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    Getting an old game to run?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by ravenmorpheus, Jul 5, 2008.

  1. ravenmorpheus

    ravenmorpheus Notebook Deity

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    Hey there guys

    Ok I know there are a lot of gamers out there that wouldn't touch this with a barge pole because it's not new or "cool" but I'm trying to get WCW Nitro to run in Windows XP Home.

    It starts up, I get a black screen, then I get the legal screen, then I get a black screen with the intro audio playing and nothing else happens.

    I've tried it in 95 compatibility mode and all the compatibility options but it still does the same thing.

    Does anyone have any advice on how I could get the game to run properly?

    Thanks in advance :)
     
    ravenmorpheus, Jul 5, 2008
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  2. sirmetman

    sirmetman Notebook Virtuoso

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    What GPU do you have, and what are the reqs listed for the game?
     
    sirmetman, Jul 5, 2008
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  3. brainer

    brainer Notebook Virtuoso

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    Believe it or not, i used to play this game in the old days, i think you should try running the game using the command prompt interface.
     
    brainer, Jul 5, 2008
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  4. ravenmorpheus

    ravenmorpheus Notebook Deity

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    Hmm well I tried it from the command prompt and then I installed it in Vista (I have a dual boot of XP Home SP2 and Vista) and it works fine in Vista.

    Problem is I don't use Vista all that often so switching to Vista to play just WCW Nitro seems a bit pointless.


    The readme with the game says you need Direct X 6 for the fmv, I've got Direct X 9.0c and selected the option in the installer to install DX 6 so is that something I should be looking at?

    Or could it be that the game just will not get past the opening intro movie which it's only playing the audio of in XP Home SP2 and there is no way of curing the problem other than to get Windows 98 or play it in Vista?
     
    ravenmorpheus, Jul 6, 2008
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  5. xxAVxx

    xxAVxx Notebook Consultant

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    I don't have any experience with this game or Vista but I do know when older games that I've installed from the GTA series or the older Sim City games I had to disable one of the cpus on my pc from the task manager window in order to get them to run properly.
     
    xxAVxx, Jul 10, 2008
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    force run the game in dx6. there should be a command that does it.
     
    Levenly, Jul 10, 2008
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  7. ravenmorpheus

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    Well if anyone knows how to force the game to run in DX6 I'd appreciate being told because switching between XP and Vista just to play this game is getting on my nerves...
     
    ravenmorpheus, Jul 10, 2008
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