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Hi all! my first post... nice to meet you all, it seems like a nice community you got here

Anyway, I got a problem I really hope you could solve for me, it goes like this:

I ordered the Millenium Edition of M&M IV,V,VI,VII (+World of Xeen+Swords of Xeen) from CSaccess.com a week ago.

Now I inserted CD #1 in and tried to install, simply clicking Setup.exe...
Disappointingly, nothing happens...

When I go to Task Manager->Processes I see there is a Setup.exe existing, and if I click again another one pops there...and another if I click it again, etc.

I'm really confused about this, It's a Millenium Edition so you an call it relatively "new" (as in the developers were already aware of the existence of Windows® at the time they published the edition) and I still can't seem to install it....

All sugguestions you have will be accepted happily,

Thanks in advance,
Mor.

Try opening the CD, right-click on the setup file, select properties and then compatibility and change it to an earlier version of Windows. I can't guarantee this will work but I've had quite a few older games that refused to run/install on XP until I had changed the compatibility to something like 95 or 98.

Edit:Oh, I forgot to add welcome to GameBanshee

Thanks alot, happy to join

Thanks for the quick reply man!

Anyway, my situation has changed... I've switched to my other OS (Win98) and successfully installed World of Xeen & Swords of Xeen using it.

Now I have a different problem. When Activating the game in Win98 (after configuring audio to use Soundblaster Pro) I get an OK functioning game...by saying "OK" I mean it isn't perfect yet. Sometimes the animation runs too fast and there's frequent noises in speech.

I understand it can work perfectly using VDMsound or DosBox... The problem is, when I try using those (either in XP and Win98) I get this line:

"No CD-ROM drive or MDCDEX.exe is not loaded!"

Thus, I cannot activate the game using DosBox in my Win98 (which is what I think will solve the few problems I have left)

No one mentioned anything about this line before, at least not that I know of!

I hope you can help me,
Mor.

P.S

I don't know if this is a sound affect problem or this is just the way the game is, but I get no attack sound affects (while casting magic or shooting arrows for instance) nor steps sound affects, and no music in-game!

I'm going to move this to the Tech Support forum as you may get more help there. I'll also change the title so people know you are also having sound problems

ok this is how it is...

I've sort of found a solution to my problem...It isn't perfect yet, but is sure is alot better than nothing, and it's relatively complex (at least not in a way you can get to this solution from scratch)

So it's like this: in DosBox, type in the next command:

(if F:\ is CD-ROM Drive letter , then

mount F: F:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 -ioctl "/" -aspi

either -ioctl or ("/") -aspi in the end should be ok, personally I only tried with the -ioctl ending...

It still doesn't work perfectly on xp, but i'll try on my Win98 and let you know..plus, if it will be neccessary i'll check with the -aspi ending as a last resort.