XP and FOT: Can they live in harmony?

Stealth Rabbit · Post by **Stealth Rabbit** » Thu Aug 22, 2002 11:54 pm

I just reinstalled XP because I needed to run certain programs thaty wouldnt run under ME for some reason. I checked all my programs, and thought everything was OK, until FOT crapped out. Does anyone else have problems with XP, or is my computer just so fucked up that its amazing it runs?

Flamescreen · Post by **Flamescreen** » Fri Aug 23, 2002 12:33 am

No idea personally, just replying so you don't think that you're being ignored if none replies. There was such a case in old DAC the guy started badmouthing us all and I got very irretated.

I don't think many FoT players have XP(Maybe Max-V?). If you don't get lucky, try the BIS Site forums. I'd say about MicroForte but I don't think they're considered responcible any longer. If anything else fails I'd try Section8's thread in the Modding forum(only as a last resort though. I imagine the man doesn't wan't to be bothered with every little detail)

Max-Violence · Post by **Max-Violence** » Fri Aug 23, 2002 1:29 am

Nope, I'm on WinMe. Sorry, it came with the 'puter

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Fri Aug 23, 2002 2:45 am

Windows ME... There mere mention of it chills the bones. All the instablility and crashed you loved in 98 but with new buggy features!

I ran FOT v1.27 on XP and never had any problems.

Stealth Rabbit · Post by **Stealth Rabbit** » Fri Aug 23, 2002 3:26 am

Certain games work at certain times on my computer. My comp is so screwed up, so one time under XP FOT worked, the next time it didn't. I think it's trying to conspire against me. :bad-words:

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Fri Aug 23, 2002 3:35 am

You think you have it bad? I have to reinstall the drivers for my video card every time I reboot my computer because they decide to spontaneously disappear from time to time. What's really annoying is having to reboot the computer two more times during the installation process...

Stealth Rabbit · Post by **Stealth Rabbit** » Fri Aug 23, 2002 6:28 am

OK, thats worse than my problem.

TheReaper · Post by **TheReaper** » Fri Aug 23, 2002 7:12 am

I use Win XP and it runs FOT with no problems, in fact I have never had it crash once, I can safely say that Win XP is the most stable OS to come out of Microsoft yet.

Max-Violence · Post by **Max-Violence** » Fri Aug 23, 2002 12:11 pm

Spazmo wrote:You think you have it bad? I have to reinstall the drivers for my video card every time I reboot my computer because they decide to spontaneously disappear from time to time. What's really annoying is having to reboot the computer two more times during the installation process...

That's... not good. You might have a virus, virus-like object, or a really f-'d up hard drive. Or a combination.

Or you pissed of the tech-gods. Over and over.

And over.

Flamescreen · Post by **Flamescreen** » Fri Aug 23, 2002 6:36 pm

Btw, sorry for neglecting to mention this:
Are you sure you cover all of FoT reqs? It occasionally crashed on my comp too, and I only have 128 megs of mem. Usually, it did that after playing for consecutive hours and it gave me signs first that the system was low on resources(got tremendously slow). Also there are bugs in the normal version that got fixed in 1.27, and then there is the dreaded missing graphics problem for which there was a huge patch.

If you don't have such problems, you can try exiting the program for a while when it gets slow, shutdown and after a few minutes restart. Or you could buy more ram and a better PC, though I hardly recommend that just for a game.

Stealth Rabbit · Post by **Stealth Rabbit** » Fri Aug 23, 2002 10:47 pm

As a matter of fact, I do meet the requirements, 933mhz PIII, 256mb RAM, 30gb HD, 64mb video card, supports resolutions up to 1280x1024 using 32bit color.

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Fri Aug 23, 2002 11:38 pm

Max-Violence wrote:
Spazmo wrote:You think you have it bad? I have to reinstall the drivers for my video card every time I reboot my computer because they decide to spontaneously disappear from time to time. What's really annoying is having to reboot the computer two more times during the installation process...
That's... not good. You might have a virus, virus-like object, or a really f-'d up hard drive. Or a combination.

Or you pissed of the tech-gods. Over and over.

And over.

Well, I know it's not a virus as I did a full HD scan the other day. I'll just get around to formatting my hard drive (or rather, my partition, but that's not important) eventually which should get things working again. Hopefully.

Flamescreen · Post by **Flamescreen** » Sat Aug 24, 2002 9:44 pm

Flamescreen wrote:It occasionally crashed on my comp too, and I only have 128 megs of mem.

Correction: 192 megs of ram

Stealth Rabbit · Post by **Stealth Rabbit** » Sat Sep 14, 2002 3:29 am

Yeah, uh, Flamescreen, that doesnt help me much, but thanks for posting anyway.

vVolf · Post by **vVolf** » Tue Nov 12, 2002 3:43 pm

lol, well he is just helping. Oh yea, you thanked him. Well, its all good in this post.

Stealth Rabbit · Post by **Stealth Rabbit** » Fri Nov 15, 2002 5:36 am

dont revive old topics please!

vVolf · Post by **vVolf** » Sun Nov 17, 2002 6:28 am

*revives an old topic*