This is the 1996 FMV game (with Christopher Walken)? I thought it was a Win9x title.

Yes, that would be the one =)
IBM Compatible with 486 processor
(50 mhz minimum recommended)
Double speed CD ROM
VGA Card with 512 k mem, VESA compatible or VESA driver installed.
10 mb HDD space
Sound card (uses HMI sound drivers, eh? 😮)
6.5Mb free extended memory (XMS)
Mouse
"Supports" Windows 95.

...and to think this was "innovative" in 1996 😁

at any rate, I cannot get it running in XP with abandon loader and VDM sound loaded, and on my 450 mhz HP (that I keep around with win 98 just for this reason, because I love a lot of the older win 95 / DOS games, Hell, BloodNet, Phantasmagoria to name a few 😀) the video is messed up, but I found a patch so I will try that, but it crashed out of the first scene at the murder site with some lpl library not found error or something and a dos prompt C:\RIPPER>.... bah, maybe I'll just lump it 🙁
Any ideas let me know, thanks!

Evildrak wrote:

Yes, that would be the one =)
6.5Mb free extended memory (XMS)
"Supports" Windows 95.

Yep, sounds like another "Dos title that works WINDOWS 95" title.

... and on my 450 mhz HP (that I keep around with win 98 just for this reason, because I love a lot of the older win 95 / DOS games, Hell, BloodNet, Phantasmagoria to name a few

Suggest you keep this setup or a Dual-Boot for quite some time to come. Progress is being made, but there's a long way to go before you can consistently run your old titles on the NT-based OS's. I can barely get "Blood" to run under XP with all the settings cranked down. So I leave it on my Win98 partition, where I can run it at high-resolution with all the settings maxed. Right now, it's just not worth the effort to run it on XP.

...it crashed out of the first scene at the murder site with some lpl library not found error or something ...

Sounds like it wants a library file that's different (or no longer there) under XP. If you can find the exact name of the file, search your Win98 PC for it and try copying it to the game directory on the XP machine.

Those errors are on the Windows 98 machine...
I haven't applied the patch though yet, I will let you know.
This site is truly a godsend for those of us 'retro' PC gamers!

Many thanks to all of you who have helped me thus far...
I'll let you know if the patch helps..
I look forward to the day someone comes out with a front end or something that will run these games....I mean there is DOSbox, but I could never get it to run, and there's abandon loader with VDM sound, but not all games will run. This is understandable though, for obvious reasons....thousands of configurations, blah blah blah 😀
P.S. I can see you're a blood fan, isn't that caleb? Yeah, great game also, yet another reason I keep my old "retro" comp.

Dude, I was *just* playing this the other day and it worked fine [W2K] out of the box, so I'm not sure what's up with your computer/version.

What are your system specs?
Has anyone tried it in XP pro also?
Thanks! 😀

cpu : AMD Athlon XP1800+ (o/c 1533MHz)
mobo : MSI K7T266 Pro2-RU (VIA KT266A chipset; USB2.0 support; embedded RAID)
ram : 1-DIMM 512MB PC-2100 DDR SDRAM
3.5" : some cheap $14 piece of shit
keyb : Logitech 105-key membrane keyboard (three internet keys (www, mail, search))
mous : Microsoft Intellimouse with Intellieye (optical; corded; wheelmouse)
dvd : Sony DDU-1621 (RPC-1 (region-free [hack]))
cdrw : Plextor Plexwriter 161040A (16/10/40x; BURNproof)
hdd1 : IBM Deskstar 60GXP (60GB; 7200RPM) > RAID-0 striping array with HDD2
hdd2 : IBM Deskstar 60GXP (60GB; 7200RPM) > RAID-0 striping array with HDD1
hdd3 : Western Digital Caviar WD800BB (80GB; 7200RPM)
enet : D-Link DFE-530TX+ PCI (10/100; 100Mbps)
inet : Toshiba PCX1100U (cable; 2Mbps down, 384Kbps up)
vid : Hercules 3D Prophet III Titanium 500 (nVidia GeForce3 Ti500 chipset)
tvt : ATI TV-WONDER PCI
crt : NEC MultiSync FE1250+ (22"; .25mm dot pitch; flat; black)
snd : Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy eX (IEEE1394; IR; optical I/O; S/PDIF I/O; MIDI)
spkr : Klipsch ProMedia 5.1 (THX certified, bla bla)
ops : Windows 2000 Professional (build 2195; Service Pack 3)
prnt : Hewlett Packard DeskJet 660C (150-300dpi)
scan : EPSON Perfection 1650 PHOTO (1600dpi non-interpolated; 3200dpi interpolated)
ups : Please buy me one! ~_^
case : Lian-Li PC60-USB (aluminium)
usb1 : Intel CS330 internet camera
usb2 : Palm M505 (no extension card)
usb3 : PS-PC USB Dual Shock Converter (MadCatz DualForce controller; translucent blue)
usb4 : Nikon Coolpix 995 (3.3Mpix; 4x optical zoom; CompactFlash types I and II; swivel)

My parents are too rich and they spoil me. Apologies for my uberl33t setup. In any case, Ripper works with it.

