Vengence of the Kilrathi Deluxe CD

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I have the original cd of Vengence of the Kilrathi CD which I have not played for quite a long time. I tried installing it on the same computer that I've installed it on before. The only way I have been able to install it sucessfully in the past was by copying the entire cd to the harddrive and taking off the Read Only option from the files and it worked fine. Now when I try the same thing it says I do not have enough expanded memory to play the voices and some of the sound effects are gone. I would really rather not use a memory manager if possible to get the game to work, particularily when I know it has worked before.
If anyone has a different installation method than the one I described above, I would appreciate it if you let me know.
 
Well, the installation method seems all right. It's the one I used, anyways. What exactly is your system configuration? That can help tremendously.
 
Oops, I suppose I did forget that. Its a Windows 98 SE machine Pentium Pro 150 processor and 32 megabytes of ram. I don't really understand why the game can't be installed from the cd. To my knowledge nothing has changed, but it says it doesn't have enough expanded memory. Would a bootable game disk possibly help and how do I make one?
 
Possibly. Are you trying to run the game in Windows or DOS? If you're trying to make it work in DOS, try running WC2 in Windows once, just for kicks. Lots of people have no trouble running this game in Windows 98 itself. If you're really hard up and want to use the actual install program, you might try copying all the files as you said you have done. Then, with all of the files on your had drive, there should be a .pif file in your C:\windows directory called "MS-DOS Mode for games with EMS and XMS support"
If you run this file, you'lll restart into a DOS mode prompt with some basic configurations, rather like a boot disk. This should at least get you far enough to run the install program off of your harddrive so you can configure your stuff. Now if you're lucky, you can exit out of that and have Wing Commander 2 running in Windows. If not, you can play with the settings of that .pif file until you get a configuration that lets you run it in DOS. Good luck!
 
I tried running the WC2 Deluxe CD on my PC, on Windows 98 and Windows 2000, both times, it only gave me one option for the CD location: A:\.
 
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