Any way to get 059 working on XP?

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#1 Sep 3, 2024, 2:28 am Hide

Yancakes

Odd as it sounds I use an XP computer for a lot of my gaming. I have a modern computer of course, but tucked behind it is an XP tower with all the hardware I ever wanted back in my late teens and a 2TB HD with all of the games of the era I ever wanted to play lol

But for like 20 years IVAN has always been one I've my most played games. I even had an account here a decade+ ago, though that email is long gone lol but I though I'd put a copy of it on that computer, but 059 doesn't seem to work on XP. As much fun as I've had going back to some old variants (just did a deep run on CLIVAN) I would like to play the main game.

Any suggestions? Or is it not possible.

Thanks!
#2 Nov 12, 2024, 8:29 pm Hide

Banana_Enjoyer

You could dual boot, or try to emulate a Linux environment, that is the only way I imagine you could get the Linux version running on XP.

I don't know much about emulating environments but it is not difficult to install Linux mint
#3 Jan 11, 6:34 pm Hide

Yancakes

I mean, I'll just play it on my main modern computer at that point haha, thanks though
#4 Jan 26, 10:55 pm Hide

Dark-Star2018

why exactly won't it run on XP?
#5 Jan 29, 1:47 am Hide

Yancakes

Dark-Star2018 wrote
why exactly won't it run on XP?

Dunno. Older versions of the game work but not the newest. I can't remember what the error was now, it's been a while- something along the lines of it just not being a valid windows application. If you want I can boot that computer up tomorrow (or me windows 98 computer lol) and get the error message.