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Chicken Scratch Boy

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« on: June 20, 2004, 09:13:00 AM »
tried fiddling with the video settings?

try putting it in dx or opengl (depneding onw whcih it is already) if posssible.

btwi know you cant get in th emenu try looking for a config or debug exe
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nemt

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« Reply #1 on: June 20, 2004, 09:43:00 AM »
Older 2D games almost always work fine (assuming they work with Win98/95 to begin with) but when 3D gets thrown into the mix, you have a whole mess of trouble.

I tried playing Shadowman on my new PC about a year ago...big mistake.
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J_Man61

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« Reply #2 on: June 20, 2004, 05:19:00 PM »
if you right click on the exe you should let it run in win 95 combadability
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lebriznon

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« Reply #3 on: June 22, 2004, 04:03:00 PM »
QUOTE (J_Man61 @ Jun 20 2004, 06:19 PM)
if you right click on the exe you should let it run in win 95 combadability

you could try looking for a patch. lots of old games with xp problems have patches released for them.
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Raver758

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« Reply #4 on: June 22, 2004, 04:10:00 PM »
had same problem with that game last week so unfort i uninstalled it
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J_Man61

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« Reply #5 on: June 22, 2004, 05:58:00 PM »
on the shortcut that you use to strat the game, right click on it, then go to properties. from there click on the tab that says compadability and choose win 98 from the dropdown box
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« Reply #6 on: June 23, 2004, 02:17:00 PM »
yea, i tried playing the original Aliens Vs Predator (that was on of the best first pc games i ever played, very straight forward) and the aliens were always invisible, the game lagged, and it had little sound, so i said fuck it

is there any way to run dual operating systems on a RAID 0 array (like boot up to windows xp normally, but when i want to play older games, somehow boot up to windows 98)?
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