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On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 04:41:31 -0400, "Mark Price"
<celticus@bellsouth.net> wrote:

>I need some expertise. I have recently gotten myself a new motherboard and
>hard drive. I installed windows 2000 as the operating system and now cannot
>get D2 to even load. I get as far as install and it tells me that D2 is
>meant to run on Windows 95. I have downloaded the compatibility patch but I
>can't get far enough to use it. I had D2 on another 2000 box but can't get
>it here. What am I doing wrong?
>Mark
>

I had the same issue, I just copied the entire D2 directory from my
old machine to my new one via network connection. Worked for me.

Every new machine I've seen in the last few years has LAN ports, so
you could set it up with a crossover cable even if you don't normally
use a LAN.

Or, if you still have the old hard drive, load it as a IDE slave drive
and run it from there.

HTH
Mike

Mark Price wrote:
> I need some expertise. I have recently gotten myself a new motherboard and
> hard drive. I installed windows 2000 as the operating system and now cannot
> get D2 to even load. I get as far as install and it tells me that D2 is
> meant to run on Windows 95. I have downloaded the compatibility patch but I
> can't get far enough to use it. I had D2 on another 2000 box but can't get
> it here. What am I doing wrong?
I'm not quite sure if I understand this right; if you can install it, 
just grab D2x (http://www.icculus.org/d2x/) and use that. Works like a 
charm.
If it doesn't install, which version of D2 do you have? I believe 
there's a lot of versions - especially budget variants or the one from 
the "Descent Venture Pack" - that have a directory that contains all 
files you'll need for D2. Check if you have one of those versions. If 
you do, just copy them over and use D2x then. ;)
Otherwise, see if you can get it to install with DOSbox 
(http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/).


HTH,

-- 
Florian "The Outrider" Piesche (outrider@mag-murphy.net - http://www.mag-murphy.net)
"Windows ME ist der gelungene Versuch, die Schwńchen von WinNT
(mangelnde Kompatibilitńt mit Win9x- und DOS-Programmen) und
Win9x (mangelnde Stabilitńt) zu kombinieren."

Well , I don't know what to say . I didn't know what version of D2 I had so
I looked at the disk and cover it came in ( I have several )  and maybe this
isn't the same disk I had been trying but it installed just the way it was
supposed to .
I was asked during installation how much I wanted to keep on disc and how
much to put in the hard drive . I picked crazy because I have the room. Is
there one level that is better than another? I guess when 1 gig HDs were
cutting edge that was more of a concern. It said that the play would be
better if I put more of it on my HD. Is this true?
I am very happy to have D2 back on my system.
Mark

 "Florian 'The Outrider' Piesche" <outrider@mag-murphy.net> wrote in message
news:blv4j5$gpoi4$1@ID-3837.news.uni-berlin.de...
> Mark Price wrote:
> > I need some expertise. I have recently gotten myself a new motherboard
and
> > hard drive. I installed windows 2000 as the operating system and now
cannot
> > get D2 to even load. I get as far as install and it tells me that D2 is
> > meant to run on Windows 95. I have downloaded the compatibility patch
but I
> > can't get far enough to use it. I had D2 on another 2000 box but can't
get
> > it here. What am I doing wrong?
> I'm not quite sure if I understand this right; if you can install it,
> just grab D2x (http://www.icculus.org/d2x/) and use that. Works like a
> charm.
> If it doesn't install, which version of D2 do you have? I believe
> there's a lot of versions - especially budget variants or the one from
> the "Descent Venture Pack" - that have a directory that contains all
> files you'll need for D2. Check if you have one of those versions. If
> you do, just copy them over and use D2x then. ;)
> Otherwise, see if you can get it to install with DOSbox
> (http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/).
>
>
> HTH,
>
> --
> Florian "The Outrider" Piesche (outrider@mag-murphy.net -
http://www.mag-murphy.net)
> "Windows ME ist der gelungene Versuch, die Schwńchen von WinNT
> (mangelnde Kompatibilitńt mit Win9x- und DOS-Programmen) und
> Win9x (mangelnde Stabilitńt) zu kombinieren."

