Re: How to run D2 on 2000/XP

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From: David L. Willson
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 17:31

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If you make a shortcut to the setup program, and set it to compatibility 
mode, with the emulation being Win9X, it'll go.

Florian 'The Outrider' Piesche wrote:
> Bernd Holzbaur schrieb:
> 
>> I tried to install D2 on a Win2000 system, but i wasn't able to run it.
>> There're Service Pack 4 and all newer updates (i heard, that SP2 
>> should fix the problem), but nothing works. Can anybody tell me why??
> 
> Descent 2 is a DOS game; Windows 2000 as well as Windows XP are based on 
> NT, which doesn't have a DOS system underneath (Und Das Ist Auch Gut 
> So(tm)). Try D2x (available at http://icculus.org/d2x/), it should work 
> just fine with it. Does for me, at leastt.
> D2X has a few other nice enhancements, like support for 3D acceleration, 
> framerate limiting (so you don't get the "ship bobs like crazy" 
> problem), etc etc etc.
> 
> 
> Hope this helps!
> 
> Florian
>

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