I cant get moo2 to work on WinXP

"TXZZ" <superoutland.DeleteThis@aol.com> wrote in message
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> even when I use DOSBOX and compatibility tabs the screen always goes
> blank why is that
>

Huh? I have been playing moo2 a lot lately on Windows XP. First, without
any patches. And then later with the latest patch.

Did not have any problems at all.
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were you using XP pro or home. im using home
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Tried to get it to run.
Did not work but I fuguered out why needs a FAT partition on the HD wont
work with a NTFS.
I added a hd with Fat-32 now it runs no problem

"TXZZ" <superoutland.TakeThisOut@aol.com> wrote in message
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> even when I use DOSBOX and compatibility tabs the screen always goes
> blank why is that
>
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"TXZZ" <superoutland.RemoveThis@aol.com> wrote in message
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> were you using XP pro or home. im using home
>

I am using XP Home too. Can't afford XP Pro.

Sorry that I could not be of much help.

My only problem with the game is that it keeps reading the CD and I have to
copy the
whole CD to the HD so as to stop the whirring noises coming from the CD.
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In comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic Zyan <koty RemoveThis @pacific.net.sg> wrote:
> Sorry that I could not be of much help.
>
> My only problem with the game is that it keeps reading the CD and I have to
> copy the
> whole CD to the HD so as to stop the whirring noises coming from the CD.

Reduce your CD-ROM drive speed to 8x. That'll get rid of the spin-up
delay. Ahead's Nero comes with a "drive speed" utility that does this
for most drives.

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"Rick Ryan" <nighthawk.RemoveThis@axecessnet.net> once tried to test me with:

> Tried to get it to run.
> Did not work but I fuguered out why needs a FAT partition on the HD wont
> work with a NTFS.
> I added a hd with Fat-32 now it runs no problem

Works fine for me on an NTFS partition. I didn't do anything special, just
installed the game using the installer, then I went and edited the
orioncd.ini file to point to a subdirectory of my Moo2 folder, and I copied
the contents of the CD to that subfolder. Now I do not need the CD in the
drive when I play.

I haven't installed any patches, may try some of that later. I really just
wanted to make sure it worked on Windows XP since it's one of my all time
favorite games, and I played a few hundred turns and it seems to work ok
apart from the mouse sometimes acting sluggish.

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Then, what on earth could your computer have that mine doesn't?
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In article <1116997966.493612.124800.TakeThisOut@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
superoutland.TakeThisOut@aol.com says...
> even when I use DOSBOX and compatibility tabs the screen always goes
> blank why is that

There should be two exe files in your moo2 installation - a dos one and
a Win95 one. The Win95 one runs fine on my XP system, FAT32 partition,
SP1. I have set it to run in Win95 compatibility mode.

I imagine the dos version will run fine in dosbox, although I have not
tested this out.
Actually , just started d-fend 2 (dos box front end) created a profile
for the dos exe and it ran just fine. No problemo. I have copied all
files to the MOO2 direcory so it doesn't need the CD. If you are trying
to play off the CD, you may have to mount the CD drive from dosbox as a
cdrom before the program will run.

h.t.h.
-Peter
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> There should be two exe files in your moo2 installation - a dos one and
> a Win95 one. The Win95 one runs fine on my XP system, FAT32 partition,
> SP1. I have set it to run in Win95 compatibility mode.

Exactly. It even runs quite well without compatibility mode. It's completely
beyond me, why anyone should want to bother with the DOS exe instead of
using the Windows/DirectX one.
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In article <d79f8t$c6$00$1@news.t-online.com>,
dirk.dreidoppel.RemoveThis@deadspam.com says...
> > There should be two exe files in your moo2 installation - a dos one and
> > a Win95 one. The Win95 one runs fine on my XP system, FAT32 partition,
> > SP1. I have set it to run in Win95 compatibility mode.
>
> Exactly. It even runs quite well without compatibility mode. It's completely
> beyond me, why anyone should want to bother with the DOS exe instead of
> using the Windows/DirectX one.
>

I used to get crashes from time to time as I recall, but since I set it
to run in compatibility mode I haven't had any. Seems it's not the same
for everybody

-P.
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Dirk Dreidoppel schrieb:

> Exactly. It even runs quite well without compatibility mode. It's completely
> beyond me, why anyone should want to bother with the DOS exe instead of
> using the Windows/DirectX one.

Try to play multiplayer with the win version. Then you know why all
multiplayer veterans prefer the dos version. (See StepNRazor's Links
for details)
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On 29 May 2005 08:20:41 -0700, kakophoniker.DeleteThis@gmx.de wrote:

>
>
>Dirk Dreidoppel schrieb:
>
>> Exactly. It even runs quite well without compatibility mode. It's completely
>> beyond me, why anyone should want to bother with the DOS exe instead of
>> using the Windows/DirectX one.
>
>Try to play multiplayer with the win version. Then you know why all
>multiplayer veterans prefer the dos version. (See StepNRazor's Links
>for details)

I've played the Windows multiplayer (hotseat), and didn't see anything
wrong... I also don't have the Dos version to know what was missing to
begin with.

Can you elaborate on what was missing?
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> Try to play multiplayer with the win version. Then you know why all
> multiplayer veterans prefer the dos version. (See StepNRazor's Links
> for details)

Point taken. I have limited multiplayer experience with MoO 2, but I do
remember that the connection would often die with computers of massively
different speeds taking part. No issues with similar machines though.
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