Reply 20 of 71, by DosFreak
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kjliew wrote on 2021-03-16, 00:34:I have no means to offend and I am sorry to say that. This is just the same lame solution one would often get from the workplace […]
Discrete_BOB_058 wrote on 2021-03-15, 18:26:The only thing I remember from you mentioning a antivirus is, have you tried disabling and running it. If it doesn't work, look out for what other software you have and try uninstalling them one by one and run.
I have no means to offend and I am sorry to say that. This is just the same lame solution one would often get from the workplace IT tech support or the so-called *super-whatever* squads from local big name brick-and-mortar stores. 🤣 Their next favorite is "re-imaging your OS". Whenever I got those type of answers, it just means "the folks don't know anything, I'd better find my own solution and stop wasting my time on them."
Old Windows games ended up in "black screen" and "process not responding" happened all the time on me, too, especially those DirectDraw/Direct3D games from 1997-2002. I still want to play those games and I was really tired of hunting for real solutions. Some might work and some might not, some were lucky to have fans' made after-life revitalization, source ports and remakes for modern Windows, some might not, YMMV. Windows 10 was really a different beast and continue evolving. I never had that many frustration of running old Windows games on Windows 7 even on x64 version.
I had always dream of playing those 1997-2002 Windows games with VM. DOSBox had fulfilled my dream for DOS games. **CENSORED**
No you do mean to offend and you are not sorry.
AV requires submission to the AV companies for false positives, if you don't do that then you need exclusions if it isn't working or if performance is reduced. This happens a lot in the business world, not so much for games.
For Dungeon Keeper 2 I didn't have to make any exclusions in Defender Antivirus or Exploit Protection in 20H1 on a Ryzen 3950x but I didn't patch the game in Windows 10 since I already had installed and patched the game years ago. Adding the exclusion in Defender AV as well as Exploit Protection (or temporarily disabling both) is a good idea.
Everyone here knows about your preferences because you litter every thread with it. I've already told you to start your own thread for games in your custom build.
For anyone wondering I don't use **CENSORED**, that's his own craziness.