Help please! Can't install GK2!!!!!!!!!!!

[Manhunter71]

I really hope somebody can help me!

Today I tried to reinstall GK2 - The Beast Within, but for som ereason my pc won't let me :frown:

I put the disk into the drive and I get the option to install, but when I click on install, I get the following message =

16 bit windows subsystem
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT. The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS +Microsoft Windows applications.
Choose "close" to terminate the application.

I really don't know what the problem is - system restore doesn't work, and the only programs I have installed and used recently are "Spybot Search and Destroy", "AdAware 6.0", and "RegCleaner"

I installed these programs in good faith from a PC Zone cover disk and used them to get rid of a lot of shit that was clogging up my pc.

I even used system restore to return my computer to a point where I had GK2 installed, but still no change :D

What's going on?
Any help would be much appreciated :D

[fov]

Let me guess... you installed SP2 at some point since the last time you installed GK2?

Look here. (http://forums.adventuregamers.com/showthread.php?t=6371)

(Why do we have stickies if no one reads them? :P)

[Manhunter71]

Let me guess... you installed SP2 at some point since the last time you installed GK2?

Look here. (http://forums.adventuregamers.com/showthread.php?t=6371)

(Why do we have stickies if no one reads them? :P)


:D :D Maybe that is the problem, but I am pretty sure that one of the restoration points I tried was pre-SP2?

Anyway, the link you provided gave some more options which I will try.
Hopefully one of these options will correct the problem :D

[fov]

:D :D Maybe that is the problem, but I am pretty sure that one of the restoration points I tried was pre-SP2?

Could be, but System Restore doesn't uninstall SP2. ;)

[Manhunter71]

Could be, but System Restore doesn't uninstall SP2. ;)

if so, then what am I supposed to do?
I really have this urge to replay GK2 :frown:

[fov]

Did you look at the link I posted before?

SP2 strips out a few things from the OS that this game (and others) require to install. You can either restore those few things from your original XP disk, or install a patch Packard Bell put out to solve the problem. It's all explained in the sticky post.

My point was just that even though you restored your machine to a point before you installed SP2, doing that didn't put the things back onto the machine that SP2 took out. System restore doesn't reverse the installation of a service pack.

[Manhunter71]

Did you look at the link I posted before?

System restore doesn't reverse the installation of a service pack.


That seems pretty dumb to me - I mean, what's the point of System Restore if it doesn't restore previous serious system settings?
I would have thought that the installation of SP2 was a serious system change!

Anyway, i have looked at the link you provided and hopefully some of those options might help.
For some reason XP came pre-installed on my PC so I don't have the original disks, but hopefully I'll be able to download the patch to correct this problem :D

[Manhunter71]

Thanks for your help fov!
I installed the patch witch fixed the problem and I now have GK2 installed again :D

I really don't know how I managed to miss the sticky thread!!

[fov]

That seems pretty dumb to me - I mean, what's the point of System Restore if it doesn't restore previous serious system settings?

Microsoft wants people to use SP2. That's why they make it nearly impossible to get rid of once you have it.

And it's why I still haven't installed it. ;)

Glad you got GK2 working. Don't worry about missing the sticky. I was in a pissy mood when I responded this afternoon. :pan:

[gillyruless]

Don't forget to patch the game, Mansie. You might also want to install the Interlace patch written by Hendroz available here:

http://www.gabrielknight2k.tk/

There are other GK goodies at his site.

[fov]

Good idea. The patch is here (ftp://ftp.sierra.com/pub/pc/patches/gk2pat.exe). You should patch the game before you start playing because it makes saves unusable. It fixes an error in chapter 3 or 4.

[Manhunter71]

Thanks for that guys :D
I'm pretty sure I installed the patch the last time I played GK2 but I've put so much crap onto my pc since then that I've lost track of what's been installed :crazy: