Has anyone been able to get this program to work? I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit and every time I start, regardless of compatibility settings or it's own display options, it always fails to start, throwing me an error saying the "Sprint Engine has stopped working". From what I've been able to gather from Google, the problem is that I'm using a 64-bit Windows. Can anyone suggest away around this? I've already tried using Windows XP Mode in Virtual PC, to no avail. There was one time I had to do some command-line stuff to disable Hyper-threading on Riven to get it to work on newer processors, could something like this be the solution?

I've never heard of this program before. And I've had a great many problems getting older games to work, like the Star Wars Dark Forces II and Mysteries of the sith. :< And sadly, they don't even work in Steam.

Have you tried using Virtual PC to run an older OS? Like 2000 or 98SE? (Or virtual box or whatever it is called, can't keep all these program names straight)

I'll try one more time though, since it now all of a sudden it started working, but with the graphics looking like @$$(again, regardless of compatibility settings -- do these actually do anything?)

EDIT- nope, doesn't run at all under virtual PC. It runs natively now(I have no idea why) but the graphics look terrible(under software rendering, I get two badly-colored 1/4th screens next to each other, in Direct3D mode I get complete scrambled nonsense.). Once again, the compatibility options are completely useless. My video card drivers are up to date(or at least as up to date as a laptop card can be) and I'm running DirectX 11. Any ideas?

It's all fine and good that you used XP mode. I did the same thing, and it didn't work.

I had to switch back to Win98SE to get some of the older games to work because DirectX needed to be older than what XP starts out with. Hence why I suggested that, to go older than XP.

Ok I'll see what I can do about using 98. I still have doubts, but I'll give it a shot.

EDIT- this will take awhile since I have to download a 98 SE ISO(cbf to go out to Bensalem to get an identical copy from my Aunt). I'll get back to you later.

BUMP

Ok I got Hidden Evil to install under Windows 98 SE in Windows Virtual PC, but it won't recognize the DVD drive to run it. I did a full install, and I have a crack, I just need to know if there's any way to transfer this to my Virtual PC's virtual harddrive?

This is unrelated to your current question, but have you tried using DOSBox at all? It can sometimes run Windows 95 games:
http://www.dosbox.com/

DOSBox + Windows 95 is generally not a good idea.

I have it on my psp and it sucks. I still have to try it on my Wii, but I don't see the point in using it on my computer anymore since I can run windows 98 SE in Virtual PC and boot into DOS from that. Anyway does anyone know how I can get this file from my real harddrive into my virtual PC harddrive? I'm gonna try using my PSP Phat as a flash drive, and if I have to I'll burn the file to a CD-ROM.

EDIT- PSP won't work, should I try burning to a CD, or is there an easier way?

EDIT- nevermind, I looked it up and found out how to attach my virtual hd in disk management, then applied the crack that way. Wish me luck...

EDIT- ok it was working for about 5 minutes and then the whole thing freakin' crashed...

Goodluck! Hopefully you can make it work. If it does, I am sooo doing this myself. So much easier than having a second desktop to deal with :p

Ok, it BARELY works, if I skip the movies and go right into a new game. The only problem now is the graphics are very choppy(squares keep appearing and disappearing everywhere).

EDIT- Oh ho ho, and the Romulan guard in the training mission spawns below the terrain, so I can't neck pinch him, and thus cannot continue past that point. I'm thinking of throwing in the towel at this point. Unless you have any other suggestions?

Only other thing I would suggest is partition a part of the harddrive off and install Win98 onto that partition. :<

I think that could actually be much worse, as my video card is too new and too heavily customized by my laptop's manufacturer to have any chance of running on Windows 98. I'd be stuck with very basic VGA support, rather than the emulated 4 mb hardware accelerated video card Virtual PC gives me.

Maybe run it in an XP 32 bit VM?

If you were paying attention, I already tried that earlier, and it didn't work...

Maybe try Virtualbox.