XP Compatibility Mode

Quigs Snr

A quick one.

A guy just told me he has problems getting worms 2 (I'm sure he means Armagedden or world party or something) working with XP despite it saying it will work with XP on the box.

I didn't see the error, but I am thinking perhaps he needs to invoke Windows XP compatibility mode. Can someone refresh me again on how to tell XP to run a game as if it were a Win9x game ?

PiE

Right Click the .exe/shortcut -> Properties -> Compatability

Although I've never seen it have any actual effect, for me anyway ;\

sceptre

Originally posted by PiE
Although I've never seen it have any actual effect, for me anyway ;\

Made a difference for me running the Sims on XP (at least until installing the new addon, which makes it totally XP-compatible without fiddling with settings)

GUI

better yet
msft have released an application compatability toolkit..
where u can tailor the windows environment to fool applications..

i got it from somewhere..
2 megs i think

urs if u want it

KdjaCL

i never seen it work either just allows a window to run in 480 res.

kdja

Quigs Snr

Anyone know if I can get Worms united going with XP ?

Mountjoy Mugger

Toolkit can be found here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/.NetStandardServer/Install/2.6/NT5XP/EN-US/act26.exe