That is Longbow 1 or Longbow 1 Gold. I have'nt heard of any success with LB1 and Win2000/XP.
This thread is for Longbow 2.
Thats easy
*Install the game.
*Set EXE-compatibility to win98/95.
*Copy DegeVoodoo's files into the LB2 install-dir.
*Disable Pagefile.
*Reboot and run the game.

If game crash/freeze on mission debrief:
Add this to CA.ini
[Backdoors]
HEAP_PERCENT=0

Might aswell add that CA-tweak from the beginning. There is no harm in using it even if you dont need it.

Thanks for your reply.

I did the setup as your post suggested and I still get the error box. Oh well...

Update:

I got the game running!

The only thing is that the game pixelates real badly at start and when I press the escape key to get it to go to the menu it clears up.

The second major glitch is that the game crashes about a minute or 2 when I'm about the start a mission. Any solutions?

Thanks for the help guys.

Can you tell us what kind of crash you experience and exactly when it happens?
Your computer specs and the method you used to get LB2 running would be nice too.

Since this is a LongBow 2 thread I deleted the game and am installing version 2. I'll post how it goes. Thanks for the help gentleman.

I'm playing the game!

I have a couple questions though:

I don't seem to be playing the game at high resolutions. It looks like I'm playing in 16 bit more. What can I do to correct or verify this?

Also, I have a wingman extreme 3d joystick whose hat does not toggle displays. Any ideas why?

Thanks! Guys. I'm having a blast with the game.

Are you using the dgVoodoo wrapper explained in the first post in this thread?

Tnanks Shadow, I got it resolved. The graphics look great.

The other more pressing problem I'm having is that I cannot play any other missions other than the default NTC Ford Ord mission, The others crash the program all the time. What gives?

Tried setting LB2.exe to Win98 compatibility mode?
Scratchy discs?

I have newly installed using the instructions at Speichts along with the dgVoodoo 1.50 wrapper and found some great success. However, while in combat missions, not training flights, whenever I open the options menu with Alt-O, call the Mission Planner screen with Alt-N, or use the lookdown screen, the screen breaks up into four "blocks" or quadrants. The text or display is sized as normal, but the blocks overlap one another so they are quite useless. Again, this does not occur in training flights and the other screens (base, mission planning, etc) are unaffected.

I seem to recall, in my attempts to get the program to work under WinXP Pro, having adjusted the resolution in my CA.ini file from 640x480 to 1280 x 1024 and I don't know if I ever went back once I got it working using the 366MB RAM cap and dgVoodoo wrapper.

Does this error sound familiar and does my having altered CA.ini sound like the likely culprit? Sadly, I am at work and unable to apply the fix just yet and it only just occured to me that I may not have restored my CA.ini file!

Thanks in advance all,

SGT Impaler