Thanks for the replies guys. I'll try that solution. The Ultima 8 windows engine you're referring to is called Pentagram, but it's nowhere near finished as far as I know. It took Exult (the Ultima 7 Win engine) something like 4 years dev time before it was ready... http://pentagram.sourceforge.net/ …

Well hello again, Anyone else get Ultima 8 installed to find out it only runs once before complaining of a incomplete installation? The first time I launch the game, it starts unpacking some sort of shapes.flx file (which, I believe, is located in the STATIC folder). It politely tells me that this …

Then it's a good thing I popped everything into the Resource folder. To be honest, SOUND was just an (mis?)educated guess. If I have time, I might systematically delete files to find the exact subfolder configuration but I wouldn't hold my breath! 😀

Sure, Well, according to the link it turns out that there's no subfolder hierarchy in the Tie Fighter zip file. Luckily, I had X-Wing Vs. Tie Fighter installed on my machine and I was able to recreate the different subfolders based on that. Once I had the game running, it would crash when looking …

I think I just answered myself. Config.sys FILES=30 for Tie Fighter Oops.

Hi there, I'm having problems getting Tie Fighter to run. It keeps asking me to set files=40 when I try it with Dosbox or VDMS. I've edited my config.nt in the system directory to include the files argument, but it still comes up with the same error message. I'm running XP SP None. Any ideas?