Help Matt run old adventure games

[ManicMatt]

Hello,

I am trying to run Douglas Adam's Starship Titanic. I can install the game, start the game, but as soon as I put a cd into a computer (In the game, not real life), the loading screen on the monitor in the game comes up, but then I am taken to the desktop, with this error message and the music is doing that awful error noise when it stutters indefinetly on the same bit of sound:



Ive already used the old codec to make the animation work in the game, that I found out from googling it in the first place.

I can't see any mention on google at all about this .DLL and starship Titanic. Any clues anyone?

(I wonder if I'll get these other old games I got to work...)

[LimpingFish]

Replacing the DLL with a newer version might work.

Go to C:\windows\system32\...and grab the one in there. Copy (as in duplicate) it into the game folder.

See if that helps.

EDIT: There's a slim possiblity that you may be missing the DLL file in /system32/. In that case you should replace it.

[ManicMatt]

Hmm, thanks!

I did that, and I no longer get the error message. However, it still plonks me back into windows, but the sound effects are playing normally.

I guess I could try DOS Box...

EDIT: Or not. Doesnt work as a DOS game. Argh!!

NEXT GAME I CAN'T RUN!

That would be The Dark Eye. It wants Quicktime 2.0. I don't.

Why oh why must I want to play these games made over ten years ago?!

[Dualnames]

Because you're crazy(that comment should be taken as what constructive critique should look like)?

[covox]

If memory serves, try cancelling the Quicktime 2.0 install and going ahead with the game install anyway.

If that doesn't work, just let it install its dodgy 1995-era libraries. Hey, it can't be worse than the current version!

[LimpingFish]

Ignoring Quicktime might work, but I wouldn't count on it. Similar situations I've had in the past have simply resulted in the games refusing to run.

I don't know if installing Quicktime 2.0 will interfere with any current install of Quicktime you have on your system, but I've installed it in the past without any side effects.

You could also uninstall your current Quicktime beforehand, and then install Quicktime 2.0.

I doubt the game will run without it, seeing as it uses QT to render it's enviroments.

[ManicMatt]

I guess I could always re-install the latest quicktime if installing 2.0 overwrites it somehow.

Naturally I tried installing it without quicktime 2.0, and thats when I get a message saying the game won't work without it. Even with it, I have no guarentee it will work! I'll see what happens then, thanks!

I really wanted to get Starship Titanic to work though, I hear good things about it. 

[LimpingFish]

Download this...

ftp://ftp.probo.com/pub/cinepak/cvid32.zip

Unzip the file, and copy the DLL to the Starship Titanic directory.

This should work.

EDIT: Nevermind. I can see the file in your screenshot.