Getting Tie Fighter to work on XP

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2005-06-29 10:30am

I cannot get it to even Install, creating shortcut, compability mode, dosn't help.

Any ideas? Will sound work afterwards or will I also need to emulate that?

Melchior · Post by **Melchior** » 2005-06-29 10:35am

Did you try with DosBox?

The Grim Squeaker · Post by **The Grim Squeaker** » 2005-06-29 10:39am

Also Vbsound can help with the sound, but Dosbox is one of the best emulator programs out there

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2005-06-29 10:44am

It works in Dosbox, but it's slow. I suggest you try and find the Windows 95 edition.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2005-06-29 10:56am

Bounty, I have the Windows 95 edition, more commenly known as the collectors edition.

Melchoir, what should I do in Dosbox to enable it to work? Mount C, mount the CD rom drive as D and try to run?

Jaepheth · Post by **Jaepheth** » 2005-06-29 01:44pm

If memory serves, you need a DirectX 5 file that is no longer in current versions. (You just download it and stick it in your windows/system folder, IIRC)

You may also need VDMSound.

You may also need to fiddle with XPs compatibility wizard on the Tie95.exe file. (I think you need to download a version from Microsoft that gives more control over compatibility)

I have it working here... but I forgot what all I had to do to get it working.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2005-06-29 01:48pm

Its only a 100MB, zip it and send

The problem is not running it(I'll find those files somehow), but getting it to install. *gives up*
Thanks for the help everyone, I'll go fix my Win98 box back from XP.

Jaepheth · Post by **Jaepheth** » 2005-06-29 01:50pm

I think the DirectX file's what's needed to install

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2005-06-29 02:07pm

"Select the platform from below, you will!"

Yoda Tech Support and I wish I was kidding...

Maybe your answer's there...

General Brock · Post by **General Brock** » 2005-06-29 05:45pm

You could also try here:

http://www.lucasfiles.com/?s=&action=file&id=653

This site has lots of goodies.

Melchior · Post by **Melchior** » 2005-06-29 06:26pm

Ace Pace wrote: Melchoir, what should I do in Dosbox to enable it to work? Mount C, mount the CD rom drive as D and try to run?

You will likely benefit from the use of a frontend, like D-Fend
EDIT: But if you have the Win95 edition, I'm not sure that it will work (and it could be slow)

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2005-06-29 06:39pm

Ace Pace wrote:Bounty, I have the Windows 95 edition, more commenly known as the collectors edition.

Melchoir, what should I do in Dosbox to enable it to work? Mount C, mount the CD rom drive as D and try to run?

I managed to do it using the Compatibility Toolkit (its a download somewhere on the MS site).

Can't remember what options I changed though, sorry.

Firefox · Post by **Firefox** » 2005-06-29 11:21pm

I tried the patch Brock posted, but I can't get the install screen to clear up. I'm not sure if it's because this is an older version of the game or not (it's a CE, so I doubt it). Anything I can do to fix that? Change screen settings?

General Brock · Post by **General Brock** » 2005-06-30 01:47pm

If you are having troubles with the DOS version, this might work:

http://www.rebelsquadrons.org/classicgames/tie.php

The Microsoft toolkit is up to v.4 right now, and qfixapp.exe does not appear to be available, for some strange reason. If you have your XP installation disk, the v.2 version should be there.

Sound problems:

Sourceforge VDMSound