Originally posted by unlucky hey is there a reason a Micosoft made game wont run in XP?

Because it was made for Windows 9x, which is significantly different from XP. Really. That's all it takes, it seems.

after a try to launch the game, all that happens is the begining art pops up (not the launcher). And thats it, it doesnt go beyond that. Also when i ctrl+alt+del it does not show in my active programs.

While other people have had some problems, I haven't heard of anyone with this problem.

Can I presume that it's been patched to v1.02?http://www.microsoft.com/games/crimsonskies/downloads.asp

You might want to confirm that your CD is still good by testing it on a friend's PC, especially if they're using Windows 98.

i also have this problem with StarLancer, another older M$ game...

You might try changing video resolution and disabling and shutting off EAX if you're using it, as suggested here:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie= … ie%3DISO-8859-1

It apparently also has a stick problem in XP. Appears that Starlancer running in XP is pure "chance":
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie= … %3DN%26tab%3Dwg

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie= … %3DN%26tab%3Dwg

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie= … %3DN%26tab%3Dwg

It doesn't appear that there were any patches for Starlancer:
http://www.microsoft.com/games/da/starlancer/downloads.asp

"Crimson Skies" runs fine on my XP computer, no problems. Maybe it is a video card problem.

I can't run CS with hardware video either.
Software works fine but looks superpixelly, hardware gives graphic errors on text.
XP pro, geforce 8600. Tried 98 compatibility-crashes, tried 2000 compatibility-text glitches, tried setting desktop graphics all over the place-no help, disabled visual themes-no help.

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