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I was reading the thread about The Enemy Within and decided I needed to play the that. I pulled out all the Descent disks and \"The Definitive Collection\" was the newest set of the D1/D2 disks I have.

The D2X-XL instructions said I should have a clean install of D1 and D2 which works out as that was the goal anyway.

The problem is XP crashes hard (thunk) when I use the install.exe on disk 1. I tried the right click and set compatibility to 95 but it crashed again.

How do I install The Definitive Collection?

Thanks!

Try exploring the CD and running the DOS install and not the Win95 install.

CDN_Merlin wrote:Try exploring the CD and running the DOS install and not the Win95 install.

X2. the Win95 version of Descent was never any good. Even on Windows 95 o_0

I'd like to re-iterate (just in case) that the only requirement for Enemy Within is Descent 2 1.2 (I think, might be 1.1); you don't need D2X-XL for it.

However, you might need D2X-XL to actually get the game to be playable in the first place, so if that is the case... as you were.

Apparently, my system does not like \"The Definitive Collection\".

Damn good thing I'm a Descent nut and have earlier CD's of the collection.

Pulled out the Windows 95 (only) 2 disk D2 Vertigo Set and installed them. They worked.

Guess I won't be seeing D1 anytime soon as those disks won't work. I was so looking forward to the Descent Anniversary Edition too.

Now I am following the directions for the D2X-XL setup to see how that goes.

D2X-XL is in and seems okay, I just have to set some stuff up having played D3 for soooo long.

I do need to know how to make the ship not move forward automatically by itself. It did not do it when I installed D2, it started after D2X-XL installation.

It's hard to look around when the ship wants to go.

Praetorian wrote:I do need to know how to make the ship not move forward automatically by itself. It did not do it when I installed D2, it started after D2X-XL installation.

It's hard to look around when the ship wants to go.

Are you using a Laptop?

If so. Are you using a mouse or are you using the touchpad to control your ship?

Another thing, have you tried different peripherals? Does the problem persist with a ......

* Newer mouse?
* Different keyboard?
* Joystick/gamepad?
* keyboard only?

If any of these. Try unplugging them to see if that fixes the problem.

Also, don't run the \"setup\" program for the sound.

Beats me why the ship moved forward as it has stopped and it is a PC not a laptop.

D2X-XL is in and D2 is again as addictive as it was the first time I played it. You would think it would not be but it is now 2:14 am

Thanks for the help.