Game keeps crashing

[TriLamda]

Hi ppl's does anyone know if 'Star Trek: New Worlds' will play on XP? It's an old game which I recently made a back-up copy of, I actually installed the game from the copy and it seem to install fine but after I select a race and level and click ok to start playing it crashes to the desktop and I receive the 'STNW.exe has encountered a problem and will close' box I uninstalled it and installed it with the original CD but it still crashes at the same spot???

Would that be a issue with XP or could the back-up copy have pooch screwed my system up

Cheers,

[Flame]

The game probably isn't compatible... Can you find the system requirements? Any patches on the internet to fix it?

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[TriLamda]

Sys requirements: (My system spec's are in brackets)
Minimum:
- Win 95           (XP sp2)
- DirectX 6.1     (DirectX 9c)
- P2 300 MHz   (P4 3 Gig)
- 16Meg Vid     (128 Meg Radeon 9600XT Extreme)

The spec's only say a minimum of Win 95 so I dont know if it is compatible or not

Man I haven't played it in so long and was looking forward to kicking some a**...

Btw the last time I played it was on a Win 98 machine...

Cheers,

[Flame]

Try running the game in compatibility mode... or look for patches on the internet...

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[TriLamda]

Thanks for the advise Flame, after doing a lengthy search I have found out that it is not compatible with XP, I was unable to get it to run in compatibility mode either although someone clams that it will run if set to "Win 2000" but that did not help :-/

As Interplay had gone bust there were no patches avaliable either Doesn't matter I'm going to build a machine and install an older version of windows so that I can play older non compatible programs. Thanks again...

Cheers,