NOTE: The virtual OS has direct access to your CD/DVD drive but not your hard drive. Select your resolution and it should run like normal windows. Browse /v/, do whatever, wait for the installation to finish. Anyway, the virtual machine will now proceed to actually install windows XP on the space you allocated on your hdd earlier. Click finish and the Virtual OS will run, should be easy to figure out how to get back to your desktop (hint: the big ass toolbar at the top). Find the guest system's recommended hardware, and use some common sense. Don't be stupid and select 64 gigs of ram, 8 cores, etc. You can customize the specs of your virtual machine by selecting customize hardware. Type in the serial you have, select disc space on you hdd that you will allocate for the virtual OS, and then install 4. Select install from disc if you have the old OS in your CD/DVD Drive or browse for your ISO 3. If this fails, try checking the PC Gaming Wiki, where you can find workarounds and tweaks for thousands of games.ġ. Usually, this is easy to fix: just set it to run under compatibility mode (right-click > Properties > Compatibility tab). Some old games, especially those from the 95/98 era, may be incompatible with newer versions of Windows. Old Windows games incompatible with modern Windows
This method works for several old games, such as Age of Empires or Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds.
Of course, if the path to the game is different in your machine, modify the middle line accordingly. It's easy, just create a new text file (Notepad will do) and paste this:Ĭ:\"Program Files (x86)"\"StarCraft"\"Starcraft.exe" The simple solution: run the game, summon the task manager (ctrl+shift+esc), close the "explorer.exe" process.Ī more elegant solution: create a batch file to close explorer.exe and run the game at the same time. The cause: the game tried to set its own 256-color palette, but explorer.exe (aka the Windows shell) is resetting the palette.
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