io organic industrialism on 19/8/2003 at 05:50
anybody else successful with this lately? i've never played tera nova but i've always been interested in it (i play thief) so i'd like to check it out sometime if it can definitely run on windows 2000
Raisen on 23/4/2004 at 20:49
Anyone know where to get the LIVE dos drivers mentiones way above?
garethhinds on 19/9/2004 at 19:31
Good info! I got TN running under VDMS and NOLFB. Truly a beautiful thing. Well, in a pixellated kind of way :P
But man, it is unstable as all get-out. Any notions of how to make it behave nicer? I'm running under XP (home), on a P4 2.4 with an ABIT GeForce4 Ti4400 and 1G RAM.
How 'bout those palette trashes too, eh? I mean, I was at LG at the time and I have an idea how much hackery went into it, so I'm surprised it works at all, but...
Shadowcat on 22/9/2004 at 05:53
Hi Gareth!! It's always great to see LGT alumni here on the forums :) I certainly remember your name popping up in credit listings. Thanks for dropping by!
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Truly a beautiful thing. Well, in a pixellated kind of way :P
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I can't help but agree. And you know, people *still* don't make 3D engines that draw way into the distance like TN did. (Actually, Far Cry has a pretty good draw distance, IIRC. Most games still have the mysterious fog effect in full force, though.)
I don't have any help for the unstability, I'm sorry. Have you installed either of the XP service patches? (I don't know whether that would make the situation better or worse, but it might be useful information).
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I have an idea how much hackery went into it, so I'm surprised it works at all
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garethhinds on 27/9/2004 at 01:38
Service Pack 1. I hear too many bad things about 2.
Well, I probably won't be able to play through under these conditions, but I can at least tool around a bit for old times' sake, and show the game to my friends. Thanks!
G
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Drat on 11/10/2004 at 15:47
Edit: Never mind, I just saw in another topic a reference to such a problem. The solution appears to be the Vesafix thing.
Edit: Did the trick, well and truly.
I'm trying to run the demo on my windows 98/DOS machine. In 98 the whole system freezes up, and in DOS, the game exits after a few seconds with a page fault.
It can't have anything to do with audio as it does it even with sound and music disabled. Any ideas? If you need the readout, you'll have to wait, as I am posting on the same machine right now, and it won't be offline for quite some time.
TheGreatGodPan on 23/12/2004 at 03:37
I can't even install it. It says it won't run in Win 95 (even though it's XP) and that it will go to DOS, but my XP computer doesn't have DOS so it does nothing. I've tried running it from command, but it won't work there either. I put it on my old Win 95 computer, but it did the same thing from Windows, and when I tried installing it from DOS it said it doesn't work from DOS! I tried going to that website with VDMSound or whatever, but the mirror I tried wouldn't work, I think I'll try another though.
Edit: I downloaded & installed VDMSound & nolfb, but when I right click on stuff, I don't get the option, so nothing has changed.
Sensen on 29/6/2005 at 19:58
I've seen all this stuff you've all written, and I gotta say, I'm an idiot. Most of it doesn't make sense to me, and some of it is out of date. The page that Fitgerald linked to is down, and that seems to be the way that was most often successful.
As it is, I was wondering if anyone knew anything about running Dos games in DosBox. I've had success getting Xcom: Enemy Unknown running very well. I simply installed Dosbox and D-fend, and they run hand in hand to get my Xcom working very very nice.
Anyone know how to get TN running with these?