| Starship Titanic under Windows 2000/XP [message #143781] |
Do, 06 Oktober 2005 23:02 |
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I was wondering if anyone here was having "issues" with running the
Starship Titanic DVD under Windows 2000/XP (as opposed to Win 9x). I
have both a 9x and XP machine, and while I can install and play it on
the 9x system fine, the XP system won't even read the DVD! (I grant
this *might* be an issue with the DVD drive itself -- It's a DVD-RW
drive if that's at all relevant.) As an alternative strategy, I copied
all the ST files and Windows Registry entries from the 9x system and
installed them "manually" in the XP system. Now, though it runs, some
of the animation comes up as a blank screen, most notably the full
screen animations and transitions when you turn to walk in a certain
direction. Also the Succ-u-bus, the Liftbot's head, and some other
things are invisible.
Anyone have any clue what might be going on? Does ST just not "like"
Windows 2000/XP?
--
Dave
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| Re: Starship Titanic under Windows 2000/XP [message #143782 ] |
Do, 06 Oktober 2005 23:32 |
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Hi Dave,
Sorry to say I never had any problems running it under XP - although it
was the Pro version I had. Even got it running in XP running in a
VMWare virtual machine installed on SuSE Linux.
Might be worth checking the DVD drive. had any other oddities with it?
Cheers,
Gary
Dave Hardenbrook wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone here was having "issues" with running the
> Starship Titanic DVD under Windows 2000/XP (as opposed to Win 9x). I
> have both a 9x and XP machine, and while I can install and play it on
> the 9x system fine, the XP system won't even read the DVD! (I grant
> this *might* be an issue with the DVD drive itself -- It's a DVD-RW
> drive if that's at all relevant.) As an alternative strategy, I copied
> all the ST files and Windows Registry entries from the 9x system and
> installed them "manually" in the XP system. Now, though it runs, some
> of the animation comes up as a blank screen, most notably the full
> screen animations and transitions when you turn to walk in a certain
> direction. Also the Succ-u-bus, the Liftbot's head, and some other
> things are invisible.
>
> Anyone have any clue what might be going on? Does ST just not "like"
> Windows 2000/XP?
>
> --
> Dave
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| Re: Starship Titanic under Windows 2000/XP [message #143783 ] |
Fr, 07 Oktober 2005 00:44 |
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Dave Hardenbrook wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone here was having "issues" with running the
> Starship Titanic DVD under Windows 2000/XP (as opposed to Win 9x). I
> have both a 9x and XP machine, and while I can install and play it on
> the 9x system fine, the XP system won't even read the DVD! (I grant
> this *might* be an issue with the DVD drive itself -- It's a DVD-RW
> drive if that's at all relevant.) As an alternative strategy, I
> copied all the ST files and Windows Registry entries from the 9x
> system and installed them "manually" in the XP system. Now, though
> it runs, some of the animation comes up as a blank screen, most
> notably the full screen animations and transitions when you turn to
> walk in a certain direction. Also the Succ-u-bus, the Liftbot's head,
> and some other things are invisible.
>
> Anyone have any clue what might be going on? Does ST just not "like"
> Windows 2000/XP?
Not sure about XP. but I can tell you for a fact that it doesn't like
Windows 2000.....Since upgrading to win2k, I've never been able to play
ST....
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| Re: Starship Titanic under Windows 2000/XP [message #146079 ] |
Sa, 08 Oktober 2005 07:00 |
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> Anyone have any clue what might be going on? Does ST just not "like"
> Windows 2000/XP?
It's one of the games that doesn't work with Service Pack 2. I don't know
of any patch that's currently available.
Aphelion
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| Re: Starship Titanic under Windows 2000/XP [message #147807 ] |
Di, 11 Oktober 2005 00:24 |
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"GLH42" <glh42 [at] hotmail.com> hit the keyboard.
Afterwards the following was on the screen:
> Sorry to say I never had any problems running it under XP - although it
> was the Pro version I had. Even got it running in XP running in a
Pro/Home shouldn't do very much difference for most games.
Oh, I'm not disappeared, just trying to catch up - I hurt my shoulder
and cannot sit for very long in front of the computer. Pretty dumb
when having a job, study and hobby where computers take up a lot of
time...
/Rasmus
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-- [ Rasmus "Møffe" Bøg Hansen ] ---------------------------------------
I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be
attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del
was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.
----------------------------------------------[ moffe at zz9 dot dk ] --
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| Re: Starship Titanic under Windows 2000/XP [message #147810 ] |
Di, 11 Oktober 2005 10:07 |
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Ture it shouldn't make much difference using Pro instead of Home
editions, but it does seem that M$ have done their old trick of
producing a <slightly> cheaper version by effectively gutting the
business version! a'la W2k v ME...
