel in, but I'm too lazy This only happened recently when I got a new ke ...
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