Max Payne 1 and windows XP....

[DanteGR]

Ok I tried to install Max Payne on my brand-new laptop which runs on windows XP.
I installed it successfully but when I try to run the game nothing happens.
And I mean absolutely nothing.
I press play max payne but the computer makes nothing at all.
It just stays on the desktop.
Does anybody know what the problem is?
Thank you in advance.

[bigjko]

Try this patch: ftp://ftp.3drealms.com/patches/maxpayne1-05patch.exe

[DanteGR]

Thank you so much it runs like a beauty now :)

[Phil25]

My cousin had Max Payne on XP and it worked like a dream.

[remixor]

Worked fine on my XP PC as well, back when I had XP.

[DanteGR]

Why what do u have now remixor?

[bigjko]

Windows 2000, I hope.

[remixor]

2000 indeed. I had 2000 when it came out, got XP because that's how my then-new PC was delivered, was horrified, and switched back to 2000.

[twifkak]

? What's horrifying about XP?

[remixor]

I just couldn't stand it. I suppose it's not HORRIBLE, but 2000 feels much more comfortable to me and I've many fewer problems with it.

[twifkak]

Wow. That post didn't say anything. I'm curious -- I'm no XP fanboy (how can a person that visits /. be a M$ fanboy?) -- which is better. I skipped from 95 first edition to 98se to XP, so I was wondering if 2K was legitimately better, or if you're just afraid of change, like me. :P

So, specifics. :7

[bigjko]

XP doesn't introduce anything useful. It's got lots of useless junk like auto-thumbnailing, takes more memory, changes things that just weren't meant to be changed, oh and I've heard that sometimes instead of displaying the Blue Screen of Death it defaults to just restarting, giving you no information as to what's wrong. Oh, and Win2k has proved to be more stable.

[twifkak]

XP doesn't introduce anything useful. It's got lots of useless junk like auto-thumbnailing, takes more memory, changes things that just weren't meant to be changed, oh and I've heard that sometimes instead of displaying the Blue Screen of Death it defaults to just restarting, giving you no information as to what's wrong. Oh, and Win2k has proved to be more stable.
I'll accept "takes more memory" and "less stable" -- the rest can be turned off. (Believe me -- my windows "appearance" is more streamlined than 2000. I turn all themes and animations and junk off immediately.) The BSoD thing may be true -- I've experienced something like that, where you saw it, but then it restarted immediately, so you didn't get a chance to read it, but it was a hardware failure... So I dunno. In any case, thanks for the inf0.

[bigjko]

I'll accept "takes more memory" and "less stable" -- the rest can be turned off. (Believe me -- my windows "appearance" is more streamlined than 2000. I turn all themes and animations and junk off immediately.) The BSoD thing may be true -- I've experienced something like that, where you saw it, but then it restarted immediately, so you didn't get a chance to read it, but it was a hardware failure... So I dunno. In any case, thanks for the inf0.

Yeah, most everything can be tuned to fit your liking in any OS(I don't even use explorer.exe anymore, it takes up memory :P), but the points are valid none the less. Those things I mentioned are useless, and pretty much everything that's different about Win2k and WinXP is useless "appearance" stuff like that.

[Pinball]

Ahhh, Windows 2000. I was playing Castle Wolfenstein Enemy Territory online with WinXP Home, and for some reason, it wasn't working right after installing some bogus scanner drivers. So I said, "What the hell," and put Win2000 on the system. Wolfenstein ET ran like doo doo. It ran like I had a 386. (I have a 2GHZ Atholon 2400+ with almost a gig of ram and a 128mb Nvidia Geforce FX 5200+). When I put Return to Castle Wolfenstein on the machine running 2000, it blue screened with an error dump count-up. Safe mode was useless and the system would not boot. I was hosed as we say in the IT world. So it was back to XP for me and the games work like gold. So I have to disagree that XP is really all that bad.:P

[tamer68]

Try this patch: ftp://ftp.3drealms.com/patches/maxpayne1-05patch.exe


I've same problem with GT INTERACTIVE DRIVER . It doesn't work with XP . Do you know any pacth for it?

Thanks...

[AGA]

w00t. Anyone sane who tried 2000 and XP will know that 2K is by far the superior product. I've been running it for more than 2 years and I've never had a problem with any (modern, non-DOS, obviously) games on it.

[remixor]

I don't even use explorer.exe anymore

How do you go about doing that? :confused: Doesn't it just restart automatically when closed?

[AGA]

explorer.exe IS Windows, so I dunno how you run Windows without it...

[Eye-Z]

yea i had the same problem with max payne one it start to load then just go to windows..lol

it was on xp...max payne 2 works like a dime though

[evanrm]

Hi all,
I have installed Max Payne on my computer running XP, and the game loads okay, even runs for about 5 minutes, then the computer resets itself and says that XP has recovered from a serious error. This is the tech report:

BCCode : 19 BCP1 : 00000020 BCP2 : 865E4680 BCP3 : 865E4928
BCP4 : 0A55000D OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 768_1
C:\DOCUME~1\Default\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER9ea7.dir00\Mi ni011106-01.dmp
C:\DOCUME~1\Default\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER9ea7.dir00\sy sdata.xml

I have installed the 1.05 patch, but that hasn't helped. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks,
Evan

[Eye-Z]

you are doomed


lol nah iono, mine won't even get into the game it starts loading then once it fully loads is crashes to desk top.

[Jolaes]

WELCOME to the new members: Pinball, Tamer68 and Evanrm (I hope I missed no one :) )

1st let me allow a :D here; by merits of a classic FPS a classic adventure site boosts its ranks with a full squadron... Hope you guys will play adventures as well :P

On the w2k vs XP battle:

don't be fooled by the names, XP is simply NT 5.1... BUT...

Win2000 was designed to be a successor of NT 4 BUSINESS servers and workstations so a lot of Win98 games need manual hacks to run while XP offers a more comfy compatibility mode environment. Sometimes only VirtualPC can help :shifty:
XP is a necessity if you want to build a MODERN multimedia platform because of

- faster/more compatible drivers (think of proper AGP 4x/8x support for older video cards!),

- support of proper cleartype font display on newer, big (19"->) displays

- you have a HP or dual core processor and need optimal performance

- you KNOW that memory and disk cache managment is WAY more effective in XP and know how to tune/optimize it (even if you don't know can use tweaker utilities) /assuming your comp has enough horsepower for it/

- many more reasons, concerning software development in the first place

[Jolaes]

Evan, Eye-Z,

you might want to try running it in win98 compatibility mode so that only one processor will be used and standard time slices and more tolerance is given to lagging processes (which is crucial for many badly coded older titles).

Evan, if your comp is so unstable, check for overheating CPU (enter BIOS) and possibly damaged memory modules! I recommend Knoppix or Ubuntu Linux boot for memory diagnostic purposes but Sandra 2004 or 2005 will do as well. Plus recheck DirectX 9c and video card drivers if you qualify for Max Payne "hardwarely". ;)

[Eye-Z]

Jolaes

I am sure I have already tried that, also turned Hypthreading off. Still no luck.

if you go to www.3drealms.com

You can download an XP patch. Should work fine after that.

:)