Windows 95 games

Urban · Post by **Urban** » 23 Apr 2006, 04:21

I've just stumbled across a copy of Resident Evil 1 for the PC

classic game in my opinion and I'd love to see how it fares on a widescreen monitor. Would also like to complete it for the umpteenth time!

But...

When the autoplay runs, or I try to install, I get this error:

"This game would be able to run only when Windows95"

Does anyone know a way around this in xp pro?

I really can't be arsed to install 95 on another partition just to play this game!

TheIOU · Post by **TheIOU** » 23 Apr 2006, 05:04

Killik121 · Post by **Killik121** » 23 Apr 2006, 05:21

It's probaly not a good idea to post links to illegal torrents.

:roll: :(

TheIOU · Post by **TheIOU** » 23 Apr 2006, 05:37

ok

Hepharade has some type of solution here then (but can't really understand it because I've never tried to play resident evil 1 on xp):
http://www.ntcompatible.com/Help_with_original_resident_evil_t33170.html

FramerateUK · Post by **FramerateUK** » 23 Apr 2006, 12:53

I used to own that game years ago (ive got the Gamecube remake these days :)).

It only supported 3D cards to run the game. I beleive they were Voodoo 1, Rendition Verte (cant remember how its spelt..) and possible the Matrox Mystique.

You may be able to get the game to run via glidos, or a glide wrapper, but as all the backgrounds were 320x240, and the only game res was 640x480, i very much doubt youll be able to get ti to run in widescreen.

To play old games i put together a PC specifically for win 98 and 95 games. If you really want to play a lot of old games, you could probably put together a whole system for about Ã‚Â£30 (maybe less! prociding you already have a case spair).

Post by **Paradigm Shifter** » 23 Apr 2006, 13:45

It's probaly not a good idea to post links to illegal torrents.

:roll: :(

Good advice. ;)

cmregado · Post by **cmregado** » 23 Apr 2006, 15:27

Does XP's "run in compatibility mode" not work? I've installed a utility or two that required a certain OS. Just right-click on the setup.exe file --> Properties --> Compatibility, and the rest should be straight forward. You might have to do the same to the game's .exe file too.

FramerateUK · Post by **FramerateUK** » 23 Apr 2006, 21:18

Does XP's "run in compatibility mode" not work? I've installed a utility or two that required a certain OS. Just right-click on the setup.exe file --> Properties --> Compatibility, and the rest should be straight forward. You might have to do the same to the game's .exe file too.

It doesent use Direct 3D or Open GL to do the rendeing, it uses Glide and whatever the api for the matrox and renditions was. I cant see how it would work on any modern graphics card without a wrapper. If that can be solved then it could possibly work with compatibility mode turned on.

Urban · Post by **Urban** » 23 Apr 2006, 21:20

Think i'll give it a miss then.

Sounds like a lot of effort to play an old game.

Can't believe its that old though!

Feels like a few years ago when it first came out on the PS1

Post by **Paradigm Shifter** » 23 Apr 2006, 21:30

Final Fantasy VII has the same problem - it'll install in 'compatability mode' but even with 'compatability mode' it falls over and dies regularly on XP or 2000. It's a known bug - they did release a 'patch', but that causes other issues as well. *sigh*

Urban · Post by **Urban** » 23 Apr 2006, 21:39

Yet another game i've spent too many hours playing!

Legendary game though, and probably the first game of that type i've really got in to

FramerateUK · Post by **FramerateUK** » 23 Apr 2006, 22:06

Final Fantasy VII has the same problem - it'll install in 'compatability mode' but even with 'compatability mode' it falls over and dies regularly on XP or 2000. It's a known bug - they did release a 'patch', but that causes other issues as well. *sigh*

Yeah its a shame :(

I started working my way through the PS1 version la few summers ago, didnt get round to finshing it though.

I'd been told that the PS1 version looks great on a playstation emulator with full AA and AF turned on, unfortnately i couldnt get the emulators working though. They emulators arent as stable as the likes of Bleem! and VGS, and take a lot more tweaking to work properly. :(

Post by **Paradigm Shifter** » 23 Apr 2006, 22:21

I've never yet managed to get a PSX emulator to run without problems. Maybe it's just me. ;)

But I prefer the PC version anyway...

FramerateUK · Post by **FramerateUK** » 23 Apr 2006, 22:39

I've never yet managed to get a PSX emulator to run without problems. Maybe it's just me. ;)

But I prefer the PC version anyway...

VGS is very good and reliable (or used to be on win 9X anyway), but it runs everything at PSX native res (320x240) so looks a *little* outdated these days :).

kanzaki · Post by **kanzaki** » 24 Apr 2006, 01:47

What emulators did you attempt? I use epsxe160 and it's flawless bar some quarky sounds sometimes. You just need the right filters. I'm playing from the original discs not iso, could that be the problem?

IIDX · Post by **IIDX** » 24 Apr 2006, 01:59

Final Fantasy VII has the same problem - it'll install in 'compatability mode' but even with 'compatability mode' it falls over and dies regularly on XP or 2000. It's a known bug - they did release a 'patch', but that causes other issues as well. *sigh*

I've had no issues playing FFVII... I remember you just install the xp patch and video patch and play away.

cmregado · Post by **cmregado** » 24 Apr 2006, 03:44

It doesent use Direct 3D or Open GL to do the rendeing, it uses Glide and whatever the api for the matrox and renditions was. I cant see how it would work on any modern graphics card without a wrapper. If that can be solved then it could possibly work with compatibility mode turned on.

Ah, that makes sense. Good to know. :wink:

FramerateUK · Post by **FramerateUK** » 24 Apr 2006, 18:38

What emulators did you attempt? I use epsxe160 and it's flawless bar some quarky sounds sometimes. You just need the right filters. I'm playing from the original discs not iso, could that be the problem?

Nah ive got the original PS disk.

Saying that i was trying to run this on my last PC, which was about as stable as a one legged man on stilts, so maybe that was the problem :)

Post by **Paradigm Shifter** » 24 Apr 2006, 19:19

I've had no issues playing FFVII... I remember you just install the xp patch and video patch and play away.

Have you completed the game? It's got issues late on in Disc 2...

Urban · Post by **Urban** » 24 Apr 2006, 20:36

weren't there 4 discs for FF7 ?

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