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Is there a patch to allow Freespace to run in Windows XP Professional? I just upgraded, and now FS won't start. Thanks,

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The original FreeSpace? Uh, yea ... so they stopped working on that years ago ...

If I remember right, you can use XP's built in "emulator" of Microsoft's older OSes ... ??

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FS1 works fine on XP home edition for me, but I'm not sure about Pro. I'm no pro.

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There isn't much of a difference between Home and Pro ... other than networking capabilities ...

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get the 1.06 patch. It works flawlessly on my XP Pro box - except you CANNOT alt-tab out. You WILL lose it. So make sure nothing kicks you back to the desktop and you should be fine.

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There's no reason to Alt-tab out anyways

Except when your a crazy mission designer.

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FS1 didn't work under XP Pro for me until I got the 1.06 patch. Go to volition-inc.com/fs and look on the downloads page for the patch. Only problem: I can't temporarily exit to Windows using the alt-tab. Annoying. Does anyone know how I can get the alt-tab to work?

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Didn't you notice Alphakiller say that alt-tab would make it crash?

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Originally posted by Alphakiller
get the 1.06 patch. It works flawlessly on my XP Pro box - except you CANNOT alt-tab out. You WILL lose it. So make sure nothing kicks you back to the desktop and you should be fine.

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I have XP and FS runs fine, if a little slower than if it was under 98se.

XP rules

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Move thread, for great justice.

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FS1 wouldn't for me in Win 98 until I got the 1.06 patch, it would just lock up. It runs fine on my XP Pro anyhow.

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