Games won't work under W2K
I am trying to run Star Wars Racer under W2K, (AMD Athlon 1G, 128Mb) but with no success. If I look at the game's analysis listing it thinks that it's running on an NT machine, so I tried using the compatibility utility APCompat.
I am trying to run Star Wars Racer under W2K, (AMD Athlon 1G, 128Mb) but with no success.
If I look at the game's analysis listing it thinks that it's running on an NT machine, so I tried using the compatibility utility APCompat.exe that came with W2K. If I Selecting the Win95 or Win98 option and try
and launch the game, I get a "Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library" error message as follows...
"MSVCRT.DLL for Win32
Error: MSVCRT.DLL is not compatible with Win32s"
If I ignore this message (probably not wise) and launch the game I get a blue thermometer moving across the bottom of a black screen (program loading, I guess), then the pc reboots!
(What is the purpose of the MSVCRT.DLL file? Is there another version of this file I should be using (mine is c:\winnt\system32, dated 07/12/99 12:00)? How can I get around this problem? I've looked on the W2K cd and there are three versions of this file, one in d:\I386, one in d:\I386\WIN9XUPG and one in d:\I386\WINNTUPG. Which one of these should be the installed one? I tried to overwrite it with a more up-to-date version I had on my NT machine, but it wouldn't take it ("Cannot create or replace MSVCRT: The specified file is being used by Windows"). I'm probably barking up the wrong tree here...)
APCompat has other checkbox options...
Disable heap manager on Windows 2000.
Use pre-Windows 2000 Temp path.
Correct disk space detection for "-GB+ drives.
make the above check nox settings permanent.
The problem is I don't know which ones I should check - the Help facility is non-existent!
I downloaded MSFT W2K compatibility toolkit and tried using QFixApp.exe instead of APCompat.exe, but this has so many fix options that I don't know which one(s) to use!
I have DirectX 7.0 installed - Racer comes with DirectX 6.1. Could that be the problem? As well as the OS, do I need to fool Racer into thinking that it is running under an earlier version of DirectX? If so, how?
Other more recent games are running ok on W2K (those that say they will run ok on NT and run on DirectX 7 or higher).
I have seen on compatiblity lists that Star Wars Racer can run under W2K. If only I could find out what it needs to get running on my pc... Any help would be appreciated.
TIA
Alan
If I look at the game's analysis listing it thinks that it's running on an NT machine, so I tried using the compatibility utility APCompat.exe that came with W2K. If I Selecting the Win95 or Win98 option and try
and launch the game, I get a "Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library" error message as follows...
"MSVCRT.DLL for Win32
Error: MSVCRT.DLL is not compatible with Win32s"
If I ignore this message (probably not wise) and launch the game I get a blue thermometer moving across the bottom of a black screen (program loading, I guess), then the pc reboots!
(What is the purpose of the MSVCRT.DLL file? Is there another version of this file I should be using (mine is c:\winnt\system32, dated 07/12/99 12:00)? How can I get around this problem? I've looked on the W2K cd and there are three versions of this file, one in d:\I386, one in d:\I386\WIN9XUPG and one in d:\I386\WINNTUPG. Which one of these should be the installed one? I tried to overwrite it with a more up-to-date version I had on my NT machine, but it wouldn't take it ("Cannot create or replace MSVCRT: The specified file is being used by Windows"). I'm probably barking up the wrong tree here...)
APCompat has other checkbox options...
Disable heap manager on Windows 2000.
Use pre-Windows 2000 Temp path.
Correct disk space detection for "-GB+ drives.
make the above check nox settings permanent.
The problem is I don't know which ones I should check - the Help facility is non-existent!
I downloaded MSFT W2K compatibility toolkit and tried using QFixApp.exe instead of APCompat.exe, but this has so many fix options that I don't know which one(s) to use!
I have DirectX 7.0 installed - Racer comes with DirectX 6.1. Could that be the problem? As well as the OS, do I need to fool Racer into thinking that it is running under an earlier version of DirectX? If so, how?
Other more recent games are running ok on W2K (those that say they will run ok on NT and run on DirectX 7 or higher).
I have seen on compatiblity lists that Star Wars Racer can run under W2K. If only I could find out what it needs to get running on my pc... Any help would be appreciated.
TIA
Alan
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