Games and Win2kPro, compatibilities, etc

[stultissimus]

I recently installed Win2kPro and came across a few problems in regard to games. Using NTFS format for my harddisk, I had installed Red Alert 2 and Half-life. Within an hour after installation, I found that all files in each game folder had mysteriously vanished. All folders in the actual game directories remained, but any files in the folders were gone. The registry was not affected, however. I reinstalled both programs and experienced extremely long loading times for Red Alert 2 and a message saying that "Service Pack 3 is required" when I tried to run Half-Life.

I re-FDISK'd my HD and formatted it in the FAT32 file system. I was only able to reinstall and test out Half-Life before a partition fluke in the drives forced me to reformat a second time (I fixed that myself). Upon running Half-Life, I was again confronted with the "Service Pack 3 required" warning.

For the record, I did download the latest Critical Updates pack and Service Pack 2 off the MS Update site. I searched for a Service Pack 3 but found none.

Does anyone recognize these symptoms and know of a way to fix this? I do know running games on Win2kPro is possible under the FAT32 file system, so there has to be something I can do to remedy this.

Thanks.

 

[Spagina]

Well, with the hard drives, it sounds to me like maybe they are having some issues of their own. Run a scandisk to see if you have any bad sectors on the hard drive. With the game itself, I can help you with that. Download the latest Half-Life patch before opening the program for the first time. It clears up the Service Pack 3 message and lets you enter your reg number and play and all that good stuff.

 

[stultissimus]

Thanks!

I have a question about NTFS though: will the NT file system cause certain programs to run poorly even if they do at all?

 

[Woodie]

Shouldn't make any difference.

--Woodie