Hi stevetush,
Not a Valid Win32 Application Errors can occur if your game's installation
is damaged or corrupt.. The first step would be to redownload the game.
I suggest downloading it from a friends PC with a high speed connection,
and then burning it to a CD to install it on your PC once you get home.
Halo is a 32bit application as are most Windows XP installations, so that
type of error message can only mean the download is corrupt.
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stevetush Wrote:
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| HI jimmy.so far i've updated xp,repaired system32 files off the xp cd,disc
| cleaned,defragged,updated my sound driver(soundmax integrated driver,no
| card)updated video driver(intel extreme graphics,no video card).what i'm
| getting is an invalid system 32 right away soon as i hit install on halo and
| quake4.What i want to know is what the heck do'es system 32 have to do with a
| non dos,non 16 bit game thats a fairly new release?i had my anti
| virus,firewall,spyware all shut off during download.Can you help me,cause it
| took forever to download on dial up.Do you think it could be the speed of my
| connection?It only happened with these two demos.Thanks,hope your hard disc
| does'nt go limp again HA HA.
|
|| Hi stevetush,
||
|| I have been rebuilding my hard drive since Tuesday but I lost
|| all my old posts in the process. Can you post what you've tried please?
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|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S.
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||
|| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site:
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|| MS Games Help and Support Center:
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|| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
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|| stevetush Wrote:
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||| thanks i'll try that next time.But i still cant install quake demo or halo
||| demos,invalid system 32 error again,any solutions i havent tried that you can
||| give me?i tried what you said in the other thread .thanks!
|||
|||| Hi stevetush,
||||
|||| If you weren't able to run the game after installing it to the directory:
|||| Program Files yet were able to run it after installing it to the directory:
|||| games, most likely DOS long filename limitation was the root cause.
||||
|||| You would need to refer to C:\Program Files as C:\Proga~1
||||
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|||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||| Jimmy S.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||
|||| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site:
http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
|||| MS Games Help and Support Center:
http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
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|||| stevetush Wrote:
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||||| Found a remedy for jetfighteriv jimmy,thanks for your info but i found
||||| additional solutions,first don't install games on xp to c:/program
||||| files/game,make a directory to c:/games/games so its sepperate from your
||||| program files if you have to tweak it,then go into the config file and change
||||| the line that reads simuserthread=1 to read simuserthread=0,then configure
||||| your three files,jf4,jf4sim,and videosetup.Configure them only to disable
||||| visual effects,windows 95 configuration.Then go to task manager and end tasks
||||| on all backround programs,because otherwise you get a ddr_surfacelost
||||| error.Also used your advice on dos games,dosbox,vdm sound etc,but thats where
||||| you have to make sure you have your games in a seperate directory of their
||||| own also so you can put dosbox and vdm to use.Still working on quake and halo
||||| though,i tried everything you suggested in your thread.What did you mean by a
||||| 32 bit and 16 bit error and is there a solution.I tried recopying my system
||||| 32 off my resource cd to no avail.Is there a windows site , program or
||||| fix?thanks!
