Myst_IV Demo will not run?

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OS is XP Home. I have downloaded the Demo (185MB) but when unzipped none of
the four executables does anything useful.
I do receive an error reporting that a required DLL rd_base.dll is not
present. It is present in the unzipped folder though. The Readme file in the
unzipped folder does not mention this problem. Perhaps I need to copy these
DLL's into my \System32\ folder.
Can someone in here please advise me?
Regards
Patrick

 

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"Patrick E. King" <seldom@home.pek> wrote in message
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> OS is XP Home. I have downloaded the Demo (185MB) but when unzipped none
of
> the four executables does anything useful.
> I do receive an error reporting that a required DLL rd_base.dll is not
> present. It is present in the unzipped folder though. The Readme file in
the
> unzipped folder does not mention this problem. Perhaps I need to copy
these
> DLL's into my \System32\ folder.
> Can someone in here please advise me?
> Regards
> Patrick
>
I've just downloaded and installed the demo - seems to work OK.
When you unzipped the file, did you preserve the folder names? There are
quite a few folders and sub-folders.
To save hard disk space I unzipped to a CD-R. I put this back in the drive
and it autoran and installed without problems.
Also running XP Home.
Nick.

 

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"Nick Lockett" <n.lockett2@nigriv.backwards.net> wrote in message
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>
> "Patrick E. King" <seldom@home.pek> wrote in message
> news:cgign8$5kr$1@kermit.esat.net...
>> OS is XP Home. I have downloaded the Demo (185MB) but when unzipped none
> of
>> the four executables does anything useful.
>> I do receive an error reporting that a required DLL rd_base.dll is not
>> present. It is present in the unzipped folder though. The Readme file in
> the
>> unzipped folder does not mention this problem. Perhaps I need to copy
> these
>> DLL's into my \System32\ folder.
>> Can someone in here please advise me?
>> Regards
>> Patrick
>>
> I've just downloaded and installed the demo - seems to work OK.
> When you unzipped the file, did you preserve the folder names? There are
> quite a few folders and sub-folders.
> To save hard disk space I unzipped to a CD-R. I put this back in the drive
> and it autoran and installed without problems.
> Also running XP Home.
> Nick.
>
>
Thanks for the info Nick....I did just as you did and it worked fine!
Patrick