installing older programs on Vista

[Big Black Stilo]

Hi

im having trouble installing the original Grand Theft Auto on my laptop which runs 64bit vista. i have downloaded the game directly from rockstar games, and can see people are using vista to play it, but i cant install it.

the installer unpacks everything into a destination folder of my choice, and when i run the GTAINSTALLER setup.exe, either as administrator or in compatability mode, or both, it doesnt do anything, nothing appears.

in the process list setup.exe*32 appears on clicking the abover, but just hangs there doing nothing. if you terminate the process vista warns me the software may not be installed properly (it isnt installed at all).

ive been going 32bit set up issues but nothing really applies or works

anyone any ideas?

 

[Focus Owner]

have you gone into properties?
and selected somthing like run in 32bit?

 

[Big Black Stilo]

theres no option in properties for run in 32bit. its doing this anyway.

its like the setup.exe*32 process is hanging

 

[Focus Owner]

cleared your task mger of the probabily tons of setups will now be in theire?

 

[Big Black Stilo]

yeah thats what brought the setup.exe*32 being the problem. when there was loads of them. just rebooted so theres nothing in it now.

 

[Focus Owner]

a disk called hirens boot cd may help
ie install it.
i dont think it will need to be in the registry.
out of ideas with not using windows

 

[jrkitching]

For DOS games (IIRC the original GTA was available in a DOS version) I'd suggest you try out DOSBOX, a free MS-DOS emulator which works fine on both 32 & 64 bit versions of Vista & Win7.

link: http://www.dosbox.com/

 

[ChrisUK]

:yeahthat:

I use dosbox to play Theme Hospital (Dos Based) on Windows 7 64bit . There's even options to specify how many cpu clocks it receives so that the program doesn't run too fast to use.

 

[jrkitching]

There's even options to specify how many cpu clocks it receives so that the program doesn't run too fast to use.

I've got something similar on my new FIAT 500 to stop my right foot from selecting too many cpu cycles & setting off all the cameras - it's called the 'Speed Beep'

 

[JackFi]

:yeahthat:

I use dosbox to play Theme Hospital (Dos Based) on Windows 7 64bit . There's even options to specify how many cpu clocks it receives so that the program doesn't run too fast to use.

Brilliant I was trying to find out the other day how to play theme hospital on the same system. Thanks

 

[Big Black Stilo]

dosbox didnt work, GTA needs to be installed through windows beforehand.. grrrrr

 

[ChrisUK]

Have you got the full CD of the game? I do and within the CD there's a GTADOS folder. Just need to copy that to the root of a Hard disk and run it from within dos box. If your struggling I can zip it up and drop you a PM if you want?