Tech Help

kaigun · August 25, 2002, 04:55

ive given up trying to get SMAC to work on XP.....but I have a large partioned HD and still have my 95@and 98 CD Im not very tech minded but Ive heard i can boot from seperate partitions from BIOS ....this I know how to do BUT howe easy is it to install 95 on a seperate partition and not disturb XP on the main drive....

Blake · August 25, 2002, 08:20

WinXP : Does not play nicely with others.

It could very well be difficult... I reccomend a google search for "dual boot winXP win98" or somesuch.

Chowlett · August 25, 2002, 12:41

Difficult but doable. Do a Google search for the details, but the basic ploy is this:

Install 95. You won't be able to choose dual-booting as an option. Therefore computer will always boot into 95.

Now, in 95, start to install XP, making sure you tell it you want a new install and that you'll choose the location for it.

First thing XP has to do in this case is adjust your boot sector to dual-boot into 95 or XP Setup. So when it boots, you'll get a boot menu, with the options of Win 95 or XP setup, and 5 seconds to choose before it defaults to XP setup. Choose 95 instead.

Once there, find the boot.ini file (I think it's an ini) and you can edit manually to give a 95/XP boot menu. However, the syntax isn't entirely clear, so check it out before you start.

The procedure is identical if you want to do it with 98.

Urban Ranger · August 25, 2002, 13:06

Listen to the person who went through the pains to do the same thing.

Chowlett · August 25, 2002, 18:39

Yeah. I had another Quake Fest (read LAN party, and in this case BG2-Fest) on Friday/Saturday. Incredibly everything ran smoothly. I even got the network working first time, under XP - a minor miracle. It appears that XP can't handle the concept of two different networks on the same card, so the solution is to install a second card for the duration of the 'fest.

Anyway, that was highly OT. Ah well, +1

Mark123jansen · August 28, 2002, 08:38

SMAC and SMACX work perfectly on one of my XP computers, the main difference between the two computers is that one of them has a Pentium IV processor, 2000mhz, it doesnt work on that one.

Googlie · August 28, 2002, 09:40

I'm getting both to work on my P4, 1.8 rig. Usual bugs appear more frequently than in ME (interceptor scramble, north pole freeze) and I occasionally just get a total freeze when moving from scenario editor to load game (using the command in the editor)

Haven't had a loadgame freeze from the regular menu, though - but I am using the no-cd crack for both, and not axstart.

G.

Chowlett · August 28, 2002, 15:51

ah, a man with the No-CD crack. You couldn't mail it to me could you?

Tommara · September 11, 2002, 12:18

Quote:

Originally posted by Mark123jansen
SMAC and SMACX work perfectly on one of my XP computers, the main difference between the two computers is that one of them has a Pentium IV processor, 2000mhz, it doesnt work on that one.

I've got a 2.0 GHz P4 too, and can't even get the patched version of SMAC to run on it, so I didn't even try to get a copy of SMAX. It's a Win98 machine. The patched version said "Unknown processor". I uninstalled and re-installed using just the original SMAC files and it works just fine. :\

Chowlett · September 11, 2002, 14:53

Check the Common Questions and Answers FAQ. Have you done the "ForceOldVoxelAlgorithm=1" thing yet (details in that thread)? If not, try it first. If you have, then I don't know.

Mongoose - thanks for the link.