Snover wrote:

cpu : AMD Athlon XP1800+ (o/c 1533MHz)
(list edited to keep server from locking up)

Geez, Snover. What? No holographic-projection?

Oh well,
Shit happens I guess...I'll just try to run it on on 98 system again...
Thanks anyway:(

You shouldn't give up so easily, but it's just weird that it works fine here and not with XP. Maybe you should do a complete downgrade to 2000 or something.

Snover wrote:

You shouldn't give up so easily, but it's just weird that it works fine here and not with XP.

I actually have this game and XP. But right now, I have no clue where it is. When (if) I ever find it, I'll be sure to test it.

Snover wrote:

You shouldn't give up so easily, but it's just weird that it works fine here and not with XP. Maybe you should do a complete downgrade to 2000 or something.

DOWNGRADE??!!! I've got tech doc's stating right here that MS dropped the "Pro" theme in XP because Corporate types like the "Luna" theme more...and we all know how much corporate types actually use the "Pro" os for "Pro" work. 😠 Pissed me off when I read that crap and verified my opinion that 2K Pro is more Pro than XP Pro. M(#&$&! GO#*##*! AAAAAAAAAAARRGGHHH!! 😮

I don't understand how anyone would like that theme. It's so childish and ugly.

I tried everything on XP, if any of you can get this running for me, I'd be grateful... By the way, all of you guys are some of the nicest, most helpful on any forum.
Thank you for all your help thus far...
P.S. If you want be to burn/ ship you my copy, I'd be glad to, if it means you can get it to work...
Thank you,
~Drak

The README To the patch for Ripper (http://www.talonsoft.com/patches/take2/ripper.html) gives some clues:

Changes from Ripper v1.03 to Ripper v1.05: [July 30 1996] […]
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Changes from Ripper v1.03 to Ripper v1.05: [July 30 1996]

- Added a workaround for a buggy CD-ROM driver (from Mitsumi) that mostly
affected Compaq Presario and Hewlett Packard computers with S3 Trio
video chipsets (this has nothing to do with the video card or chipset).

- Added command line option to select your Ripper. To use, type one of:

RIPPER /1
RIPPER /2
RIPPER /3
RIPPER /4

to start the game and use a particular Ripper. This can be combined with
other command line options (i.e., RIPPER /1 /V3).

Changes from Ripper v1.02 to Ripper v1.03: [March 29 1996]

- Added command line options to INSTALL, SETUP, and RIPPER to disable
support for Vesa 2.0, disable use of protected mode bank switching code,
or both. Use /V1, /V2, or /V3 (respectively) to disable these features.
Example:
RIPPER /V3
This will run Ripper, disabling support for both Vesa 2.0 and protected
mode bank switching code.

You can still use the /V option to force Ripper to run in 480 line mode.

If you experience black screens or apparent lock ups, try this:
RIPPER /V /V3

- RIPPER now prints out the error number that DOS reports when it gets
a CD read error. This should help Take 2's technical support staff to
diagnose the problem.

Changes from Ripper v1.01A to Ripper v1.02: [March 16, 1996]

- Fixed restore game problem where it would delete the contents of the
W.A.C. notebook.

- Corrected problem that could cause graphic glitches behind the mouse
cursor on Tseng video chips.

Changes from Ripper v1.01 to Ripper v1.01A: [March 11, 1996]

Changes from Ripper v1.0 to Ripper v1.01: [March 8, 1996]

- Prints the version number when you quit the game.

- Fixed problems relating to Vesa 2.0 drivers. This, in particular, caused
various display problems for different parts of the game on the Matrox
Millenia video card.

- Fix various problems relating to bad values in C:\TAKE2.INI and
RIPPER.INI.

- Exit gracefully if there isn't a CD in the CD-ROM drive when you start
the game.

- Fixed several problems with the WAC Notebook.

- Implemented ripper choice cycling. This will guarantee a different
ripper each time you start a game until all 4 possible Rippers have been
selected. Then it resets and randomly selects the next one (for the 5th
new game). To have it randomly choose from all 4 suspects, delete the
SETTINGS.DEF file.

The Ripper Team

But instantly, when I click the install.bat....poof! nothing...
Thanks again

Nicht Sehr Gut wrote:

I actually have this game and XP. But right now, I have no clue where it is. When (if) I ever find it, I'll be sure to test it.

Be sure that you do. His problem's quite mystifying.

DosFreak wrote:

...MS dropped the "Pro" theme in XP because Corporate types like the "Luna" theme more... (#&$&! GO#*##*! AAAAAAAAAAARRGGHHH!! 😮

All this rage over a theme. Themes are like TV channels. Don't like it, change it.

Did you try it WITHOUT the patch? Make sure you run INSTALL.BAT from a command window so that it (the window) doesn't automatically close when it's done.