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First post, by Thraka

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Been trying to get Windows 3.11 to play Silent Steel but it kept complaining about a missing MCI MPEG driver. After installing quicktime, the machine locks up any time quicktime is run or the MCI Quicktime driver is clicked on in the control panel.

How do I remove a driver without the control panel? 🙁

Reply 1 of 8, by Jorpho

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With Windows 3.11? There's no easy way. You'll probably want to remove any references to the driver's files in WIN.INI and SYSTEM.INI, as well as the driver's various files. This might take some trial and error.

The easiest way to be sure would be to start over with a fresh copy of Windows 3.11 (in DOSBox, perhaps), track the changes the installer makes, and then reverse the changes in your normal copy of Windows 3.11. There are a lot of Win 3.11 utilities that will track such changes. PC Magazine's InCtrl4 is pretty nice, if you can find it.

A better solution in the meantime would be to find the exact version of Quicktime the game requires (these games can be very, very picky) and install that instead. Hopefully it will overwrite whatever is causing the problem.

Reply 2 of 8, by Thraka

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Thanks. I figured it was something like this because I remember having to install those utilities that watched the file system and wrote de-install scripts or something.

The game expects me to have an MCI MPEG Video Driver, finding that, is the problem. The game doesn't install anything.

Reply 3 of 8, by Jo22

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Thraka wrote:

The game expects me to have an MCI MPEG Video Driver, finding that, is the problem. The game doesn't install anything.

I recommend Xing MPEG Player. It works fine, supports older PCs (+386), supports DCI and plays Video CDs and CD-i.
I think there was a little review on the Win31.de page. The player was often bundled with video drivers as a free gift.
A full version with sample videos was also available on a CD, I think.

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In what to one race is no time at all, another race can rise and fall..." - The Minstrel

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Reply 5 of 8, by Jo22

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Hmm, perhaps you're right. But the DOS forum isn't that offtopic. Win 3.x was an DOS application, after all (Win9x was sold as stand-alone product).
And in this case it is needed to run a game. And the problem can occur on both DOSBox and an old PC.
So perhaps the user wasn't sure where to post this and that's why he posted it here, don't know.
But yeah, I think it shouldn't hurt to move that thread to somewhere else.

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In what to one race is no time at all, another race can rise and fall..." - The Minstrel

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Reply 6 of 8, by Thraka

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Correct, this is Win3.1 running on MS-DOS on real hardware.

Reply 7 of 8, by Thraka

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XING worked really well. Thanks!

Reply 8 of 8, by Stiletto

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Moved to Marvin.

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