New guy here in search of a fix. Please help.

DEFYANT · Post by **DEFYANT** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 9:58 am

Hello all.

I have played D1 and D2 to the end way back when. I have some time and would like to get back into the games and maybe get some Descent games I have not played.

Here is my issue:
I have a newer (6 months old) computer running Vista. When I install the D2 CD and click \"install\", I immediately get an error message:

\"Unsupported 16-bit application.

The program or feature cannot start due to incompatablity with 64 bit versions of windows. Please contact the vendor to ask for a 64 bit windows compatable version is available.\"

Do any of you have a fix for this?

Thanks

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 10:08 am

Read: viewtopic.php?t=15572 for info on how to extract the needed files from the CD, then all you need is dxx-rebirth which you can download for free here: http://www.dxx-rebirth.com/

Aus-RED-5 · Post by **Aus-RED-5** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 4:25 pm

....and here too http://www.descent2.de/

DEFYANT · Post by **DEFYANT** » Mon Jul 13, 2009 6:12 pm

Thanks for you help.

The Bad News:
Mixing, patching and patching computer program files seems to be out of my league. So although I have everything I need to make it work, I just cant get it together to make it work. Descent 2 fail. Bummer.

The Good News:
Descent 3 / Mercenary showed up today. I had wanted to play D2 first, then transition into D3. With the troubles with D2 I figured hell with it, and loaded up D3. Wow - nice game, I cant wait to really dig into it.

Thanks again