To my knowledge, GOG's installers are meant to be run on Windows 7 or later, and that's what most of the games are optimized for. Sometimes you can find whatever file they used as a disk image and mount that to a virtual drive or burn it, and install it natively that way, or with DOS games just copy them over to a machine they run on. So you're pretty much down to either finding a physical copy or just finding a disk image somewhere, since you do technically own the game. Not sure on the legality of that, but that's my take on it. Hope this helps!

Thank you for responding! So the installer actually DOES work on Windows XP just fine but I've also tried installing it on Windows 7 and then copying it over to my XP drive. The issue seems to be that there must be some essential files that are different from the retail release.

Does anyone have a retail install they could list out their directory to compare?

infiniteclouds wrote on 2020-06-20, 04:07:

Thank you for responding! So the installer actually DOES work on Windows XP just fine but I've also tried installing it on Windows 7 and then copying it over to my XP drive. The issue seems to be that there must be some essential files that are different from the retail release.

Does anyone have a retail install they could list out their directory to compare?

I have the PC gamer version , I suspect this is quite different from the original release as it has ogg files, but for what its worth here is the directory listing....good luck its over 2 megs in size.

Note: This version runs on XP, where I'm currently playing it.

At a glance besides the goggame type files my contains an extra folder _redist and a d3d9.dll.

Thank you for sharing ! You actually helped me figure it out. All I needed to do was remove the d3d9.dll and it runs!