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tgkeke
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i bought alpha centauri looong ago and had much fun with it on my 200mhz Win95 system. but now i have a winxp pro system and i've been trying to install SMAC, but, but it's not working. ealier, i'd doubleclick the setup, it'd say "C:/PROGRA~/SYMANTEC/s32evnt1.dll This is a problem blah blah Close/Ignore?" and i spent all afternoon trying to find a solution, scouring all kinds of problem forums.
if i ignored the warning, the SMAC pre-install screen would come up (you know with the centered rectangular box cover and the little "InstallShield is loading SMAC..." and a little percent bar in the corner) and it would make it to 100%, but then nothing would happen. No install wizard came up. I check in Task Manager and two unfamiliar programs were there: ntvdm and wowexec.exe. I checked on these and it turns out they're WinXP's tricks for running 16-bit programs or something like that.
i installed the symantec program and tried running setup.exe again, and thankfully, the close/ignore dialog doesn't come up anymore. HOWEVER, it still isn't loading the setup/install, just as if i had ignored the dialog box. so what am i supposed to do?
if i run terran.exe off the disc, it works fine, but if i can't install the game to my HD, then i can't install Alien Crossfire. And i paid the full 20 or 30 dollars for that when it came out! So what can i do? anybody have any suggestions at all?
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tgkeke
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well that's the thing...the patch does nothing because i'd have to install first
and i can't even install
if i could install, it'd all be good.
if there was some alternate way to install, without using installshield, i'd be good i think
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tgkeke
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i actually don't use norton. i had used norton a while ago, but the subscription expired so i uninstalled and now i use AVG. buuuut, i still tried shutting down all other programs i had running (AVG, peerguardian, popupxp) and the install did the same thing. then i tried restarting the computer, with all the programs turned off for autostartup (set in msconfig), and STILL the install did the same thing
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tgkeke
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and i've also already tried copying the entire cd to my harddisk and installing from there. same problem.
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tgkeke
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and i've also cleaned my disk and it doesn't look like there are any scratches on it. i'm THIS close (|----|) to downloading a warez version and seeing if that'll work. and it'll be perfectly legal too, so why not...
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tgkeke
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i found the dll and deleted it, but no such luck in starting the install AND the close/ignore dialog comes up beforehand. so i just downloaded the warez version and am using that. and it works great.
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