Oregon Trail 4
Momisme
Okay, so I am Mom. I am trying to help my kids load Oregon Trail 4th Edition
on our computer. (I am sure that this is a game that no one here has played
for a while! Hopefully someone has known it at some point to even hope that
I can find help with this.) We have a windows xp. The game says windows
95/98 or higher. The game loads up okay. The other things like Quiktime,
etc. all loaded, but when we enter the game, there is no people showing up
to talk to or choose as a partner. Is this a video card problem? If so, can
anyone help me find out if we can even play this game on our computer? I
know nothing about computers and games...and so don't want to mess with
anything that ruin another area in the computer!
Thanks for any help!
Jenny100
It's unlikely to be a video card problem with a QuickTime game.
You say QuickTime is loaded, but did you use the version that came
with the game? The user comments at Amazon.com say the game won't work
with QuickTime versions later than version 3.
At
http://support.broderbund.com/fix.asp?isid=9217&prog=1294818461&printer=1
it says the animated characters won't be seen if you have the wrong
QuickTime or your display settings are wrong. Have you tried using
different desktop settings? Have you tried running the game in compatibility
mode?
Momisme via GamesKB.com
Thanks for your help. You are right. I was using a higher Quiktime.
Perhaps that was the problem. I haven't tried to reload it since that day.
If one installs the older quicktime, would it work...or does that mess with
the newer version that is already in the computer.
I don't know what compatibility mode is.
thank you again!
Mom
Jenny100 wrote:
>> Hey,
>> Okay, so I am Mom. I am trying to help my kids load Oregon Trail 4th
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>>
>> Thanks for any help!
>
>It's unlikely to be a video card problem with a QuickTime game.
>You say QuickTime is loaded, but did you use the version that came
>with the game? The user comments at Amazon.com say the game won't work
>with QuickTime versions later than version 3.
>At
>http://support.broderbund.com/fix.asp?isid=9217&prog=1294818461&printer=1
>it says the animated characters won't be seen if you have the wrong
>QuickTime or your display settings are wrong. Have you tried using
>different desktop settings? Have you tried running the game in compatibility
>mode?
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Jenny100
> Jenny,
> Thanks for your help. You are right. I was using a higher Quiktime.
> Perhaps that was the problem. I haven't tried to reload it since that
> day. If one installs the older quicktime, would it work...or does that
> mess with the newer version that is already in the computer.
You'd need to uninstall the newer QuickTime before installing the older
one. And to avoid errors, you'd have to uninstall anything to do with the
newer one, despite any warnings you get that say some software may not
work if you uninstall the newer one. Otherwise you get remnants of the new
QuickTime conflicting with parts of the older one when you try to run your
game. At least that's been my experience.
> I don't know what compatibility mode is.
If you have Windows XP, you right-click on the the game shortcut on your
desktop, choose Properties from the menu, then the Compatibility tab.
There should be a drop-down menu box there where you can select different
versions of Windows. Use Win 95 or 98/ME for older Windows games.
Hopefully this tricks the game into playing the way it would on a computer
with Win 95 or 98.
If there is no desktop shortcut, you have to browse to the game folder
using "My Computer" or "Windows Explorer" and right-click the game
executable to get to the compatibility tab.
You may want to post over in the Gameboomers Glitches forum
http://www.gameboomers.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi/forum/5.html
"Inferno," who is moderator there, has a lot more experience than I do
getting older games to run on newer computers. She has a procedure for
having multiple QuickTime versions on the same computer which I don't
fully understand. I'm lazy and my favored method for getting older games
to work is to play them on an older computer that doesn't require any
special tweaking. Good luck with your game.
Jenny100