CTD on feat selection

If someone has a primary partition for their C drive and has a 2nd partition on the same hard drive that is a logical partition, that is absolutely a bad idea.

However, people can have one hard drive with 2 partitions, one for the operating system to be installed and run on while the other partition is for user or program data. In this instance, the trick is to fdisk both partitions to be primary partitions, not have a logical partition for the 2nd partition. This way, if the operating system crashes and the 1st partition has to be re-made, Windows can be reinstalled and the data remains untouched on the 2nd partition.
* Otherwise using a second partition that is a logical partition, the data has to be copied from the hard drive to a separate storage space and the partition remade, Windows reinstalled, and the data copied back to the hard drive.

Note1: If you have a hard drive with 2 partitions, 1st partition is primary and 2nd partition is also primary, the two partitions are separate - the computer treats both partitions as distinct drive space, just like if you had two hard drives. If you have to remake the 1st partition, the 2nd partition as a primary partition does not have to be deleted and remade when you remake the 1st partition. (It is primary partitions on computers that we love.)

Note2: If you have a hard drive with 2 partitions, 1st partition is primary and 2nd partition is logical, the logical partition is tied in to the primary partition. If you have to remake the primary partition, you lose the logical partition when you remake the primary partition. (It is logical partitions on computers that we hate.)

Note3: Companies who sell mass quantities of computers do not provide an original Windows CD disk with their computers. They would have to add the cost of a new Windows CD from Microsoft on to the price of a computer of which already includes their licensed right to put Windows on their computers...you would be paying for Windows to be on their brand of computer and also would pay for a separate copy of Windows on a CD disk. So, instead, they give you a Restore CD. However, the hard drive from the original install and setup of their brand of computer with Windows on it has a small partition, normally 1 MB or less, at the start of the hard drive. If that partition becomes corrupted, the Windows installed on the computer is destroyed and everything has to be setup from scratch using their restore CD disk. (It is the small partition on these computers that we hate.)

 

Uh...yeah. :scratchhe I knew we kept you around here for a reason. :nerd:

 

Huh. Krunch is geekier than I thought.

I was always told in CLN that multiple partitions were bad. Even if you have multiple harddrives, you can use Raid 1 (or was it Raid 0? It's been too long...) to 'stripe' them, making it appear as if it's a single harddrive. I never really realized there were legitimate reasons for people to have more than one partition.

 

With modern hard drives being large at a low cost (about 1 dollar per GB of storage) and the boot partition (the C drive) with the installed operating system being able to exceed 4 GigaBytes up to the total amount of hard drive space allowing needed storage with all of the user and program data, computers are preferred to have a single partition as a primary partition.

 

I've mentioned this problem before, but at that time was under the impression it was just a few ppl who got it, but after you mentioned it was just on win 98 I installed the game on my other 'puter which is win xp and the problems not on this computer at all so its definately win 98 specific.(which you already know lol)

 

Same for me. Using Windows 98 SE, getting a crash on rogue feat selection.

 

@ShiningTed: So, when are you gonna apply SP2 to your Windows XP ???

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You should look at getting and installing updated drivers, especially the motherboard drivers, before applying SP2 for Windows XP.

 

SP3 for Windows XP will not be available from Microsoft until about the 3rd quarter (or a later part) of 2007. If you downloaded and you installed that so-called non-Microsoft preview of SP3, that may be the cause of the problems with your XP.
report on preview SP3: "Third party software bundled in the download may represent serious threats to your computer. If your copy of Windows is legit and genuine, I see absolutely no reason for downloading this package."

Otherwise, it does not have to be a first install of SP2. It could be a reinstall of SP2. Updating drivers and applying SP2 does indeed fix XP installs having problems or issues, even if XP already had SP2 on it.

I have not used my W98 computer in about one year. I have never seen the error on XP of which I have played ToEE using Co8 5.0.2. The last time I played ToEE on W98 was when Co8 4 was current.

As far as the Temple.DLL being fixed with respect to W98, that will be a task for SpellSlinger when he returns.

In my experience, ToEE plays better on XP than it did on W98. I was merely offering help for you to fix your XP toward you being able to play ToEE on your XP. But, if you do not want to work on it, that would be all you need to say - you are not interested in working on your XP.

Lastly, differences between Fat32 and NTFS should never interfere with, disrupt, or cause problems with files. NTFS does have a security descriptor and some other things like extra properties, but those should not cause a problem. It would seem [to me] to be more likely that W98 does not like an offset used or something like that.

 

I was never mad or upset. :shrug:

 

Really.
If you give me the address where things go wrong, I at least have a starting point to work with. Right now I don't have a clue as to what should cause an OS specific problem in there.