Mark Price wrote:
> I was asked during installation how much I wanted to keep on disc and how
> much to put in the hard drive . I picked crazy because I have the room. Is
> there one level that is better than another? I guess when 1 gig HDs were
> cutting edge that was more of a concern. It said that the play would be
> better if I put more of it on my HD. Is this true?
Sort of. The two highest levels, as far as I know, only differ in 
"Crazy" having the movies installed to the hard disk as well. That is, 
the level below "Crazy" probably won't make much of a difference. The 
lower levels leave more data on the CD, which will consequently have to 
be loaded off the CD at the start of the level. In short, play itself 
won't change much, but the loading times will. Even then though, with 
nowadays' CD drives, that won't make much of a difference. The main 
advantage of the "Crazy" install is that you can use a no-CD crack or 
D2x and play without the CD. :)


Bye,

Florian

-- 
Florian "The Outrider" Piesche
outrider@mag-murphy.net - http://www.mag-murphy.net
"Ein Würfelbecher für Shadowrun hat in etwa die Größe eines handelsüb-
lichen Flugfrachtcontainers. ;)"

Thanks
Mark
"Florian 'The Outrider' Piesche" <outrider@mag-murphy.net> wrote in message
news:bm2mao$hvl4e$1@ID-3837.news.uni-berlin.de...
> Mark Price wrote:
> > I was asked during installation how much I wanted to keep on disc and
how
> > much to put in the hard drive . I picked crazy because I have the room.
Is
> > there one level that is better than another? I guess when 1 gig HDs were
> > cutting edge that was more of a concern. It said that the play would be
> > better if I put more of it on my HD. Is this true?
> Sort of. The two highest levels, as far as I know, only differ in
> "Crazy" having the movies installed to the hard disk as well. That is,
> the level below "Crazy" probably won't make much of a difference. The
> lower levels leave more data on the CD, which will consequently have to
> be loaded off the CD at the start of the level. In short, play itself
> won't change much, but the loading times will. Even then though, with
> nowadays' CD drives, that won't make much of a difference. The main
> advantage of the "Crazy" install is that you can use a no-CD crack or
> D2x and play without the CD. :)
>
>
> Bye,
>
> Florian
>
> --
> Florian "The Outrider" Piesche
> outrider@mag-murphy.net - http://www.mag-murphy.net
> "Ein Würfelbecher für Shadowrun hat in etwa die Größe eines handelsüb-
> lichen Flugfrachtcontainers. ;)"

Mark Price wrote:
> Thanks
> Mark
> "Florian 'The Outrider' Piesche" <outrider@mag-murphy.net> wrote in
> message news:bm2mao$hvl4e$1@ID-3837.news.uni-berlin.de...
>> Mark Price wrote:
>>> I was asked during installation how much I wanted to keep on disc
>>> and how much to put in the hard drive . I picked crazy because I
>>> have the room. Is there one level that is better than another? I
>>> guess when 1 gig HDs were cutting edge that was more of a concern.
>>> It said that the play would be better if I put more of it on my HD.
>>> Is this true?
>> Sort of. The two highest levels, as far as I know, only differ in
>> "Crazy" having the movies installed to the hard disk as well. That
>> is, the level below "Crazy" probably won't make much of a
>> difference. The lower levels leave more data on the CD, which will
>> consequently have to be loaded off the CD at the start of the level.
>> In short, play itself won't change much, but the loading times will.
>> Even then though, with nowadays' CD drives, that won't make much of
>> a difference. The main advantage of the "Crazy" install is that you
>> can use a no-CD crack or D2x and play without the CD. :)
>>
>>
>> Bye,
>>
>> Florian
>>
>> --
>> Florian "The Outrider" Piesche
>> outrider@mag-murphy.net - http://www.mag-murphy.net
>> "Ein Würfelbecher für Shadowrun hat in etwa die Größe eines
>> handelsüb- lichen Flugfrachtcontainers. ;)"

Mark, I can use D2 (with win2k) by installing the D2 Win95 "upgrade", then
running the game in the "win95 compatibility layer". This may help:
http://www.descent2.com/patches/d2/nt_notes.shtml

cheers