Shogun:Warlord Edition and XP Home

[Akula Osis]

I cannot get it to run, it does check the CD but then nothing. Is the best solution to just keep a Win98SE bootable partition around?

What is it about XP that keep's this game from running?

[Togakure]

I use Win98 for the very reason that most of my games are older, my plat won't handle the new ones, and 98 was the native OS for most of the games I have on this box. Therefore, I have zero problems running them. XP seems to introduce a set of backward-compatibility problems with older games.

As to the cause of XP's problems, I'm not qualified to comment as I don't use it. There are others here who do, and who are, however. I'm sure someone will be along shortly.

If you can create a partition for 98 and run your older games from it, I would think that would be the best solution for playing your old favorites while still being able to play the new ones too. That's what I would likely do if I were in your position.

Welcome to the Sword Dojo .

[Shambles]

I use Xp and WE no problems at all....

Any error messages reported?
And do u run any software fire walls, or anti virus programs.

Also any problems runing other games?

[Akula Osis]

I use Xp and WE no problems at all....

Any error messages reported?
And do u run any software fire walls, or anti virus programs.

Also any problems runing other games?

No error message at all, did a fresh install and same thing happens. Also I close down all programs before I run a game, both manually (NOD32 & Spy Sweeper) then with XP-Smoker (shuts down 39 unrequired XP services).

No issues with other games that I run, I'm using the latest drivers for my hardware.

It just won't run, it's the EA released version of STW:WE

So right now I'm running the game on a PIII-850 with 512Mb RAM, Radeon 9200, SBLive, Win98SE.

[R'as al Ghul]

Hi Akula,

you can try to change the compatibility mode.
Go to the Desktop-shortcut you use to start the game, right click, select properties, on the register-card "Compatibility" select Win98/WinME.
Repeat the same with the properties of the Shogun.exe file in the main Shoggy folder.
Try again


R'as

[Akula Osis]

Hi Akula,

you can try to change the compatibility mode.
Go to the Desktop-shortcut you use to start the game, right click, select properties, on the register-card "Compatibility" select Win98/WinME.
Repeat the same with the properties of the Shogun.exe file in the main Shoggy folder.
Try again


R'as

Did that, made no difference.

Even disabled HyperThreading in the BIOS, again nothing. I think I'll try my original STW CD set and see if that one works.