Dos games in XP

A

Ashley

I have an older DOS game (Railroad Tycoon) that played
fine on everything from Windows 3.0 to 2000. I now have
XP, and I get kicked out of the game. It seems to let me
play for a random amount of time, but usually less than a
half-hour. I get an error message "NTVDM.exe encountered
a problem and needs to close. We are sorry ...". My
games gets minimized, but I I clickit, the screen comes
up momentarily and then its gone. I have had the same
problem running the game on XP Home and Pro.
Is there any way to fix this ??
 
J

Jimmy S.

Hi Ashley,

When a game is a DOS game, it could work using compatibility mode:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=292533 or by using the Multiboot
bootdisk from: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~lpcd/downloads.html
and always check at fileplanet.com to see if there's a patch available.

With DOSBOX you can emulate a DOS computer on your XP desktop:
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/information.php Or try MS Virtual PC:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/virtualpc/downloads/trial.asp
which allows you to install DOS or to run any operating system inside XP.

If you prefer to explore other advanced methods, here are two excellent
tutorials I've found on the subject: http://www.dosgames.com/xphints.php
and: http://home.earthlink.net/~angeldancer27/XpGameList.htm :)

--
Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

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| I have an older DOS game (Railroad Tycoon) that played
| fine on everything from Windows 3.0 to 2000. I now have
| XP, and I get kicked out of the game. It seems to let me
| play for a random amount of time, but usually less than a
| half-hour. I get an error message "NTVDM.exe encountered
| a problem and needs to close. We are sorry ...". My
| games gets minimized, but I I clickit, the screen comes
| up momentarily and then its gone. I have had the same
| problem running the game on XP Home and Pro.
| Is there any way to fix this ??
|
 

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