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Nov 30^th, 2005 at 11:18am

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Folks, I'm having trouble with FS98 install on a pc running XP to wit: I've tried installing both patch 1 and the Converter. If installed under XP both exe files go through the extract screen and then nothing. If i try them as windows 95 or 98 or 2000Cashybai compatable (using the properties tab on them) I get an error message something like 'unable to run w9532.dll'(I'm at work at the mo-I'll post the exact wording tomorrow).Anyone got any ideas how to get around this, failing that, I think thecontents have all extracted to my temp folders somewhere..anyone got a listing of what goes in what folder for the two of them?

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Reply #1 - Nov 30^th, 2005 at 1:40pm

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Hi Neil. I just got a new machine with WinXP installed. I haven't tried FS98 on it yet. When I have time I'll check this one out. Shouldn't take long. To the best of my knowledge, other members here have used FS98 on WinXP. I wouldn't know if they installed the Patch & Converter but this is the first time I've seen this problem mentioned.

FS98 is a little long in the tooth now. Depending on the specs of your computer it might be worth trying FS2002 or FS9.

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Reply #2 - Dec 2^nd, 2005 at 3:16am

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Cheers Hagar,
I'm just being a skinflint, I've only just upgraded from FS6, slow or what! Silly enough, I tried for interest sake to upload the FS6 converter, it worked first time. I've now tried three sources of the patch, and two for the converter, including a copy I found on the Europe3 disc, all to no avail.... Sad

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Reply #3 - Dec 2^nd, 2005 at 12:32pm

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OK. I just dug out my old FS98 CD & installed it to my brand-new machine complete with WinXP. After running FS98 to adjust the settings I had a quick flip round Meigs before installing the Patch & Converter. Everything worked as advertised so I don't think your problem has anything to do with WinXP.

Both files were downloaded from Simviation here. http://www.simviation.com/fs98utilities_ess.htm
Please note that I installed FS98 to the default location & ran both updates from the same drive that FS98 is on. If your FS98 is in a different location or on a different drive the auto-install programs might have problems finding it. I hope this is some help as I'm not familiar with WinXP just yet & it's all I can think of.

FS98 will run well enough without the Patch installed (I was never exactly sure what it does anyway) & not having the Converter is a minor inconvenience which can be overcome. It's obviously best if you can install both updates but not essential to use FS98.

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Reply #4 - Dec 2^nd, 2005 at 1:13pm

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Cheers Hagar,
I'll try again tomorrow night, and will download direct from the forum here. It's probably my downloads are corrupted, but we'll see...

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Reply #5 - Dec 18^th, 2005 at 10:10am

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FS98 works under XP here without graphics acceleration. switching it on the framerate goes way down and after a few seconds my machine restarts...

while i tried severall things to get it going i stumbled over a special sale of FS2002 and that works without trouble, so i just stopped trying.

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