7th March 2010, 2:17 PM
I may or may not have posted here before about this topic.
My favorite old school game is Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 (LucasArts, 1997.) It ran beautifully on my laptop, and good times were had by all. Except for the myriads of stormtroopers who were dispatched.
It will not run on Vista.
This is the thread I opened on Vista help forums:
In January I bought my new Gateway DX4200-09, with Vista. Since then, some of my favorite old games do not function. Particularly, one of my very favorite games of all time: Jedi Knight (Dark Forces II), from LucasArts, 1997. When I put the disc in, the install prompt comes up, same as always, but when I try to install it, I get this message (and I quote,)
"The Jedi Knight Setup program was unable to launch. You can install Jedi Knight by running SETUP.EXE directly from the Jedi Knight CD-Rom disk #1."
So, no problem.. I just went into explorer and opened the appropriate file, but THEN I get the real error:
"The Program or feature "\??\D:\install\setup.exe" cannot start or run due to incompatibility with 64-bit versions of Windows. Please contact the software vendor to ask if a 64-bit Windows compatible version is available."
They can land a man on the Moon and split the atom, but they can't make a version of Windows that will run old software?
Any solutions?
My favorite old school game is Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 (LucasArts, 1997.) It ran beautifully on my laptop, and good times were had by all. Except for the myriads of stormtroopers who were dispatched.
It will not run on Vista.
This is the thread I opened on Vista help forums:
In January I bought my new Gateway DX4200-09, with Vista. Since then, some of my favorite old games do not function. Particularly, one of my very favorite games of all time: Jedi Knight (Dark Forces II), from LucasArts, 1997. When I put the disc in, the install prompt comes up, same as always, but when I try to install it, I get this message (and I quote,)
"The Jedi Knight Setup program was unable to launch. You can install Jedi Knight by running SETUP.EXE directly from the Jedi Knight CD-Rom disk #1."
So, no problem.. I just went into explorer and opened the appropriate file, but THEN I get the real error:
"The Program or feature "\??\D:\install\setup.exe" cannot start or run due to incompatibility with 64-bit versions of Windows. Please contact the software vendor to ask if a 64-bit Windows compatible version is available."
They can land a man on the Moon and split the atom, but they can't make a version of Windows that will run old software?
Any solutions?
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