[Setekh]

This was posted into the HLP 2.0 system recently. I fixed up the grammar a bit and thought you guys might be able to provide some assistance:

[q]Hi, I was just wondering if you could help. I have a P4 2.4Ghz with a GeForce 5900 on Windows XP Pro. I never had time to get into FS2 although I loved FS1 and finished it. Noe I wanted to finally play FS2 (GOTYE). I know it's older but it looked great on my Win 98 older computer for the few missions I got to play back in the day.

But I can't even get it to install on XP Pro. It says "WINNT32 subsystem can't run the 16-bit installer" or somethhing. Even though I chose to ignore it, it just crashes out to desktop. Did you guys or anybody ever come out with a fixed installer or workaround to get FS2 to install on XP Pro, or is it permanently locked into the 98 world forever? Please help, thank you.

- Jim[/q]

I have his email address and have contacted him telling him that FS2 does indeed install on XP. But can you guys help him fix his problem? I've made him aware of the existence of this thread and I can mail him back some suggestions if you guys can come up with some. That would be really good, thanks.

[Hippo]

Most people here actually use XP Home AFAIK... Some probably use Pro though, but i've never had that problem on Home edtn...

[Setekh]

I have FS2 installed on both XP Pro and Home, so I'm pretty sure there's no problems there. I'm just unsure what the cause of his install problem is.

[Hippo]

is it possible to run the installer itself in compatability mode?

[an0n]

He should try playing with the colour-depth settings on his 'puter.

Creatures used to give me **** installing and playing, when I was running the wrong colour depth. The POS crashes and burns if you run in 32-bit colour.

[Swamp_Thing]

I guess it all depends on where he got the game from. If it´s an original, it could mean one thing. If its the downloadable version widely available, it could mean another.
My guess is its a corrupted installer, or a bad burnt copy. If he has the CD images available, my advice is mount them using Daemon Tools, it never fails. If it works, then he would know the error is in the burnt CDs.
I´ve installed the game in both XP Pro and XP home, so i can assure you it works.

[Galemp]

Dunno. You might want to direct him to the Microsoft Knowledge Base for this. I'm running XP Pro and it installed fine.

[Setekh]

Yeah Swamp_Thing, I was inclined at first to think he'd downloaded a dud installer, but he mentioned it was GOTYE - which I doubt you could just download (even if he did, how could he tell it was GOTYE if it hadn't installed yet?). So that's why I'm puzzled about it.

[Xelion]

I'm assuming GOTYE is the same as SOTYE.

Some feedback
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• GOTYE is pretty much avaivable via kazaa/eMula/p2p networks
• He probably knew it was GOTYE cause he could have download it or the discs have it written on the label
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Options

• The following site may help, NTFS-InstallShield Problem.
  
• Format system and reinstall Freespace2 straight after the installation, the error could be the result of third-party software
• The OS (WinXP Pro) could be incomplete if its not legit
• Other options could be to run it with SP1/SP2 installed

[Kosh]

I use pro and it never gave me a problem.