By the why: i am using the 1.35 version of glidos and it is not registered so i have this logo spining in the screen, can this be the problem? Does the trial version not support the textures?

OK i solved this problem by my selfe! If someone has the same Problem, here the solution!
I am using a germnan version of WIN XP and ther is no folder "Program files" becouse it is called in german "Programme".
Glidos istals itself into "Programme" And thats all!!!
Make a folder "Program Files" and instal all there and it works in the german version too 😉

Well done. Good to know the cause. Maybe we can fix this in the future.

So the texture packs are installing to Program Files even on a German system?

Glidos, as well as the texture packs ar automaticly installed into the "Programme" Folder in the german version of win XP, but XP makes a difference between "Programme" and "Program files". Normaly most Programs automaticly create a new folder named "Program files" But Glidos dont. And with installed in the "Programme" Folder Glidos works only in normal mode, but not with texture packs! For german XP, the user has to create a folder named "Program files" by himself and has to install glidos and the packs there and then all works fine.

.....and yes the pack do install into: C/Program files , even in the german version.

That doesn't sound right. "Program Files" is a system folder and will be flagged as such even in another language. As long as Glidos (and any other program) use the environment value for this folder, it should always install correctly. Texture packs should also work OK as they use WinRAR self-extractor which also picks up the folder name from the system.

My guess is Glidos installer has it hard-coded -- dunno why WinRAR should also be getting it wrong though?

Hard coding it is the sort of thing I might have done, but Ernie2 seems to be saying that Glidos installs to Programme and the packs to Program Files.

default texture packs (before installing GliDos, but shouldn't matter):
C:\Programme\Glidos\Textures\MatthewHill

default GliDos:
C:\Program Files\Glidos

So the earlier description is wrong, yes?

I can only repeat what i said before! Glidos has installed itself two times into "Programme" and it does not work then with texture packs. Mayby u are right and Glidos was fine, but the texurepacks were in the wrong place. Now it works fine with everything in the Program files folder!

Still a little unclear what is going on. wd seems to disagree.

Yeah, I just tried an install of Glidos again to test and it appears to be hard coded to install to C:\Program Files as my system drive is D:\ and it doesn't pick that up -- come to think of it, it never did -- I've always had to move it to D:\ after installation. (Though of course you can manually edit the install location in the text entry box during install).

I think Ernie is mistaken and WD is correct.

EDIT: reading above again, Ernie says that Glidos installs into Programme, so I'm wrong. I got confused. However, why should this prevent texture packs from working as according to Ernie, they also go into Programme...?

Paul, are there some hard-coded refs to "%SYSDRIVE%\Program Files" in there?

Ernie, you seem to be saying two different things. Please can you CLEARLY state in numbered steps exactly what you're doing, then we can help understand the problem better. There should be no reason for you to create a "Program Files" folder UNLESS there is a bug in Glidos.

Browsing the Glidos installer:
C:\Program Files\Glidos wb
looks hardcoded, and that's what shows up as the default installation
location as well, no matter what language chosen (which shouldn't
matter, well...)

The texture packs seem to correctly identify the program files
folder as C:\Programme here.

That makes sense. Probably isn't hard to fix - except the Windows API for all that sort of thing is really daft.

ok......again.....!

Glidos trys to install itself into PROGRAMME and it works! but if i install texturpacks to PROGRAMME too, it wont work. ( Glidos yes, texturepack no)
If i make a folder PROGRAM FILES and install both there it all works fine

Clear enough?

Do you mean Glidos will install to PROGRAMME if you edit the string in the dialog box?

The thing is, I've taken a look at the source, and I just have code that copies the string "Program Files" into that edit box, so it would be strange if Glidos was using "PROGRAMME" automatically.

In the german version of Windows XP, games and programms wich are ment to be installed on english windows often install themselfs AUTOMATICALY into the GERMAN VERSION OF PROGRAM FILES, WICH IS CALLED PROGRAMME, it is an Windows automatic funktion to make them install there. When i install Glidos i do not change anything. German Windows makes Glidos to install itself into Programme insted of Program Files. Also the Textur packs do that. The difference is that both in "Programme" ( Wich, as i said is the defoult german program files folder) do not work, both in Programfiles DO WORK FINE but i have to make this folder called "Program Files" by my own, becous the german Windows XP dosent know a folder called Programm files! It never has a folder called like that, not even Win 98 had that! in germany it always was called Programme, and in this folder, wich glidos is automaticaly directed to, it only works in normal mode, but not with Textures!
I hope that was Clear enough to be understandable for everyone 😵

So what you are saying is that even though glidos is installed in the programme folder, it still looks for the texture packs in the program files\glidos\textures folder.