For 2000 you had to use a wrapper (or modify game files) and copy over some XP dlls. Nowadays (and for years now) BWC would be the way to go.
For 98SE you might be able to get away with kernelex w/updates assuming you had a supported GPU, drivers and rloew memory patch.

DosFreak wrote on 2024-09-19, 21:57:

For 2000 you had to use a wrapper (or modify game files) and copy over some XP dlls. Nowadays (and for years now) BWC would be the way to go.
For 98SE you might be able to get away with kernelex w/updates assuming you had a supported GPU, drivers and rloew memory patch.

it's straight up listing 98SE/ME as "supported" on box details, am I missing info?? (I found reddit conversations of a user hoping to try to install/play it, but it is reddit so "grain of salt")
https://www.reddit.com/r/windows98/comments/x … n98se_possible/

I have very vague memory of running the game on a P4 with X850XTPE, running 98SE + Kernelex and it started and gave you a slideshow but was nothing along the lines of playable. The game definitely won't run on vanilla 98SE and KernelEx is necessary for sure.

Tiido wrote on 2024-09-19, 22:41:

I have very vague memory of running the game on a P4 with X850XTPE, running 98SE + Kernelex and it started and gave you a slideshow but was nothing along the lines of playable. The game definitely won't run on vanilla 98SE and KernelEx is necessary for sure.

I'm going to see what I can dig up from the time of release, even then, this "listing 98SE" would have raised eyebrows...someone in the past must have tried "at the time"

Edit: Also, I'm pretty sure the 1st time I played Crysis it was on a ATI 9800xt 256mb, over AGP, on a late era 478 p4 (I think it was a 3.0ghz 800mhz FSB) rig, on XP
"in era" I could never get it to run well or maxed out

aazard wrote on 2024-09-19, 21:36:

- Released on May 5th, 2009 [/b] (thats like 11yrs after the OS's release!)

Crysis was 2007.

Crysis was heavy because a lot of inefficient memory-reading on the GPU and the overdraw strained everything (new ambient occlusion effects plus water reflections) so it got memed as the ultra computer killer.

leileilol wrote on 2024-09-19, 23:27:

aazard wrote on 2024-09-19, 21:36:

- Released on May 5th, 2009 [/b] (thats like 11yrs after the OS's release!)

Crysis was 2007

"Maximum Edition". tri-dis release was released on May 5th, 2009 (where the spec list "98SE & ME" on box/case)

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/pc/956125-crysi … um-edition/data

Print error. Euro releases say Vista/XP.

I am certain what you are seeing is a print error. I remember dealing with the hacks to get Warhead running on Windows 2000.

Looks like the consensus is "100%, that's a print error"... seems NOT present on all other releases of included games/add-ons as well.

Shame, that would have been a very late 9x compatible "AAAA" game release

I have this version of Crysis, and it doesn't install on Windows 98SE. It gives an "Unsupported" type error. It does install on Windows 2000 with the Vanilla kernel (no mods required to run it in my experience).

I just realized that I never tried to install my copy of Crysis on Windows Me. It might work...

I'll have to give it a try tomorrow if I find the time.

Nope, it doesn't install in Windows Me either. The error message says it needs a minimum of Windows 2000 SP3.