I know there is a way to get TIE Fighter to run on Windows XP, and I also know that somebody here knows how to make that possible because i've asked before and somebody helped me and it worked. Now I just need that help again.

When I go to start a new tour of duty, after the initializing compat sequence thing comes up it crashes. The person who helped me referred me to some Microsoft Windows Application Compatability Toolkit (I believe that it what it was called) and also gave me some instructions on how to make it work. It would be great if somebody could help me out with that again.

Which version do you have? The old DOS version or the win95 version? (If it's the win95 version it will have a launcher program like JK).

Windows 95 version, the collectors CD rom.

It should work then, because it works for me :\

I have the one from the x-wind, tie fighter and x-wing vs tie fighter demo multipack, and it works for me on my xp computer.

Ditto.

addendum to original post: anyone know how to make TIE fighter work with a USB joystick?

Yes, you need to unplug all other devices that appear in the windows "game controllers" control panel. Only one listed in here will work (the top one i believe).

Eh? The collector's CDROM version is DOS only... I think it has a silly Windows 95 launcher or something but the actual installer and game are DOS.

I have used VDMSound (google it) and VDMS Launchpad (which makes configuring VDMS easy) with TIE Fighter 100% successfully. Make sure to enable low-level CD-ROM support and make sure that if you installed TIE Fighter onto a drive other than C (ie X:\GAMES\TIECD) that you move X:\TIE.CD to C:\TIE.CD or else it will refuse to run.

The Collectors CDROM is the DOS version. The win 95 version is called Tie95 not TieCD

I have TIE 95

Oh.

I didn't have to do anything on this computer to get TIE95 running, works great for me (except that ISDs-don't fire bug :p )

Funny that this should come up. I went through the exact same thing about a week ago but now I can't find the webpage that explained how to patch the .exe file. I found something else that might help though.

1. Download the Application Compatibility Toolkit 2.0 for Windows XP from here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/downloads/appkitxp.asp


2. Install it

3. Run QFixApp

4. Click Browse and choose the path to TIE95.EXE

5. In "Layers" tab, click on Win95

6. In "Fixes" tab, DISABLE "EmulateJoystick"

7. Click on "Run" to run TIE Fighter 95 and it should work now.

Good luck.