Nicht Sehr Gut wrote:
Could you possibly give a detailed breakdown of exactly what you did? This might be a 2000-vs-XP issue or maybe we've just been missing something.
It may also have something to do with which version you are playing. Apparently my "EA Gold" CD is one of the worst "misbehavers".
The version I'm using is a zipped install (with the American Revolt expansion installed too) off my old (OLD!) machine from 1994, which I've since lost the original floppies for. I'm pretty sure it's the original release of the game, dunno what they changed in the CD version. I'd give ya the date of the game executable but it was overridden when I burned it all to CD back in 1998. My version of MAIN.EXE is 489,529 bytes.
I'm running the latest version of VDMSound, with all the updates. Via the launchpad I enabled VESA support, DPMI support, and standard Soundblaster settings. I got frequent slowdowns and crashes until I used that newer version of DOS4GW I mentioned, that seems to be the secret.
I'm running Win2K, service pack 4 on a 1.2GHz Athlon, ASUS A7V motherboard, SBLive sound with Geforce4 4200 video.