Installing ToT on Win XP?

[Scouse Gits]

The installation runs fine, but ToT crashes to desktop as soon as it is started - any clues?

Stu

[Mercator]

Have you been able to start it at least once before?
When exactly does it crash during start-up? Before you see any of ToT?
Do you get an error message, or does it just disappear suddenly?

My ToT crashes sometimes as well (on Win 98, though) when I try and run it. But it seems to solve itself after a while.

Do you have any other programs running?

Oh, and did you install the 1.1 patch?

*cough* A lot of questions and very few answers so far.

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

How did you install it? Straight install from CD, or did you copy the Microprose directory over from the old PC (I'm making an assumption that you got a new PC with XP as the OS)?

I'm on XP and everything went fine - so far as I remember. I installed ToT, then copied my old ToT folders overtop of the directory created by the install. Aside from the hassles of co-ordinating all the different patches and mods (1.1 + No-limits), everything went fine.

[Scouse Gits]

Hi guys and thanks,

not my machine or my game - I still stick to 2.42 - but my brother in law has a nice new XP lap top and a shiny CD - I have installed 2.42 without problem on it - but he wanted to play the multi-map thingy so bought ToT - with the above outcome - the install runs smoothly without any visible errors, but as soon as you try and run ToT it returns (in fact never leaves) the desktop.

Stu

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

I confess to being baffled. Especially considering that 2.42 installed fine.

It's not a video issue is it? When I had video problems in the past, the symptoms were similar - failure to start, and no error message.
/me is bereft of computer knowledge, and advises that the preceding suggestion is a stab in the dark.

I still stick to 2.42

/me shakes his head sadly