I believe there's a fix out there for that. Will see if I can dig up the link

Thanks; it's intensely frustrating not to be able to play one of my favorite games. I wish I could track down the DOS version, both because of the ease of use with DOSBOX and because of the 1.4 patch I just learned of.

That game should work perfectly within MS Virtual PC 2007 + Win98 or XP.

Ron_Lugge wrote:

the CD I have is the later, pre-patched 'DOS only' version

I'm confused.

Jorpho wrote:

I'm confused.

MOO2 is one of the few games that comes in both a DOS and Windows 9x version. However, unlike other such games, both versions were not included same CD apparently (annoyingly).

I can't say that the Win9x version has been problematic for me. I've played it on a wide range of hardware over the years and it runs very fast on anything Pentium II or better. There are patches for it which solve a few issues, such as memory leaks that slow the game down as time goes by.

I know it works fine in XP but have never tried it in Vista or 7. That's why I suggest Virtual PC 2007 + Win98 or XP.

swaaye wrote:

Jorpho wrote:

I'm confused.

MOO2 is one of the few games that comes in both a DOS and Windows 9x version. However, unlike other such games, both versions were not included same CD apparently (annoyingly).

The original CD included both versions; there was a later re-release that included only a patched, windows version.

I can't say that the Win9x version has been problematic for me. I've played it on a wide range of hardware over the years and it runs very fast on anything Pentium II or better. There are patches for it which solve a few issues, such as memory leaks that slow the game down as time goes by.

I know it works fine in XP but have never tried it in Vista or 7. That's why I suggest Virtual PC 2007 + Win98 or XP.

By patches, do you mean the official 1.31 (I think) patch, or the unofficial 1.4 patch? If the latter, I could have sworn that was DOS only.

Anyway, than you for the suggestion of Virtual PC; the XP version can run the game. Now I just need to figure out how to make it use 'stretch' instead of 'center' settings; I'd really prefer to have the game full screen instead of a quarter or so of the screen.

Ron_Lugge wrote:

The original CD included both versions; there was a later re-release that included only a patched, windows version.

I have the original release. I guess I never looked for a DOS version on there.

And I've only used the official patch for it.

Ah, well you're lucky. The DOS version has a lot going for it these days.

Still, even if it's not ideal at least I've got the windows version working now!

Edit: more or less working; I keep on running into new graphical errors that I have to close and restart to fix, and sometimes Ihave to restart the virtual machine because the program won't run.

To solve missing sound I had re-enable S/PDIF output in sound options which I disabled because I only use HDMI. Probably means the game gets confused about which device to send audio to, so try disabling/enabling devices in sound options, regardless of if you use them or not.

For color corruption I right click the desktop and open the "screen resolution" window before launching the game, this should work for some other games too. If you don't want to do this each time try making a .bat file to kill explorer before starting the game and launching it again after the game stops running.

Alternatively, launching the game in DxWnd should solve both problems, but it will run less stable and not fullscreen (you can increase the window size to more than 640x480 though)