BR Game & Windows XP x64 incompatibility report.
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 2:04 am
Dear friends, I regret to say that the BR game isn't compatible with x64 edition of Windows XP.
Since I have a new computer (after living 6 years with P2 400 Mhz), with an Athlon 64 procesor, I have decided to switch to Windows XP with 64bit extensions. I was aware that it doesn't eat 16bit software, but since I managed to get all necessary 64bit drivers, and having on my mind that more and more 64bit software will be coming out in next months, I decided to give it a try.
Most of my old programs and games, even as old as 5 years, work quite well on x64, while others do not. Unfortunately the BR game falls to the latter cathegory. I put the CD into my primary CDRW drive. Autorun window has launched immediately, but as soon as I clicked on "install", a dialog window has poped out:
"SETUP.EXE is incompatible with this version of Windows. Please contact software manufacturer for 64-bit version of this software."
That's it. Yeah. I'm gonna ask EA, if they would be so generous to remake
BR game installer to 64bit version. *sarcasm*
So I'm gonna make dual-boot on my machine and install a classic XP or ME on my second hard drive. It will be useful for other x64-incompatible software and games I have.
Still x64 is a good thing, it runs nearly all 32bit programs and you'l notice it's performance gain in most newer games, during video/audio encoding and work with large amount of data. It also works very fast with more than 4 GB RAM. Not that I have 4 GBs of RAM, only one.
Thus I predict that the BR Game will have a similar problem on yet not released Win Vista.
Ironic thing is, that FALLOUT, a similarly old cult game, has installed problemlessly on x64 and runs like charm.
Cry and mourn folks. The moment has come when BR is truly a legacy game.
Well, that's the cost I must pay for being "cutting edge".
Since I have a new computer (after living 6 years with P2 400 Mhz), with an Athlon 64 procesor, I have decided to switch to Windows XP with 64bit extensions. I was aware that it doesn't eat 16bit software, but since I managed to get all necessary 64bit drivers, and having on my mind that more and more 64bit software will be coming out in next months, I decided to give it a try.
Most of my old programs and games, even as old as 5 years, work quite well on x64, while others do not. Unfortunately the BR game falls to the latter cathegory. I put the CD into my primary CDRW drive. Autorun window has launched immediately, but as soon as I clicked on "install", a dialog window has poped out:
"SETUP.EXE is incompatible with this version of Windows. Please contact software manufacturer for 64-bit version of this software."
That's it. Yeah. I'm gonna ask EA, if they would be so generous to remake
BR game installer to 64bit version. *sarcasm*
So I'm gonna make dual-boot on my machine and install a classic XP or ME on my second hard drive. It will be useful for other x64-incompatible software and games I have.
Still x64 is a good thing, it runs nearly all 32bit programs and you'l notice it's performance gain in most newer games, during video/audio encoding and work with large amount of data. It also works very fast with more than 4 GB RAM. Not that I have 4 GBs of RAM, only one.
Thus I predict that the BR Game will have a similar problem on yet not released Win Vista.
Ironic thing is, that FALLOUT, a similarly old cult game, has installed problemlessly on x64 and runs like charm.
Cry and mourn folks. The moment has come when BR is truly a legacy game.
Well, that's the cost I must pay for being "cutting edge".