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Halx · 12-04-2003, 07:48 PM

Ok, so I had this giant urge to play the old game Thief. I popped in the install disc and... it tells me that it cannot run on NT because of a Direct X weakness. I tried copying the files to my hard drive manually, but when I run it, it closes just as fast.

Compatibility mode is useless. I have never gotten a game that normally wouldn't run to be successful with the compatibility mode on.

I just wonder, is there a win98 shell for XP? Is there ANY hope for folks like me, who have a bunch of old games and no way to play them?

12-04-2003, 07:48 PM	#1 (permalink)
Halx Please touch this. Owner/Admin Location: Manhattan	Playing win98-only games on XP? Ok, so I had this giant urge to play the old game Thief. I popped in the install disc and... it tells me that it cannot run on NT because of a Direct X weakness. I tried copying the files to my hard drive manually, but when I run it, it closes just as fast. Compatibility mode is useless. I have never gotten a game that normally wouldn't run to be successful with the compatibility mode on. I just wonder, is there a win98 shell for XP? Is there ANY hope for folks like me, who have a bunch of old games and no way to play them? __________________ You have found this post informative. -The Administrator [Don't Feed The Animals]