TT on Windows 2003

Bart · Post by **Bart** » 21 Mar 2003 12:05

A friend of mine had downloaded Windows 2003 .NET Standard Server, and I tested it out. It's very good, easy server configurations and so on, and TT runs on it. It takes an extra step, but with TTDPatch it can run. The extra step is adding dplay.dll in the TT directory. Because that file is missing in Windows 2003 (unknown reason), you have to get one for Windows XP. I've included an attachment with the XP version of dplay.dll, which is working fine.

SHADOW-XIII · Post by **SHADOW-XIII** » 21 Mar 2003 12:17

Does TTD work there with 'win2k' on or off ??

Post by **orudge** » 21 Mar 2003 12:53

I assume win2k has to be on, as Windows .NET Server 2003 is based on XP/2000/NT.

Bart · Post by **Bart** » 21 Mar 2003 13:03

Indeed, the switch is on. Windows 2003 is just an improved version of XP, with additional features (and missing dlls

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SHADOW-XIII · Post by **SHADOW-XIII** » 21 Mar 2003 13:23

dplay is from DirectX .. right ??

Bart · Post by **Bart** » 21 Mar 2003 13:31

Yeah, it's DirectPlay, used for playing supported games over networks and Internet. I have no idea why's it's missing, since Win2003 is featuring DirectX 8.1. But that's why a triple boot is working, I simply copy missing files from my XP partition.

anaconda · Post by **anaconda** » 21 Mar 2003 14:14

I think it's because new versions of Windows don't use .dlls.

Edit: Newer than XP, that is.

mikeya · Post by **mikeya** » 23 Mar 2003 01:33

Hmm cool.. lets find a good download solution

Bart · Post by **Bart** » 23 Mar 2003 11:56

any versions newer than XP use dlls though. That's because 2003 is just Windows XP with newer files, and some minor improvements, plus all these new features, such as Ghosting, .NET server, ISS 6, and so on

SGWebmaster · Post by **SGWebmaster** » 24 Mar 2003 22:53

You can't run an OS without DLLs, what would happen to all the error messages about them?

Rob · Post by **Rob** » 25 Mar 2003 05:36

This would happen to the error messages:

Arathorn · Post by **Arathorn** » 25 Mar 2003 13:59

Haha LOL, that one should be in the funny pics topic.

SHADOW-XIII · Post by **SHADOW-XIII** » 26 Mar 2003 12:24

good for coping files in windows

or even better for downloading

Bart · Post by **Bart** » 26 Mar 2003 14:08

If you know what you're doing, you can alter the copying animation with ResHack. Simply convert that GIF to and AVI and put into the file in Windows that contains the original image. I don't know excactly which file, but it should be something like SHELL32.DLL or EXPLORER.EXE. I want to try it, but if something goes wrong, I have to reinstall, and I don't like reinstalling

way_2_fun · Post by **way_2_fun** » 29 Mar 2003 02:19

Hehe, good one Rob!

sordid · Post by **sordid** » 16 Apr 2003 07:54

run it in linux?

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