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First post, by dudalb

Posted on 2005-04-28, 02:38

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Something wierd has happened.
Once I could run certain Dos games on my XP computer.
(Warcraft,Jagged Alliance,SPMBT,Wooden Ships and Iron Men).
Now my computer no longer runs them, they crash when I try to run them.
With some I get a message about certain files missing, in others I don't.
I have not upgraded my system, have installed no new Service packs from Microsoft for XP,have not changed video cards or video card drivers since these games ran fine. The only change is that I had a DVD rom drive installed as a second CD drive. Could this have screwed up my DOS capability.
I have dosbox, but the games run much slower on it and for some reason when I try to run dosbox fullscreen it crashes
My specs are P4 2GZH
512MB of memory
Sound blaster Live
Nividia GEFOrce 4 4200 Ti card
and am running XP Pro.
Any reason why this would happen all of a sudden? Is it a memory issue.
Some Dos games I never could run until Dosbox, but the ones I am concerned about did run fine until a couple of weeks ago and I did not , to my knowledge, to anything to alter the XP system that would have caused this like install a new service pack, etc.
Thanks for you help in this matter.
Could the c rashing FullScreen DosBox have something to do with this?

Reply 1 of 5, by HunterZ

Posted on 2005-04-28, 03:36

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It's possible that your drive letters changed around as a result of installing a new drive, and that the games can't find their files anymore because of it.

Either reinstall the games, or in Windows open Start->Settings->Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Computer Management->Disk Management, then right-click on the affected drives and change their letters to the way they were before you installed the new drive.

Reply 2 of 5, by dudalb

Posted on 2005-04-29, 03:39

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Thanks for the help, but it can't be a CD drive problem for two reasons.

1. I had the dvd drive installed by a pro, and he did not change the letters of any drive. It was installed with drive number that had never been used before. The cd rom drive I have been using is still in place with the same letter as when the games were working.
2. Some of the games that no longer work are downloads, which I did not install from a CD drive, and have never needed a CD Rom to run.
I tried a reinstall with a couple of the games to no avail.
Anybody else have ideas?

Reply 3 of 5, by DosFreak

Posted on 2005-04-29, 03:52

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By "crash when I try to run them", what do you mean? What exactly happens?

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Reply 4 of 5, by Snover

Posted on 2005-05-01, 23:13

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Solution: copy C:\WINDOWS\REPAIR\AUTOEXEC.NT to c:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT, get rid of the spyware on your computer, and stop using Internet Explorer. 😀

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Reply 5 of 5, by eL_PuSHeR

Posted on 2005-05-02, 09:53

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Hmm. Snover is probably right but you haven't tell us what the exact error message is yet. 😦

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