Ok, i understand... Thank you.

Still no system specifications... ->athlon XP 2000+ Geforce 4 ti 4200 512 ddram msi kt3 Windows XP pro (SP1) Sblive 1024 It does seem to work? or it does not seem to work? -> It does seem to work Well, how much time is a long time? ->few hours Hard to tell, we need more detail. -> Do you have your …

Ok, I tried many different dos4gw and it's seems work. Well, It's always crash but not in few seconds... I can play a long time and save the game (if i think of it)... If this is the "normal" way to playing SS1 on XP, so i thank you guys...

yes. It's exactly my command line. (without this path.)

I have already do this. I have dos4gw version 1.97 Maybe it's the problem ?

Yes. And i tried ALL the no-cd patch that i found, US(Englsih) and German. (actually i have the US Game. They don't translate it in french...) They don't work neither.

I wrote in my first post : "i did all the things for make it working (CDSHOCK.exe, vdms...etc)" So i have already did that. My problem it's that crash after few second of play... (maybe it's my english which is bad... sorry)

I tried the official patch and the no-cd patch but SS2 doesn't start with me. I have Athlon XP 2000+ with Geforce 4 ti4200 on Windows XP. All my drivers are updated and i tried the compatibility mode of XP in windows 95, 98, NT4 and 2000. Nothing change... The game just doesn't start... the screen …

I did all the things for make it working (CDSHOCK.exe, vdms...etc) , the game start, i can play but it crash few seconds or minutes after with : General protection fault EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00000000 ECX: 01e000d3 EDX: 04570b6c TXT: 00000327 ESI: 00000000 EDI: 00000002 EBP: 042abc60 ESP: 042c98f8 DTA: …