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Article #65928Re: Installing Emperor ot Fading Suns?
From: David Short
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 15:36
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 15:36
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Pehaps I'm mistaken but isn't this the same company that within the last few days announced they were releasing and update of Merchant Prince? Seems to me a nicely worded e-mail asking that an updated installation script be made available as a download would be appropriate. dfs LRW <li...@nospahmcelticbear.com> wrote in message news:xLdg6.133$D13.275227@nnrp2.sbc.net... > ROTFL! Yeah that'd be a good idea if their computer games dept wasn't pretty > much defunct. =) They don't even have a computer game tech dept. And even if > they did, "Emporer Of The F.S." is about 5 years old and I'm certain they > wouldn't actively support it anymore. > I did however write to a general e-mail address for them, and someone wrote > back suggesting I either let it install DX3 and then reinstall DX7 (even > though I told him what I mentioned here: That DX3 never actually really > installs,) or he can send me some registry based fix. Which he hasn't sent > yet, and I'm not sure is really going to do anything. > But thanks anyway. =) > Liam > > > "shadows" <sha...@whitefang.com> wrote in message > news:slrn9825os.kq.shadows@rage.whitefang.com... > > 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. > > > > -- > > Thamer Al-Herbish <URL > http://www.whitefang.com/> > >
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