Can you copy the file off of the CD in Windows? (To verify that the disc is good).

I can't even OPEN the CD in windows, unless I right-click and select "Explore". When I do that, I can copy the contents. But if I can't open the disc normally, what does that mean?

Hmm, sometimes if the CD is dirty or bad quality then Autorun can take forever to load. It's probably that.

If you can explore the CD and copy the file then you should be good.

Found this: But I HAVE Mounted My CD Drive

That it may have a bad autorun program. The important thing is to ascertain whether the files themselves can be read. Can you copy the entire disc to your hard drive without errors?

Well, I can copy everything from both discs onto my hard drive okay.

It's strange, though. It installed just fine on my old XP (though I still couldn't play it. Go figure. 😜 )

EDIT: However, even though I've copied everything, I still have no idea how to install it properly without the disc. I tried using install.exe instead of install.bat, and it said that the second disc could not be found, so I had to exit installation, mount the CD drive, and run installation again, and it still stopped at XMI.RL.

2nd edit: It looks like BackwardsCamel had the same problem, so there wasn't really any need to copy the stuff from the CDs.

So I try to run the game, and I get the message that says Error: Couldn't load the sound driver". So I run install.exe in the file, change the music/speech options to something else, then it exits the installation program, saying there's a file missing from the folder.

And now, for whatever reason, another file pops up inside the folder with ID\T7G as the pathname. What's inside is a "groovie.ini" file that has the changes I made, as well as DEBUG.T7G.

Is there a particular reason why it's doing this?

Z:\>mount x C:\T7Gfile
Drive X is mounted as local directory C:\T7Gfile\

Please explain, why X?

then it stops when it copies XMI.RL. It doesn't close; it just freezes.

Do you have autoexec.bat and config.sys files in the mounted folder?
The installer stalls without these in 0.73. Have you tried 0.72?
Though it normally stalls at README.TXT.

it said that the second disc could not be found

That's odd. The installer should be on disc 2. If you try from disc 1 it says it was moved to disc 2 for space.

SKARDAVNELNATE wrote:

Z:\>mount x C:\T7Gfile
Drive X is mounted as local directory C:\T7Gfile\

Please explain, why X?

Well, why not? 😜

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then it stops when it copies XMI.RL. It doesn't close; it just freezes.

Do you have autoexec.bat and config.sys files in the mounted folder?
The installer stalls without these in 0.73. Have you tried 0.72?
Though it normally stalls at README.TXT.

No, I haven't tried .72, actually. I'll give it a shot.

it said that the second disc could not be found

That's odd. The installer should be on disc 2. If you try from disc 1 it says it was moved to disc 2 for space.

Don't worry about it; that's a moot issue.

Well, why not?

Dos games might expect C.

I did it! I got it to work!

All I had to do was copy the files in the folder and paste it into the new folder the installer created after I adjusted the sound settings.

There's sound, speech, and the movies work fine.

But when you move around the house, the framerate is choppy as hell. 😖

Unfortunately, that's a known issue with this game.