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First post, by stanwebber

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i'm trying to get glidos working in win98se with the following games: blood, tomb raider and redguard. i can get all 3 games working with dgvoodoo, but glidos completely eludes me. i've read all the glidos guides i could find online, but i must be missing something so elementary simple that no one ever thinks it's necessary to mention.

i installed the win9x/xp version of glidos 1.61 and configured each game to run in windows mode. to start: the dynamic game.bat file that glidos generates attempts to modify the path to use its default install location (c:\program files\glidos) without using quotes or the 8.3 filename which continually breaks the game launch process. once the path is corrected manually--glidos ultimately fails to launch all 3 games showing an error along the lines of...fatal error: unable to load dll (which normally indicates the absence of glide2x.ovl)

what the hell? what step did i miss? am i supposed to copy any files to the game directory? any glide2x.ovl file i copy there is automatically deleted by glidos on game launch so how the hell am i supposed to if required? i do want to use dosbox mode, but that doesn't work either anyway (with the same error). i just feel stupid at this point.

Reply 1 of 1, by Glidos

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It's not your fault. What you have done should work. Having said that, I'm not surprised Glidos has problems on win98se. I haven't had a win98se installation to test on for years, so years of changes haven't been tested there. On the other hand, people quite recently have reported having it work (which surprised me).

The Glidos.bat problem is very odd. That's something I wont have changed and so will have worked at some point in its current form. Can you maybe send a screen shot of the error.

Also, how close to this is your installation directory:

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