Has anyone played Clandestiny under XP?

Cheers,

Bill

Hi,
My name is Rick.
I have BAAGS.
I love my DELL XP.
It took me (4) years to learn Win 98.
I hope and pray, by 2007, I'll know WIN XP.

The Rustin Parr Game loaded up and played just fine on my XP.

to Mr Bill
I'll be happy to test it for you.


I just finnished playing "Morpheus" on my XP, and had no significant problems with it.

Inferno

Inferno,
Thanks for the info on Blair Witch. I couldn't decide whether to get the trilogy for my son; he uses XP. I may go for it if I find it cheap.

I couldn't install Pandora's Box in Windows XP. Does anyone know why? <img border="0" alt="" title="" src="graemlins/cry.gif" />

Clandestiny and Pandora's Box, huh?
ok ....I'll try to find some time this week to work on it ...I have both of these games.

I just finnished playing a great game called Blackstone Chronicles on my XP had to do some minor tweaking:

• Uninstalled all versions of Quicktime, then installed the version that came with the game
• Did not install DirectX6 (kept my version)
• Right clicked for Compatibility mode for the shortcut to the program. Selected the following: Win98 and then checked the box marked : Disable visual themes and the box marked:Turn off advanced services for this program.

Worked like a charm.
What a marvelously creepy game. I'm going to add it to my XP compatible list on my webpage.

Inferno

Hi Mr Bill
Unfortunately I'm not able to get Clandestiny
to play although it installs just fine. I wonder if it has the same problem that "Amber" has...something called "Page Swapping" well, that's what my IT manager said at work. Does anyone know exactly what "Page Swapping" means??
Inferno

There is a pagefile.sys file (for NT/2K/XP machines). This file is your swap file (virtual memory).

Page swapping is the use of virtual memory (space on the HD to mimic having more RAM... it is slower than RAM, but used in emergencies when RAM runs out).


That's funny, John Saul's Blackstone Chronicles loaded just fine on XP for me without having to use compatibility mode or any tweaks to normal configuration. Great game.

Does anyone know about the Monkey Island games? I'm playing 4, so I know that one works okay, but how about 1, 2 and 3?

Sorry CatintheHat, I won't be able to help you
I thought I had this game, but the Game I have is called Pandora Directive.
Inferno

Mary: Monkey Island Madness (re-release of 1 & 2 with enhancements on 1 cd) works beautifully on XP... for me anyway. Curse of Monkey Island (part 3) loaded and ran fine... for awhile. Once you talk to the little boy beside the cannon (beginning of the game) and go into the next room, you can play a little, but it would crash there. I have experienced this on 2 different machines. I do not know if this is a bug in the game, but both operating systems used were Windows XP.

To Cat in a Hat: I couldn't get Pandora's Box to run with XP, either. It installed OK, but when I tried to run it, I got a message that it was incompatable with my OS. Fortunately, I still have my old computer with Win98SE, where it runs fine.

Fanatic,
I have the original games, not Monkey Island Madness. I'm getting kind of bummed seeing how many of those "good old games" (or not so old) will not work on XP.

Has anyone had any luck with loading Byzantine? I got all of my older games to load ok, but this one wouldn't even start. It gave me an error messge that it needed Windows 95 to load (although I did have it loaded on my other computer under Windows 98!). I'm a bit worried about tweaking the computer too much, so I guess I could just load it back onto the old computer and play it on that one.
Sequoia

Hi Guys:
I just finished Obsidian on my XP and it run perfectly without a hitch. No tweaking necessary on that one for me. (I've added it to the list.)
I'll guess I'll work on Jekyll & Hyde to see if it plays through for me.
Inferno

Hi Sequoia! Your done! whew!</font></li></ul><font size="3" face="verdana,arial,helv"> Now just go ahead and select the icon and begin the adventure.

Inferno

P.S I haven't gotten very far in this game...I seem to be in some sort of an apartment. Let me know how far you get.

I played Byzantine with XP in compatibility modr Win 95. I have an Alienware PC and it is quite fast. I think I also had to the graphics acceleration and maybe even the sound. I don't recall any real glitches.
Has anyone had any success running "Shivers 2"?
Katie

Ok....Glitch #1: My game seems to freeze when the telpnone rings. I can't pick up the phone. Any ideas?
Inferno

I've figured out how to turn off my auto save function but still can't pick up the phone.
....I really could use some help here.

Inferno

For my good friend Inferno:
Thanks to your quiet voice and all those encouraging smiley faces I took the plunge and gave the tweaking a try! And it worked like a charm. I didn't even break out in a sweat doing it either.

The only thing different for me is that after I was done it did not ask me to install it again, I guess my PC had given up by then.

I decided to not tranfer over any of my saves, it's been long enough since I last played the game that I am just starting over new. So I'm to where I did get the phone call and it worked fine for me. When you get to the desk and are at a close up of the phone do you not get the hand cursor? What exactly is not working for you?

Thanks so much for all of the help you gave me Inferno!!!
Sequoia

Hi Sequioa:
The hand cursor becomes the magnifying glass when the phone is ringing. Left click changes it to a close up of the telephone. When I pass the cursor over the reciever it then changes to a pair of lips. When I left click on the reciver with that cursor the ringing stops as I think its supposed to but....the cursor then changes into an hour glass. and the game freezes for me at this point. Syd was nice enough to send me a save for a workaround. I'm hoping it will work.
Are you using MOslo or Turbo along with the game? I'm wondering at this point as to whether I should try increasing my Virtual Memory.
Inferno

***************Later****************

Well, the saved game didn't work at all......
However I dcided to uninstall the program, restart my system. This time I increased my Virtual Memory, installed the progrm on my DVD drive (I think it runs a little slower than my CDROM) et viola! I have Byzantine up and running on my Win XP.
Let's see if I can run it to the end...if I do then I'll add it to the "Finished List"
Inferno

Just an Xp Update, for all y'all!

I just finished playing Byzantine through without one crash. I'm begining to wonder just what the real reason is behind some of the larger companies who say certain games are not compatible with Xp, Could it be that they just don't want to take the time to test it properly for us??? .....or in my case take some wacky chances and "wing" it.

....Anywho I say:
" Xp'ers unite! No guts no Glory! Goonies never say die!


(*** what the heck did I just say? Where did that come from??? oh well***) I'll be quiet now
inferno

SuMac: Thanks for trying. What's ironic is that Pandora's Box is made by Microsoft, I think.

Strange!! I can play Pandora's Box fine on my computer running Windows XP Home Edition. Never had to do any tweaking or run any patches or anything. I have played it right through once and I am thinking of playing it again I enjoyed it so much. Maybe it's certain hardware in some computers that it doesn't like. You would think that it being a Microsoft game it would work fine with any of their operating systems. But then Microsoft tends to be fussy with hardware <img border="0" alt="" title="" src="graemlins/woozy.gif" />