How do i get ts to work on XP?

TerroR · General **Joined**: 25 Aug 2002 **Location**: UK

How do i get tiberian sun to work on XP?

I slap the disk in, 3mins later the menue loads up, i hit play and then it says it can't detect the disk?

Banshee · Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2004 2:10 pm Post subject:

clean your disk and retry...

Tratos · General **Joined**: 01 Jan 2003

Why are you blaming XP for not being able to read your disc, the problem is either your disc or your drive, XP is just the user interface

TerroR · General **Joined**: 25 Aug 2002 **Location**: UK

cos xp is known to suck up on old games init? & i don't get the problem on my 98 comp

stucuk · Geek **Joined**: 27 Aug 2002

XP works fine with TS, there is a bug caused by XP when u use it online, somethign with the text box you type into but its not anythign big (mouse disapears until u move it? can't rememeber).

P.S windows is everything, it interperates the exe's and follows there instructions, windows is an interpreter language. Hence why windows XP can cause probs with stuff that works fine on 98.

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Kagurati · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 3:03 am Post subject: XP and TS no problem

I'm on Windows XP Home Edition and i have absolutely no problem running TS, Though i did update mine b4 playing. I have no problem whatsoever.

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rogue4567 · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 3:52 am Post subject:

hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

my copy of renegade doesm't work cos the disk is faulty

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G10N89TS · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 10:42 am Post subject:

I also have XP and tried to install TS, installed fine, I clicked on play. Sound is ok, only no visual what so ever. I could see nothing but a blank screen. And it ain't my vid card that's causing the problem, I double checked that. So I think there really is a XP bug in TS which some time accors and other time not.

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stucuk · Geek **Joined**: 27 Aug 2002

Means its one of the following:

You need to patch XP(do u have SP1?)
Your Hardware/Drivers don't like TS

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G10N89TS · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 4:50 pm Post subject:

Well the second is definatly not the reason because it plays TS, only without video interface. About the first, if you mean updating it I have done it. I have updated all the latest patches. So still a riddle for me.

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Kagurati · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 6:55 pm Post subject: ...

Then again my computers not even a month old.

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1)get games.
2) beat them.
3) download mods.
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5)Repeat steps 3 and 4 (step 1 is optional)

That basically my gaming agenda.

Anyways,
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Have a problem with that?

^My Motto!

stucuk · Geek **Joined**: 27 Aug 2002

G10N89TS wrote:

Well the second is definatly not the reason because it plays TS, only without video interface. About the first, if you mean updating it I have done it. I have updated all the latest patches. So still a riddle for me.

there could easily b a driver conflict/ drivers that don't liek TS, drivers don't stop windows from running a program they can only make the program give errors/bugs or work.

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The DvD · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 7:43 pm Post subject:

Hey this is interesting, i mean i just got XP Home installed last week.. did some changes in AI and stuff, then went to bed.
Next morning i want to continue modding, the thing crashes at the loading screen (when displaying the AI loading sentence)

After one morning of trying backups/trying to find the error, i found out that i had to use compatability mode to get it to work... :S

but now i hear you guys that you can run it without problems?? how is it possible that TSTW needs comp. mode and standard TS does not??

G10N89TS · Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 10:45 am Post subject:

stucuk wrote:

G10N89TS wrote:

Well the second is definatly not the reason because it plays TS, only without video interface. About the first, if you mean updating it I have done it. I have updated all the latest patches. So still a riddle for me.

there could easily b a driver conflict/ drivers that don't liek TS, drivers don't stop windows from running a program they can only make the program give errors/bugs or work.

That could possibly be the problem, cause over at my dad's we got Win ME. TS works fine on it, the only problem is that you have to put it in the DVD thingie and not the CD thingie. Sorry don't know the english for it, I mean the thing that opens where you put your cd in. So how can I check if there is a conflict?? I'm not that good when it comes to hardware and internal things in a computer.

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stucuk · Geek **Joined**: 27 Aug 2002

TS is old, it proberly has been hardcoded to use ur primary drive or ur "cd music drive" (one driver on ur pc is desegnated as the cd driver in the sound thingy).

Its always best to shove ur games in ur promary drive (which is normaly dvd if u have one)

There are programs to check conflicts.

The reason why one mod may work and another needs compatibility mode is due to the fact there different, ur mod proberly makes TS do something, say it causes an internal error thats suppressed, but cos XP handles it differently to say win98 it fecks up unless u shove iton a compatibility setting (which should make it run liek it did on thta OS).

If programs don't work you should try all the compatibility settings. (even ones like Win 2000 when u had 98 b4)

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G10N89TS · Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 6:13 am Post subject:

Okay, I'll give it a shot...

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G10N89TS · Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2004 2:35 pm Post subject:

Okay got problem. Can't find compatality or smthing thingie in the menu's. Where are the settings for it???

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The DvD · Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2004 8:29 pm Post subject:

Right click on sun.exe, go to properties (eigenschappen) and go to the compatibility tab, check the box, and set comp. mode to Windows 98 (this is required for TSTW for some reason)

Fremen5 · Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2004 2:07 am Post subject:

i'm glad i don't have to deal with this stuff...
i got ME...

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G10N89TS · Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2004 4:25 pm Post subject:

I guess my computer if fucked or anything cause now with compibilty set on I only get the background of the game, not the menu. Lol

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Reaperrr · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 12:27 am Post subject:

Fremen5 wrote:

i'm glad i don't have to deal with this stuff...
i got ME...

too

I heard for some people ME means "more errors" but I got it, and I never got probs related to windows (except with some old Win95/Dos games, but who cares), I even don't get any blue screens (except in combinationwith some of those win95/dos games Wink

).

And I won't switch to XP or Longhorn until it's necessary to play a game I want to play and/or use a program I want to use.