blade runner wont install

Thekwango · 4 Jul 2010 at 15:59

howdy folks,

as the title says bladerunner wont install for me. picked the game up for a whole 99p!! but when i try to install the game i get an error message saying,

"\??\D:\setup\setup.exe cannot start or run due to incompatibility with 64 bit versions of windows"

any idea how to get the game to install?

FeFiDoh · 4 Jul 2010 at 16:25

tried the compatability mode? maybe a VM? Sometimes google throws up some answers as i have had issues with LBA/Grim Fandango.

Thekwango · 4 Jul 2010 at 17:38

tried compatability mode, no joy. dunno what vm is! and google is throwing up weird stuff!! lol

john_s · 5 Jul 2010 at 11:27

VM - virtual machine.

Sun's Virtualbox is straightforward enough to install.

Leebone · 5 Jul 2010 at 12:31

Finished this years ago, Awesome game.

'Wes · 5 Jul 2010 at 12:57

Leebone said:
Finished this years ago, Awesome game.

QFE.

arknor · 5 Jul 2010 at 13:07

yea brilliant game and one of the first pc games i ever played

it was a real golden age of gaming back then

Wossi · 5 Jul 2010 at 14:57

I still have this in it's original box

robin66 · 5 Jul 2010 at 14:57

I think there were alternate endings if I remember correctly.

My dog got blown up, but I got the girl in mine.

arknor · 5 Jul 2010 at 15:03

robin66 said:
I think there were alternate endings if I remember correctly.

My dog got blown up, but I got the girl in mine.

yea about 5 i think

dave1983 · 5 Jul 2010 at 15:47

what compatability did you try? normally windows 2000 normally works or try running as admin.

Thekwango · 5 Jul 2010 at 19:59

cheers for the replies fellas, tried windows 2000 compatability but not joy and i'm afraid i couldnt make head nor tail out of VirtualBox!!

overclick · 5 Jul 2010 at 22:55

loved this game. Massive fan of the film (directors cut if u aint seen it). The game has 13 endings from memory. I only ever finished it once, i have never been great at replaying games.

I have virtual machine on my other PC, old p4 running XP. Stuck it on to get the myst series to work, 5 games only got halfway through the 3rd then i bought this pc and can't go back.

VM can be a bit fidly it's trial and error sometimes to get old games to work but i have allways managed to eventually.

sirlemonhead · 5 Jul 2010 at 23:01

I keep meaning to play this again, it was awesome

HAz · 5 Jul 2010 at 23:29

wow old school lol, i remeber seeing this in some record store years ago.

Thekwango · 5 Jul 2010 at 23:35

overclick said:
loved this game. Massive fan of the film (directors cut if u aint seen it). The game has 13 endings from memory. I only ever finished it once, i have never been great at replaying games.

I have virtual machine on my other PC, old p4 running XP. Stuck it on to get the myst series to work, 5 games only got halfway through the 3rd then i bought this pc and can't go back.

VM can be a bit fidly it's trial and error sometimes to get old games to work but i have allways managed to eventually.

Ah right ok, i'll perservere with a VM and see how i get on. would love to play this gem of a game, vaguely remember playing a bit of it way back but wasn't really into gaming back then. but everyone speaks very highly of it. i'll have to try and find a walkthrough for setting up a vm to run it as i can hardly make head nor tale when i install one!! lol

caz32 · 5 Jul 2010 at 23:44

I need this game again so I can get hit hard by nostalgia

Thekwango · 5 Jul 2010 at 23:52

if i could just get it to install for me i'd be so happy!!

Weazle · 6 Jul 2010 at 00:12

You should try running it on DOSBox.

stooeh · 6 Jul 2010 at 02:21

The setup file is probably a 16bit executable which means you can't run it on a 64bit OS. If you have access to a 32bit windows you can install it on a VM and run it from there.

Personally I use VMWare Player since it is free to run the VM. To create the actual VM I've used EasyVMX