Are they guaranteed to run poperly?
I;m asking that because i bought X Gold, the disc compilation of the two, (put out by THQ) a couple of years ago and it was basically unplayable, due to crashes.
I know the games were probably written for Windows 98, as they came out in 1999 and 2000 and we've had Windows 2000, XP, Vista and Seven, in the mean time, but the box listed it as XP compatible.
The first X game i played was Reunion, which i played to death and in the time between i saw all you can see and did all you can do in it and before we got our current fix of TC and probably enough to overdose on, with AP, having just come out, i was itching for more X!
.I've never used Mods before, but i very nearly downloaded the Xtended mod for Reunion, before deciding against it.
Then i saw X2 for sale (in my local supermarket, of all places
), bought it and this being about late 2007 early 2008, and X2 having come out in 2003, the graphics were more basic and well a bit cartoony it's was still very playable and still very good fun (and still is ) - i played threw the plot, then went back to Reunion, with some fresh insight into the series and some new ideas, to try in it.Then i found, X Gold, thought, hmm older still but lets give it a go
.I installed it, downloaded the patches, which are few and were (obviously
) not very recent and went to play them.Playing X: BTF, i was able to watch the opening video, game play through opening sequence to the point were you get transported to Seizewell, start the conversation, with the Teladi carrier captain, but then the game crashed at a particular point in the conversation, EVERY time.
No dice, so i tryed X: Tension, found i could play it for about five minutes, when random things kept making it crash.
Comm another ship - crash!
Dock at station - crash!
Fire a weapon - crash!
(You get the idea
.)I then posted about the problem in the tech support, here.
They mentioned an older Window compatibility mode, i turned that on, but it changed nothing so i decided to uninstall the games.
Came back to X2 and X3, to find no voices were playing in the former and they were only coming through about thirty seconds into Betty's lectures on items, probably because the X Gold uninstall had deleted some file the games share in common.
I tried updating various sound and graphics drivers, Windows Media Player etc and reinstalling both games.
After about two months of no voices in one game, practically no voices in the other the problem seemed to fix itself.
The reason i bring all this up, now is both games are available very cheap, in the current Steam sale - 2:50 each.
So before i risk the same thing happening again, i ask the question:-
Will they work now?
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. I ran Win2000 as my main OS until this summer, so I ran into that plenty, along with old games that were happy in XP but not in 2000)