You wouldn't happen to have a copy of the original disc would you? If not, well, pirated games aren't really supported here. Sorry. 🤣

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:

You wouldn't happen to have a copy of the original disc would you? If not, well, pirated games aren't really supported here. Sorry. 🤣

Sorry to necro post on this thread, but I have a real copy of the disc and I can confirm that I have the same problem. This has absolutely NOTHING to do with him pirating the game. There is no legitimate reason to discourage people from helping him, since it is clear that his problem is video card/compatibility related and not because of a crack. On WinXP 32-bit the game generally runs and installs fine.

EDIT: The game seems to run okay for me in software mode on Win8 64 bit. If you have further problems it may be because of the crack.

Damn that looks like a cool game! I may have to go get a copy. 🤣

CPX7700 wrote:

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:

You wouldn't happen to have a copy of the original disc would you? If not, well, pirated games aren't really supported here. Sorry. 🤣

Sorry to necro post on this thread, but I have a real copy of the disc and I can confirm that I have the same problem. This has absolutely NOTHING to do with him pirating the game. There is no legitimate reason to discourage people from helping him, since it is clear that his problem is video card/compatibility related and not because of a crack. On WinXP 32-bit the game generally runs and installs fine.

EDIT: The game seems to run okay for me in software mode on Win8 64 bit. If you have further problems it may be because of the crack.

We get a lot of requests here for help with "abandonware" copies of games, which is why I pointed out that abandonware isn't supported here. Partially it's for legal reasons, since the DosBox team doesn't want to be associated with what is technically piracy, but *ahem*, having played a few abandonware games myself, they sometimes ship with cracks that can cause issues not present in the original versions of the games, especially when it comes to running these games on newer systems or under emulation. Anyway, the red flag went off for me as soon as I saw the word "iso". I know plenty of people make isos of games they already own for convenience, but often when people mention they have an iso of a game they need help with, it's not because they own it.

Anyway, I don't write the rules here, nor do I really have any authority to enforce them. It was kind of stupid for me to comment, looking back.

I've tried Wipeout XL on various setups. Win7, Win8, 32-bit, 64-bit, ATI and Nvidia. Worked without the problems mentioned here on all of them. I haven't tried my 2097 disc (different region, same game).

Game cracks adds a LOT of troubleshooting headaches. Especially when you just say you're using a crack for a game that has several of them. I know Wipeout XL/2097 has at least 5 modified executables so we've gone from troubleshooting two versions (2097 to XL) to ten versions (2097 with any of the cracks, XL with any of the cracks). No one's going to help you if you're not willing to eliminiate that as a potential problem.

I don't care if you're pirating old titles or not. You're just making it really hard for us to help if you're using cracks we can't test. That's what upsets me about pirates on this forum.

Re: Win8: make sure to update to 8.1 and install updates, then make sure compatibility mode for the exe is set to either 256 colors or 16-bit colors. Direct3D rendering should work.

Wipeout XL Pentium IV patch available here. This might fix the problems you're having.