Read the description of this forum "Getting old DOS games working on modern hardware. " Ask in Marvin Marvin, the Paranoid Android

Sorry. Can you move the post there? Or shall I repost?

robbo007 wrote on 2020-02-26, 13:01:

Sorry. Can you move the post there? Or shall I repost?

Moved to Marvin -> Software.

Anyone tried this? Cant seem to find out why its failing the install.

robbo007 wrote on 2020-02-26, 09:58:

The website says it's compatible

Could you perhaps tell us which website so we can be sure we're all talking about the same thing?

https://uo.com/system-requirements/
Obviously it could be out of date but I have direct X 9.0c and .netframekwork 2.o plus Windows installer 2.0.

robbo007 wrote on 2020-10-12, 20:47:

Obviously it could be out of date but I have direct X 9.0c and .netframekwork 2.o plus Windows installer 2.0.

To be clear, do you have anything nonstandard like KernelEx installed?

No this is real hardware PIII 400mhz 512mb RAM and Windows 98SE installed.

I can easily imagine that whoever made the installer never expected someone to have 512MB of RAM.

Maybe try using HimemX to restrict your RAM to something like 384, and see if that helps? It's easy enough to try.

(It's also possible that you have too much hard drive space, but in that case I would expect the installer to actually tell you that you don't have enough space, or something.)

Right, I setup a Vmware Windows 98 machine just to test it with lets ram and a 2gb limit on the hard disk. Fails at the same point. I guess the installed is shagged. A shame as It would be great to play it on real hardware and now as they have updated content.

If anyone gets it working please let me know.
Thanks,

Do you have the Microsoft Layer for Unicode installed? That might do it.

I might suggest trying to debug the problem with Filemon to see if the installer is looking for something that doesn't exist, but that is a bit of a longshot.

No, not installed. Do I just extract it to the C:\windows\system directory to install it?

It should probably go in System32.

darn. no good. Same dumping out from the installer. I wish there was a way to log the installer to see exactly what is failing. I've tried it on a VMware windows 98 machine limiting the ram to 256MB and using a 2GB hard disk. Same symptoms.

robbo007 wrote on 2020-10-14, 08:41:

I wish there was a way to log the installer to see exactly what is failing.

Yes, that's why I mentioned Filemon. 😉

Alternatively, if it uses something standard like Installshield, then there are unpackers available for that sort of thing.

Right... I'm delving into unknown territory here ..

Filemon seems to show loads of info. I can't really see anything blatant that looks like an error.

The file UOClassicSetup_7_0_24_0.exe is compressed with Winrar. Once uncompressed I see the setup.exe. This seems to be a Nullsoft Installer. (According to DIE) Using a unzipper on setup.exe I can unzip the goodies where I have two directories:

NSIS Plugins Directory (seems to have dll's and an ini file)
Windows Temporary Directory (seems to have dll's etc)

I fear I'm way to far down the rabbit hole now...

Just to be sure: are you sure this version of the Classic Client installs under other versions of Windows? (Perhaps you can try a VM?)

robbo007 wrote on 2020-10-14, 20:54:

Filemon seems to show loads of info. I can't really see anything blatant that looks like an error.

In case it's not obvious, you should definitely close anything that might be running in the background before starting Filemon so that it isn't logging anything until you run the installer.

I fear I'm way to far down the rabbit hole now...

Unfortunately I have never tried to analyze an NSIS install script.

I was going to suggest that maybe it tries to read the system date for some reason, but if it's just NSIS, it couldn't be that exotic.

ok... cant seem to get any further. Getting a little lost on it all. Guess its got to be a stupid little problem with the installer but not sure..

robbo007 wrote on 2020-10-25, 20:55:

ok... cant seem to get any further. Getting a little lost on it all. Guess its got to be a stupid little problem with the installer but not sure..

Hi, I have the same issue, did you manage to solve it?