Running the game on XP

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Hey, I recently felt like playing this game again after so many years. Today I managed to install it on my computer, but now whenever I run it, the sound doesn't work. It also gives me warnings about Safe Mode and that my computer does not have certified Direct X drivers.

Has anyone else played this game on an XP computer and gotten it to work? If so, do you know what I may be doing wrong?

All I did was switch the comatibility of the programs to run as though it was Windows 98 because it wouldn't run at all without doing that.

Or should I just go and install it on my other computer which is Windows 2000?
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I run it perfectly fine on Windows XP Professional.
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I've got Home Edition. It runs ok on my other computer with Windows 2000. The only thing I could think of was that I didn't install Direct X 6.0. I clicked no because I didn't want it to replace the version of Direct X which I have now. (It's happened in the past.) Other than that, I'm stumped.
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Make sure you have have Direct X 9.0c and Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 installed. Update your video card drivers if needed.

Install the latest patch: http://www.fileplanet.com/dl.aspx?/3dactio...s/PatchFull.zip (~23mb)
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That problem generally relates to the file, A3D.DLL. Goto TresCom and look
under trespasser questions. You can either manually rename or remove it or
allow atx (exe_addon) to handle the problem for you.

*There may be individual cases where this fix may not work, though I haven't
heard of it failing as of yet --
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I always turned off A3D. It causes a lot of problems with other games like Drakan. Drakan was originally made for Windows 95/98... so everytime I would launch the game using A3D it would crash. I never would have thought audio would be such a bitch.
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