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I'm trying to get an old game I love, Pizza Syndicate (aka Fast Food Tycoon, aka Pizza2) to work on my Win7 PC. It works ok for a minute or two, but soon enough it'll get a critical error, a message telling me that it can't blit will pop up, and the game crashes. Now, I'm only a home computer enthusiast, I have no training/experience in the industry, so I apologise beforehand if this question is ridiculous. From what I can read up on 'blit' or 'blt' it was phased out after directx 7. So I thought 'perhaps if I install directx 7 it might help the game to function'. So I attempt to install directx 7, but I then receive the error message telling me that it's not compatible with the version of Windows that I'm running.
Does anyone know of any way in which I can adjust my PC to get around it's Pizza Syndicate blitting problem? Have you tried just installing it by running the installer in, and then also running the installed game in compatibility mode? Try installing and running marked for the latest windows version it was originally intended for. If it still crashes after that try running it marked as 'run as administrator' as well. After a quick google, I found this ( translated from German ) - which apparently gets it running on W7 32bit. I don't know about 64 bit, it doesn't say.
If you want to try it, it may be a good idea to back up your PC first, just in case. As I say I haven't tried it, just found via a search. Its just 'belt and braces' stuff in case anything odd occurs, but it ensures you can easily get your PC back to as it is now, should you need to. Hopefully someone else may be able to offer further advice from experience. Note: you may get away with installing Directx9 from the MS download center onto your W7 as its supposed to be backwards compatible with DX8 etc and then install the game.
Did you try installing DX9 and then the game? What is the exact error message and error number etc that is reported? And does it look like a W7 report, or a crash report from the game itself? It may be, that the game just does not run on 64bit. I cant say, as I haven't got it to try.
What version of W7 do you have, if its one of the 'top' ones, ultimate, professional or enterprise, it may be worth seeing if it runs in XPMode. Some games do as long as they are not too graphically demanding. * The error message is: Screen::Surface_Blit: can't Blt(0,0,41,38,466,376): Errorcode=- * W7 64 bit home edition. This query is still open.
I don't know why you don't find the same solution like me, but try this link to get help: It is the 'in-official' new forum who linked by www.pizza-syndicate.de;) This should work, they make a tutorial-video for thoose, who don't understand what they should do. You find it also in thread i'm posting at top. And you should install the 'update' from cultgames.nl for Pizza Syndicate 1.0 to 1.01 All you need is here: http://cultgames.nl/forum/board.php?boardid=10.
Frith is moving away from Windows XP (). But he still has some old DOS programs he’s either unwilling or unable to give up. Can they run in Windows 8? The big question is: Does your new PC run the 32- or 64-bit version of Windows 7 or 8? If you have the 32-bit version (referred to as x86 for historical reasons), you should have no trouble with many (but not all) DOS programs. But if you’re using the 64-bit version (x64), running a DOS program is officially impossible. But that doesn't mean it can't be done.
Download kamen rider w episode 17 sub indo. [Have a tech question? Ask PCWorld Contributing Editor Lincoln Spector. Send your query to.] Some DOS programs will not work in any current version of Windows.
Generally, these are utilities that work close to the hardware, such as defraggers and diagnostic tools. But really, you shouldn’t be running outdated versions of these tools, anyway. Some DOS games also run close to the hardware, and these might not work in Windows, either.
But these will probably work in a virtual machine. I discuss that option below. If you don’t know if your PC is running a 32- or 64-bit version of Windows, now is the time to find out. In Windows 7, click Start, right-click Computer, and select Properties. In Windows 8’s Search charm, type pc info, and select PC info. Either way, you’ll find the answer in the System Type field.
Identifying a 64-bit version of Windiws 8. If you’re running the 32-bit version, you can launch a DOS program by simply selecting the.com file. The first time you do this in Windows 8, you’ll probably be asked about installing a feature called NTVDM; click Install this feature. If the program fails to run, or if you’re running Windows 8 x64, try running it in.