Network Gaming Duke Nukem 3d

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Radiation

Group,
I've been running millenium for a long time and I switch to XP Home
about 3 months ago. I have been trying to figure out why I can't get Duke
Nukem 3d to play anymore. Any Ideas?
 
Build Engine games like Duke and others won't run with sound or Vesa
graphics with XP because XP doesn't contain DOS, only a DOS emulator which
doesn't work very well. To get sound in Duke, you need a 3rd party solution
such as VDMSound, found here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/vdmsound
Then you should be able to run Duke with a low-rez 320x200 graphics setting.

Others here suggest multi-booting and running it under Real Mode DOS, with
the files found here: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~lpcd/downloads.html
which require your hard drive to use FAT32 rather than the NTFS file system,
and your sound card to have DOS drivers, so that's usually not do-able on
new systems. If you kept the FAT32 file system when you upgraded, and have
DOS drivers for your soundcard then multi-booting should work.

If you have converted to NTFS, then you might try DOSBOX, another 3rd party
solution which is found here: http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/information.php
Good luck and let me know what works for you.
 
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