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Jarrod
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i wanted to play red alert 2 the otherday so installed xp sp1 on my virtual machine, (it doesn't seem to like sp2 setup.exe just crashes) so i installed it alright but when i lauch it the spash screen shows and where the game gould normally launch it just covers the screen muticoloured lines, is there anyway i can get it to work, if u can tell me how to get it to install in sp2 that will do also
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| 12-12-2007 04:21 AM |
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RE: games in virtual machine
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| 12-12-2007 09:58 PM |
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Ezra
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RE: games in virtual machine
Virtual Machine's don't have DirectX support right?
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| 12-12-2007 10:04 PM |
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Jarrod
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O.P. RE: games in virtual machine
oh ok thanx i didn't no that,
shouldn't it say please install dx then?
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| 12-13-2007 10:35 AM |
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ShawnZ
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RE: games in virtual machine
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Originally posted by xen0h
oh ok thanx i didn't no that,
shouldn't it say please install dx then?
no, because you can't just install directx and have it magically change your graphics card to one that supports directx Spoiler: the game.
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| 12-13-2007 01:21 PM |
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Jarrod
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O.P. RE: games in virtual machine
righteo it's because they don't have graphics card support not they don't have direct x support
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| 12-13-2007 08:43 PM |
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ShawnZ
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RE: games in virtual machine
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Originally posted by xen0h
righteo it's because they don't have graphics card support not they don't have direct x support
uh, its because their graphics card doesn't have directx support Spoiler: the game.
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| 12-14-2007 02:03 AM |
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owenw
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RE: games in virtual machine
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Originally posted by xen0h
i wanted to play red alert 2 the otherday so installed xp sp1 on my virtual machine, (it doesn't seem to like sp2 setup.exe just crashes) so i installed it alright but when i lauch it the spash screen shows and where the game gould normally launch it just covers the screen muticoloured lines, is there anyway i can get it to work, if u can tell me how to get it to install in sp2 that will do also
You could try VMWare, not sure if that has DirectX support, but it should do aye.
Oh and, btw, I have Red Alert 2 running happily on my XP Pro SP2 Machine. |
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| 12-14-2007 03:08 AM |
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ShawnZ
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RE: games in virtual machine
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You could try VMWare, not sure if that has DirectX support, but it should do aye.
it doesn't, and it won't do
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| 12-14-2007 03:15 AM |
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Jarrod
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O.P. RE: games in virtual machine
yeah it all works now i wasn't doing the shortcut thing that's why it wasn't working,,, i have a copy of eagle red 1.8 if anyone wants it
vmware should have dx support otherwise is dodgy
This post was edited on 12-14-2007 at 07:58 AM by Jarrod.
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| 12-14-2007 07:56 AM |
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