Old LucasArts Game Errors in Vista

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Darunia

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In January I bought my new Gateway DX4200-09, with Vista. Since then, some of my favorite old games do not function. Particularly, one of my very favorite games of all time: Jedi Knight (Dark Forces II), from LucasArts, 1997. When I put the disc in, the install prompt comes up, same as always, but when I try to install it, I get this message (and I quote,)

"The Jedi Knight Setup program was unable to launch. You can install Jedi Knight by running SETUP.EXE directly from the Jedi Knight CD-Rom disk #1."

So, no problem.. I just went into explorer and opened the appropriate file, but THEN I get the real error:

"The Program or feature "\??\D:\install\setup.exe" cannot start or run due to incompatibility with 64-bit versions of Windows. Please contact the software vendor to ask if a 64-bit Windows compatible version is available."

They can land a man on the Moon and split the atom, but they can't make a version of Windows that will run old software?

Any solutions?
 

My Computer

System One

Have you tried looking for a patch?
Have you tried downloading dos box to see if that solves the problem?
Have you tried running the program in compatability mode?
If this program is 16bit then you will run into problems because 64bit os is not compatable with 16bit programs.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Self Built
    CPU
    I5 3570K
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte Z77-DS3H
    Memory
    4 x 4GB corsair ballistix sport DDR3 1600 Mhz
    Graphics card(s)
    Gigabyte Geforce GTX 660 TI
    Sound Card
    creative x-fi
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Primary CiBox 22" Widescreen LCD ,Secondary Dell 22" Widescreen
    Screen Resolution
    Both 1680 x 1050
    Hard Drives
    2 x 500G HD (SATA) 1 x 2TB USB
    PSU
    Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Complient PSU
    Case
    Antec 900 Ultimate Gaming Case
    Cooling
    3 x 80mm tri led front, 120mm side 120mm back, 200mm top
    Mouse
    Technika TKOPTM2
    Keyboard
    Logik
    Internet Speed
    288 / 4000
    Other Info
    Creative Inspire 7.1 T7900 Speakers Trust Graphics Tablet
Have you tried looking for a patch?

What kind of patch would service this? A LucasArts one? A Microsoft one?

Have you tried downloading dos box to see if that solves the problem?

No... but, it's not a DOS program. It came out in 1997.

Have you tried running the program in compatability mode?

To the best of my ability... I selected it to run on Windows ME, but the same error persistently comes up.

If this program is 16bit then you will run into problems because 64bit os is not compatable with 16bit programs.

I don't think its 16 bit.... I'd say it's at least 32.
 

My Computer

System One

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Self Built
    CPU
    I5 3570K
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte Z77-DS3H
    Memory
    4 x 4GB corsair ballistix sport DDR3 1600 Mhz
    Graphics card(s)
    Gigabyte Geforce GTX 660 TI
    Sound Card
    creative x-fi
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Primary CiBox 22" Widescreen LCD ,Secondary Dell 22" Widescreen
    Screen Resolution
    Both 1680 x 1050
    Hard Drives
    2 x 500G HD (SATA) 1 x 2TB USB
    PSU
    Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Complient PSU
    Case
    Antec 900 Ultimate Gaming Case
    Cooling
    3 x 80mm tri led front, 120mm side 120mm back, 200mm top
    Mouse
    Technika TKOPTM2
    Keyboard
    Logik
    Internet Speed
    288 / 4000
    Other Info
    Creative Inspire 7.1 T7900 Speakers Trust Graphics Tablet
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