The other thing is/was that I haven't run ST on XP with SP2 (now that
sounds silly) as SP2 has a tendency to destroy XP as my PC is all
64-bit. SOmething in the SP2 code seems to effectively bugger (
technical term ;-) ) the OS beyond belief.
This one run fines though and I don't have any problems with XP or SP2
etc, maybe because it's an iMac and won't play the PC game anyway
unless I shell out =80400 (or so) for the M$ iMac XP emulator.
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Could the BSoD be classed as an innovation?
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| Re: Starship Titanic under Windows 2000/XP [message #147811 ] |
Di, 11 Oktober 2005 12:31 |
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"GLH42" <glh42 [at] hotmail.com> hit the keyboard.
Afterwards the following was on the screen:
> Ture it shouldn't make much difference using Pro instead of Home
> editions, but it does seem that M$ have done their old trick of
> producing a <slightly> cheaper version by effectively gutting the
> business version! a'la W2k v ME...
Ah, but XP Pro and Home are based on the same kernel; W2K and ME are
based on different kernels (NT vs. 9X kernels).
Still you're right. Strange, inexplicable dfifferences do show up -
but games running on Home usually runs on Pro too as most features in
Pro are not related to games.
> Could the BSoD be classed as an innovation?
I do not remember anyone using blue for the panic message before - but
then again, I might be too young to remember.
The Guru Meditation was way more cool the BSOD!
/Rasmus
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-- [ Rasmus "Møffe" Bøg Hansen ] ---------------------------------------
Is there anything else I can contribute?
The latitude and longtitude of the bios writers current position, and
a ballistic missile.
-- Alan Cox
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| Re: Starship Titanic under Windows 2000/XP [message #147814 ] |
Mi, 12 Oktober 2005 04:17 |
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"Rasmus "Bøg" Hansen" <spam05 [at] zz9.dk> wrote in message
news:871x2smjkk.fsf [at] grignard.amagerkollegiet.dk...
>> Could the BSoD be classed as an innovation?
> I do not remember anyone using blue for the panic message before - but
> then again, I might be too young to remember.
> The Guru Meditation was way more cool the BSOD!
/me suddenly has nostalgic flashbacks of a red flashing box at the top of a
black screen.
God, I'd forgotten about those ...
--
Fræk
> SELECT * FROM users WHERE clue > 0
0 rows returned
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| Re: Starship Titanic under Windows 2000/XP [message #147815 ] |
Mi, 12 Oktober 2005 04:27 |
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Dave wrote ..
> ... XP system. Now, though it runs, some of the animation comes up as a
> blank screen, most notably the full screen animations and transitions when
> you turn to walk in a certain direction. Also the Succ-u-bus, the
> Liftbot's head, and some other things are invisible.
>
> Anyone have any clue what might be going on? Does ST just not "like"
> Windows 2000/XP?
I've just installed ST on XP SP2, and witnessed exactly the behaviour you
describe.
After a bit of digging around, it appears the culprit is ...
iccvid.dll - the Cinepak® Codec.
XP SP2 appears to ship with version 1.10.0.12, which is only 79k. Earlier
versions shipped with 1.10.0.6, which is 108k.
Renaming the new version, and dropping the older version in XP's system32
folder restores ST to its expected behaviour.
Hope that helps,
Sean.
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"For heaven's sake, get on with it! Oh go on, don't just sit there!" -- DNA
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| Re: Starship Titanic under Windows 2000/XP [message #147816 ] |
Mi, 12 Oktober 2005 04:55 |
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Earlier I wrote ...
> After a bit of digging around, it appears the culprit is ...
>
> iccvid.dll - the Cinepak® Codec.
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> XP SP2 appears to ship with version 1.10.0.12, which is only 79k. Earlier
> versions shipped with 1.10.0.6, which is 108k.
A much better solution, however, is to download version 1.10.0.11 from the
wonderful folks at Providenza & Boekelheide, who wrote the Cinepak codec in
the first place:
http://www.probo.com/cinepak.htm
Drop iccvid.dll from the zip file in the Starship Titanic program folder
(next to ST.exe).
The game will use this version in preference to any other on your system,
while the rest of XP can carry on using whatever version it happens to have
installed. (This is especially handy if you don't have administrator
privileges on your system).
Enjoy,
Sean.
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"For heaven's sake, get on with it! Oh go on, don't just sit there!" -- DNA
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