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Damn you game! Help?

BeckettBeckett Registered User regular
edited February 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
Hey all,

I'm feeling nostalgic and recently pulled out Escape from Horrorland from my CD collection. Unfortunately after trying everything I can to make the thing work its still showing up with "Goosebumps Executable File has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." I have tried running it in compatibility mode to 95 and it still is the same, and Dosbox tells me it cannot be run under dos.

Help?

Its a windows 95 game. Thanks.

“A man who limits his interests, limits his life.”
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  • ThanatosThanatos Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Are you running this on an XP machine?

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  • Bendery It Like BeckhamBendery It Like Beckham Hopeless Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    I know your plight... I have dungeon keeper sitting in front of me...

    DUNGEON KEEPER

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  • RuckusRuckus Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    I've had success by applying compatability mode to all the program and supporting files (dll's etc) in the program directory before.

    Basically you highlight all EXEs, DLLs, and any other non-document file, go into the properties and change them to win95 compatability.

    If there is no compatability tab, it means one of the files you have highlighted doesn't allow compatability mode changes, most likely because it wouldn't matter.

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  • BeckettBeckett Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    There is just one .exe file for some strange reason, and yes I run on XP

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    “A man who limits his interests, limits his life.”
  • IncendiusIncendius Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Are there DLLs and other file types though? If not there should be. And if there are, try setting them to compatibility mode as well as the .exe

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  • BeckettBeckett Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    No for some strange reason the file contains a .exe file and a setup95.exe file along with a readme file, I'll try copying all the files from the cd into the file.

    Beh, ideas?

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    “A man who limits his interests, limits his life.”
  • BeckettBeckett Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Nein guys, still receiving the same error. There are no files that will go into compatibility mode, except the .exe file and it still fails. Who ever can help me make this game work, I will give them a shiney penny.

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    “A man who limits his interests, limits his life.”
  • BeckettBeckett Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Dont worry I got it working, something to do with the old direct x, but its taken up a quater of my screen and I cant save lol. Oh well.

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    “A man who limits his interests, limits his life.”
  • stigweardstigweard Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Many older games can be played through virtualization. Try grabbing an old copy of Win98 if you still have one and install it on this. It is free and fast enough and you can play many old dos / 95 / 98 games that way.

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