Re: Installing Emperor ot Fading Suns?

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From: sha... shadows
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 09:32

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LRW li...@nospahmcelticbear.com wrote:
>Anyone know how to install Holistic's Emperor of the Fading Suns bypassing
>the mandatory DirectX3 installation?
>
>I have WinME with DX7.1, and every time I try installing, it wants to
>install DX3. Even if I let it, it goes through the motions and reboots
>(though it doesn't replace DX7,) but doesn't continue with the game install.
>If I try running setup again, it does the same thing all over!
>
>Does anyone have any ideas?!

Might be worth mentioning this to the folks at Holistic. The DX3
forceful installation was lame and they should redo the install
process to prompt you for DX installation.

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Thamer Al-Herbish                           <URL http://www.whitefang.com/>

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