First post, by RoadkillSD
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Hey, all.
First post ever so I feel it necessary to give a massive thank you to Qbix, Harekiet, Fanskapet and Finster for creating DOSBox and making the world a better place and a monumental thanks to Yesterplay80 for the ECE version because thanks to you, sir, I've been able to go back and play 3dfx-enhanced DOS games I could never run before properly back in the day. So, now that the gushing is out of the way... on to my Windows-based game issue.
So I've made it more than half-way through my the remaining games that I still have on CDs/diskettes that are not available digitally through the likes of Steam or GOG and have finally hit a wall with G-Police. I had no issues getting the rest of the games bundled with my Creative Voodoo2 (Ultim@te Race Pro and Incoming) but G-Police just gives me the finger. I've searched the posts on here and I'm only finding passing mentions of the game and two posts about graphic and sound issues; nothing about install issues. Even the comments on Youtube videos of people playing it on their modern OS say they didn't have to do anything special to get it installed so I'm wondering if something changed in that last couple Win10 builds since those users got it to work to break functionality. I'm running 64bit Windows 10 Enterprise b1803 on an i5 3570k and an EVGA GeForce 980GTX Ti Classified. After seeing this guy running the game without issue in 3840x2160 (seriously?!) supposedly natively without any modding, I first tried just running the autorun installer, which loads the initial menu to select run or install, but then it just quits to desktop immediately after selecting install. I then attempted to run the setup.exe on the disc, which prompts UAC but then nothing. Checking task manager, I can see a "32-bit Installer" in the list but it's doing nothing - 0 RAM or CPU usage - just sitting there. It never moves forward so I end the process. I then tried every possible combination of compatibility mode from Win 8 through Win 95 with and without administrative permissions but still the same response as running setup.exe normally - a stuck installer in task manager. So next I copied the entire cd contents to a folder on my desktop and attempted the same steps from the local copy with no success. Lastly, I used the replacement InstallEngine 5 32-bit executable (this was necessary for a few games using InstallEngine 3) even though this isn't a 16-bit installer but still no luck. I've run out of ideas. About to download the ISO of it off myabandonware.com just to see if it's just a problem with the Creative bundled CD version I have vs the standard retail version. Any other suggestions?
Children of the 80s are the benchmark gamers - we've been there since video games' inception so we've experienced it all and can actually both applaud and scrutinize today's games.