AeroSign on 28/1/2008 at 20:34
Hallo again,
Well not surprisingly I can't get FU95 to run on my Vista computer. I can't belive MS finally decided to drop compatibility with Dx 2.0 :-)
I upgraded my rig with a Dual Core 2 and a XFX 8800GT graphics card. I am runnning dual boot with XP on one partition. FU95 run great on the new hardware with XP but it fails in Vista. I get a messagebox saying "ERROR: Can't open cokres" ???!? No such thing in the installation directory.....
Any hints is highly appreciated - even though I fail to keep up my optisimism on this one...
/Aero
d'Spair on 30/1/2008 at 23:36
Did you try the compatibility mode?
AeroSign on 31/1/2008 at 05:40
Quote Posted by d'Spair
Did you try the compatibility mode?
Yes I did, actually all of them....
The errormessage above was actually not due to Vista. I forgot to edit the cfg file to point to the CDRom location. When I did that, it ran a little longer. I saw the splachscreen and heard the intromusic/theme and then it returned to the windows desktop right before showing the FBO.
I had a simmilar issue in XP. But with compatibility mode I was able to make it work. In Vista it seems more fail-persistant.
I did'nt actually expect it to work - but I really wish I could :-)
/Aero
d'Spair on 31/1/2008 at 20:50
Well, I'm afraid I'm of no help here since I never played FU1 (though I have it somewhere on my shelf), but you might also try DOSbox.
Though I'm afraid it's not a DOS game.
AeroSign on 15/5/2008 at 12:59
Well I got it working with excellent framerates. Not in native Vista though but by use of VMware 6.0.
I used this (
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/ws_vidsound_d3d_enabling_vm.html) VMware link to enable DirectX in the VM and then I was able to make FU95 playable with PPJoyJoy, Saitech Rudder, Saitech Aviator stick, TrackIR and TrackMapper. Now it is even easier to move if I get a new PC since everything is setup in a VM image :D
The only "problem" I had was when I created a new VM from scratch in VMware 6.0. Wheter it was 6.0 or the fact that the VM was an XP SP3 I don't know. But when I used a XP SP 2 VM created from my work with VM 5.5 everything worked flawless.
Well.... information passed on...
Cheers
/Aero
Matthew on 15/5/2008 at 13:02
Excellent work AeroSign! Thanks for sharing this with the community, it is always appreciated.
d'Spair on 17/5/2008 at 09:57
Great news, AeroSign!
Good to hear about this small success in a total war of old gamers versus microsoft.
Thor on 12/8/2008 at 10:03
Quote Posted by AeroSign
Hallo again,
Well not surprisingly I can't get FU95 to run on my Vista computer. I can't belive MS finally decided to drop compatibility with Dx 2.0 :-)
I upgraded my rig with a Dual Core 2 and a XFX 8800GT graphics card. I am runnning dual boot with XP on one partition. FU95 run great on the new hardware with XP but it fails in Vista. I get a messagebox saying "ERROR: Can't open cokres" ???!? No such thing in the installation directory.....
Any hints is highly appreciated - even though I fail to keep up my optisimism on this one...
/Aero
Although i'm seriously late for this, i'm gonna say it anyway:
For what i know, Vysta was a mega fail in microsoft corporation and since Vysta, many users have gone to snow leopards (macs) and so on.
Vysta has a nice style, but that's really it. Let's hope they won't make the same mistake with Windows 7...
The bottom like is: Stay with Windows XP SP2 or maybe SP3 or get Linux or Macintosh and everything's going to be like old times, but hey - Old times > New times :)
