Dune 2 and Xp

[Emperor Harkonnen]

I have got the original Dune 2 which was released in 92(or something) and it worked for win 98, but when I upraded my computer to XP, the game got pretty f*cked up. When I started the game, the screen were in all kind of colors and I couldn't see the menu, although the intro worked fine.

What is wrong?

[Timenn]

Try run it from the program prompt (like the dos-prompt) in the start menu under bureau accessories, icon looks like a dos-prompt.

[Emperor Harkonnen]

That is exactly what I have been doing, cos I never managed to run it from Win

[Gobalopper]

Did you try the emulation mode options in XP?

[jacobdouds]

Have you tried reinstalling it?

[Emperor Harkonnen]

huh, what is the emulation mode options?

Yes, I will try to reinstall it, but I want the save games kept, which file have got the save-games?

[gryphon]

It's a long time ago that the game was installed with me, but warn't the savings kept in a seperate directory. "Data" probbebly ? Thought they all ended on *.sav. But I could be wrong.

[Gobalopper]

If you right click on the .exe file you can set the program to run in Win95, 98 etc emulation modes and it might work then.

[Emperor Harkonnen]

Thanks

[vidiware]

Norwegians and XP, i dont think we fit that OS, its to strange...... ::)

Dune 2 original.... cool, i have only seen it in 96, they wanted 500 nok for it, for that old game....

They hadn't heard about buisness...

But... Dune 2 shall not work under XP, caus XP dont have dos, so to emulate 95/98 is the only way

[el_d00d]

Dune2 does work in XP, you have to change some memory settings.. dunno which

[Emperor Harkonnen]

Yeah, but that's too much trouble for me. SO instead I just installed it on my old win 98 computer. There it worked perfectly.

[Duneguy]

it works fine on xp here, i havnt messed with any memory settings..... i got 256 ram , geforce 2, its all good. pentium 4

[jacobdouds]

Damn, I missed this topic. Well , enjoy XP.

[mr-t]

uhm...try changing your display colours (right click the desktop and click properties) from whatever you have to 256 colours. that might help (might not, either)

[Caid Ivik]

Install W95 and you'll have Dune II with music and sounds too.

[vidiware]

I have sounds and music in W98

[gryphon]

Without adjustments I don't even have Dune II in DOS 6.2 ::)

Let stand alone in '95 or higher.

[jacobdouds]

works fine for me in XP

[vidiware]

Maby it's just  some bug thing.

I could often run dos games on one of 3 machines, caus cd-rom drivers,mouse conflicts ect.

[Caid Ivik]

Most problems are with sound cards.

[Timenn]

Yeah, the new ones doesn't support the old music codes from old games

[Caid Ivik]

And their sound isn't much better...

[DukeLeto]

Yeah, sounds fine, but no music. :(

[Timenn]

Hmm, I don't have voices, but that's also on my other pc without XP...