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Article #94302Re: Patch for ME
From: Stephen Howe
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 19:52
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 19:52
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> Quite sure. Done it with both Doom 3 and Quake 4. Both times they > informed me during setup that I was installing to a unsupported OS, but > gave me the choice of installing anyway. I would not be so sure. What matters is that is the 3 main files of Windows (KERNEL32.DLL, USER32.DLL & GDI32.DLL) support the APIs that Doom3/Quake4 requires. If they do not, it will not run. A case in point: Visual Studio 2005 C++ apps may not run on Windows NT 4.0. Some of the apps, if built in a certain way - require the API GetLongPathNameW to exist. Now NT4.0's KERNEL even with Service Pack 6a, does not support that API. So they will not run on NT 4.0 Depending on how critical these missing APIs are, hacking Doom3/Quake4 may not be enough. It would be interesting to find out how far back you can go with Windows 95 Windows 98, first edition Windows 98, second edition Windows ME Windows NT 3.1 Windows NT 3.5 Windows NT 4.0 Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows 2003 Stephen Howe
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