Act of War - Windows 98 ?

[tbaher]

I know this is none of my business but you have 2 options..
either buy winxp home for $50 (almost the same as a videogame)
and then you can play the game. (and life will be better in general.. but that's not my business)
Or be angry about not getting a refund and losing $50 ..
..


Edit:
Of course there is ebay.. but.. you want to play the game right?

[herc]

About the open-box-"law" it is the same here in sweden, the only chance to get a new one is if the CD was broken when the game was purchased. Sometimes not even that will be enough for them, as they claim that you have broken it yourself...

yeah,that's carp, the customer is always the dumbass...

I know this is none of my business but you have 2 options..
either buy winxp home for $50 (almost the same as a videogame)
and then you can play the game. (and life will be better in general.. but that's not my business)
Or be angry about not getting a refund and losing $50 ..

i allready have WinXP,but its hard to work in a new OS,
install all the other drivers,programs,games...
but i think sometime it has to be...thanks again ATARI

i hope the game is worth the trouble

[tbaher]

I just wiped XP so I know what you mean .. I finally migrated from my trusty old 15GB HDD to a 160GB as a C: Drive .. (I had 5 other hard drives running in the box but the C: was a 15GB)

The drivers are not a problem at all .. between driverguide and manufacturer's websites.. you will get drivers for all the obscure hardware..
XP has MOST of the drivers built in or on windows update..

the problem is that you will lose "shutdown to dos" .. which is easily fixed by DOSBOX..

I recommend putting XP, if you have enough RAM .. performance will be better and life will be better in general.. (if you're annoyed by the new interface you can make it more classic)

[DABhand]

I bought it and tried on a smaller PC with win98 on it, and it worked fine for me.

Then I got bored a bit and made a proper +2 trainer (since other ones *cough* dont work *cough*) :P

[herc]

I bought it and tried on a smaller PC with win98 on it, and it worked fine for me

well that is impossible,cause today i got an email(now nearly 2Weeks ago)
from the Atari-support and there confirmed that this game runs only on
Win2000/XP,
what is the size of your AOW exe (12,943 kb?) ?
maybe you can upload this one on rapidshare ?

[DABhand]

It worked.

Specs are

1.3ghz Duron
512mb ram
Geforce FX5200 256mb
Audigy S/card
120GB SATA HD

Latest drivers and directx9c installed, oh and this Win98 was SE. What is yours?


If it didnt work then how did I make the trainer for it? To make that I have to have run the game.

[herc]

hmmm...my specs:

AMD 2400XP
512MB RAM(Kingston)
Inno Geforce3
onbard soundcard
DirectX9c
also Win98SE

again,what's the size of your exe,upload this one ?

[DABhand]

Ill tell you just now, it was the original exe from the game. Didnt use a no-cd at all.

20.4MB is the size.

[Grumpy]

@Dabhand
Hehehe youve got 'herc' stumped! He wouldnt be real happy to know you have it working on 98! I certainly hope with all the trouble he is having that the game is worth it when he does get it working! If he gets it working!

[DABhand]

Game is nice

Its like C&C reinvented, the installer was good also with the 5 min newscast while the game installed, very good idea to get you in the mood sorta

[herc]

He wouldnt be real happy to know you have it working on 98

yeah really

the size of my original exe is 12,943 kb (not a no-cd patch/crack),
maybe because its the german version

can you upload your's ?

ATARI

[Grumpy]

@herc
I really do sympathise with you but you cant ask for original exe's here! Its against the forum rules.

[DABhand]

@herc try the securom fix from first page, they released a game exe for anyone having problems starting the game.

its about 20mb also.

[TRV]

The above mentioned Atari Homepage Link fools the users.

Neither the collectors nor the normal gamebox have win98 in their requirements. Just seen today in store...

[tbaher]

herc i sympathize .. but here's the problem .. are you willing to go through all that to get the game to work .. only to find that -since atari say 98 is unsupported- the game is untested on 98..

ie. bugs with no hope for a patch to fix them

OR .. bugs that already exist in the game and the new patch that fixes them doesnt work in 98.. (even if u get the game to work by exchanging exes or performing small miracles)