Comments on: Tex Murphy Overseer Install Guide

By: Disthron

Disthron — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:10:44 +0000

Hi, I’m having the same problem. Every time I try to examine or interact with anything the game crashes. Also the video is in black and white? What is up with that?

By: Disthron

Disthron — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:33:39 +0000

Hi, did any one else have a problem with the video in the game being all black and white? Also it crashes as soon as I try to examine something.

By: Tex Murphy Radio Theater and DOSBox Guides - The Recap! | Fourth Law

Tex Murphy Radio Theater and DOSBox Guides - The Recap! | Fourth Law — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:58:13 +0000

[...] Tex Murphy Overseer Install GuideTime Out! Free Wii Games?Tex Murphy Under a Killing Moon - DOSBox Guide (No CDs)Tex Murphy Rides Again (DOSBox w/o CDs)Wing Commander I on DOSBox Video GuideSmart Home Media Project - Phase II - Hack That XboxMySQL Authentication Woes - MythTVDB and XBMCOpen Source Web Development - Vista StyleSmart Home Media Project - XebianAnnouncing Nolan 03/27/2008 and…uh…Fireworks [...]

By: Tanstaafl

Tanstaafl — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:11:04 +0000

Please do!

The problem with VM and VPC is that the video drivers are not accelerated. This is what keeps the framerate so low… I understand VMWare is working on this and their new Fusion product for the Mac has a DirectX capable video driver. Hope they get it over to the PC side soon!

By: Tanstaafl

Tanstaafl — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:09:00 +0000

Ok. Let’s see if the two issues are similar. Arne had to create a TEX.INI file–mosdl, is yours present? Arne, does it work on another computer? Are you both using XP SP3 and or dual cores?

By: mosdl

mosdl — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:28:57 +0000

Same here - crashes when I try to use anything in tex’s office.

By: Arne Johansen

Arne Johansen — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:56:48 +0000

Now i can start the game, and see the videos(had to make the tex.ini file. Game did not do it by it self.. but now it crashes as soon as i try to see on things in the game.

By: Arne Johansen

Arne Johansen — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:38:13 +0000

I have tried your guide to try playing Overseer on Win xp sp3. But on my e4300, 4GB ram and 8800gt i only get : An unhandled win32 error occured in overseer.exe and it looks up. Tried disabling one core on my cpu thinking it was the same error as the hypertreading i read people had problems with. Still no luck. Guess i have to try it on one of my other computers then :/

By: Kian

Kian — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:30:41 +0000

I talked too fast.

Well after playing up to some ruins, I can tell the game still has problems. You can play it without compatibility mode, with Windows XP mode or with Windows 95 mode, either way, the game WILL crash for me, just totally randomy, which is no big issue because I save very often and the game is fast to launch.

However, I had no MIDI music and was not able to pass the snake trick at the ruins: each time, the game WILL crash after the video, no matter which configuration tweaks I use. I am now setting up a Windows 95 virtual computer using Virtual PC (had to uninstall Virtual Server though I use it a lot for work because it has no sound support).

I hop my computer will be good enough for virtual gaming… (Core 2 Duo E6600 with hardware virtualization, Gefoce 8600 GT and 2Gb RAM)

I’ll keep you informed…

By: Kian

Kian — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:16:21 +0000

Great ! The game works fine on Vista Business… had no MIDI problem yet. I just had to install the game, use the Windows 95 Compatibility with DVDExpress installed, and it all seems perfect !

Now that I finished Pandora Directive yesterday, I can get back ton Tex’s business !