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totally clueless on how to setup glidos v1.61 under win98se

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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 don't want to use dosbox mode for performance reasons, but that doesn't work either anyway (with the same error). i just feel stupid at this point.

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Reply 1 of 3, 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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Reply 2 of 3, by stanwebber

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i got it sorted. installing to the dafault program files location (or any location with spaces) breaks glidos under win9x. the dynamic .bat files that glidos generates don't use quotes for any the paths. i moved the glidos folder directly under c:\ to resolve.

that being said, i still can't get glidos working on my system for any of the 3 games in either opengl or d3d mode due to some incompatibility (presumably with my radeon 9800). the games do sort of start, but quickly crash (often the entire system) when any 3d rendering is attempted. there might be some magic combination of settings to make it work, but i haven't found it yet.

Last edited by stanwebber on 2026-09-09, 08:16. Edited 1 time in total.

Reply 3 of 3, by stanwebber

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is glidos more than a frontend for openglide and psvoodoo? could i attempt to get (older) versions of those working independantly and integrate them back into glidos or is that too simplistic? (i suppose i will try older releases of glidos as well.)

there's no uninstaller for glidos. it appears everything is done in ini & bat files so is the installer only copying files to the install directory and creating shortcuts on the start menu & desktop? no registry or windows folder modifications?

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