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| 554929 | 2007-06-01 04:43:00 | Beginning to suspect theres something about NTFS and older games. Warcraft II will work on my PC fine, however a gentleman who has a new PC (in NTFS), it won't even install. And my brother was complaining about a particular game that runs fine on my PC and my fathers, both of which are in FAT32, but hangs on the first loading screen on my brothers. Anyone know why? Compatibility mode doesn't help either. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 554930 | 2007-06-01 05:13:00 | The file system can't possibly affect it. I'd suspect our old friend: bad memory. :D | Graham L (2) | ||
| 554931 | 2007-06-01 06:32:00 | Nope. I built all those systems, I've tested all those systems. And all the newer games run just fine. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 554932 | 2007-06-01 09:11:00 | NTFS increased security compared to FAT32 ie registry writes by the program Are the users who are trying to run these games normal or admin equivalent Some programs need to adjust registry info (write to the registry) and this cant be be done under NTFS / normal user to Some areas of the registry. If a program cant preform this registry write it appears to hang or crash |
beama (111) | ||
| 554933 | 2007-06-01 10:56:00 | Admin users. I hate game troubleshooting. But I messed with his PC for ages, ran every HW test I could, installed all sorts of other games which were fine. Updated drivers. Uninstalled suspect software that vaguely looked like it may interfere. Zilch. It runs no probs on mine which the only thing I can see is mine is FAT32. And seeing as there was that business with Warcraft II a while ago too. Unless anyone succesfully installed Warcraft II on an NTFS pc? |
pctek (84) | ||
| 554934 | 2007-06-02 03:00:00 | Most of the NTFS problems I have seen with old games fall into the following categories: File permissions - Fixed by running as admin. Copy protection - Some games will alter the FAT to hide files or licence keys. Partition to big - Some installers will fail with large partitions. Thinks volume is a network drive - Some will think you are installing or running from a network volume. Most of the above has been overcome by running in Microsoft Virtual PC with a FAT/FAT32 file system. Perhaps worth a try? |
ughnz (8297) | ||
| 554935 | 2007-06-02 03:09:00 | Most of the above has been overcome by running in Microsoft Virtual PC with a FAT/FAT32 file system. Perhaps worth a try? Hmmm. FAT32. The one thing the PC doesn't have. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 554936 | 2007-06-02 07:05:00 | Solution: Download & Install Truecrypt. Make a 3GB Container file on your HDD somewhere, mount it, and format it as FAT32! Then, install Warcraft II onto it just like you would any other HDD. ALL games will play as though Truecrypt wasnt even there, they just might not be uber-fast loading, but they'll still play :) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 554937 | 2007-06-02 07:56:00 | Hmmm. FAT32. The one thing the PC doesn't have. What ughnz meant was that you can have your virtual hard disk formatted as FAT/ FAT32. |
Sherman (9181) | ||
| 554938 | 2007-06-02 10:57:00 | Go to all the hassle of installing another copy of XP within Virtual PC just for a single game? Nooo.... Plus, most 3D games would run like crap (if they do at all) in a VM I would presume! |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
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