gencreeper Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 (edited) Has anyone else managed to get steam working under Windows 2000 and if so does anyone know specifically what makes it work? I have gotten steam working on two different installs but it appears to be very hit and miss whether it will work or not. Most of the time it will download install and once installed if you try to run it it will display "verifying installation" and then close no error message just close i install Windows 2000 as follows: 1. Install 2ksp4 from CD 2. Install all drivers 3. Install unofficial service pack 5 (note: I skip update rollup 1 because I have a dual core processor and update rollup 1 seems to break it only being able to see 1 core) 4. Install IE6 sp1 roots update and Windows update agent 5. Install all remaining updates from Windows update including directx and media player 9 6. Install the ie6 cumulative security update that BWCs extended kernel requires and then install extended kernel and extended core in that order Note: I don't really need steam on this computer for any practical purpose but due to the seemingly random nature of steam not working I'm just curious as to what exactly will make it work every time. this was done on physical hardware and always on the same machine (it's just a spare laptop not a main computer) Edited February 12, 2017 by gencreeper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agrecascino Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 It works, all I have installed is BWC's kernel. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gencreeper Posted February 14, 2017 Author Share Posted February 14, 2017 What version and settings might I ask? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agrecascino Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 On 2/14/2017 at 3:38 AM, gencreeper said: What version and settings might I ask? v26, default settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreasmir Posted October 21, 2017 Share Posted October 21, 2017 Doesn't work, Steam keeps closing with no error message. I have installed latest version of BWC Kernel. EA Origin works fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomasz86 Posted November 12, 2017 Share Posted November 12, 2017 On 2/12/2017 at 8:27 PM, gencreeper said: 3. Install unofficial service pack 5 (note: I skip update rollup 1 because I have a dual core processor and update rollup 1 seems to break it only being able to see 1 core) Just for the record, technically you are not skipping the Update Rollup 1 because the rollup is already integrated in the USP 5. Update Rollup 1 basically provides a baseline for all the updates released later. It should not cause any such issues in normal circumstances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bottis86 Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 Have a Pentium4 desktop running win2k with updates and blackwingcats extended kernel. Ran Steam fine earlier this year, but now it stops with no error message. Got a PentiumM laptop and installed Win2k today with all updates and the most recent kernel from bwc, now I get an error while trying to install steam: "SteamSetup.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program." Anyeone got steam working on Win2k lately? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slayer1994 Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 On 12/6/2017 at 7:45 PM, bottis86 said: Have a Pentium4 desktop running win2k with updates and blackwingcats extended kernel. Ran Steam fine earlier this year, but now it stops with no error message. Got a PentiumM laptop and installed Win2k today with all updates and the most recent kernel from bwc, now I get an error while trying to install steam: "SteamSetup.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program." Anyeone got steam working on Win2k lately? have you resolved? I can't connect to it too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreasmir Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 Still can't get it work. Tryed older versions of Steam (from 2014-2016-2017), same thing, steam.exe starts, then closes in 1-2 seconds. Maybe something with new version of BWC Kernel? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slayer1994 Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 On 6/18/2018 at 10:43 AM, Andreasmir said: Still can't get it work. Tryed older versions of Steam (from 2014-2016-2017), same thing, steam.exe starts, then closes in 1-2 seconds. Maybe something with new version of BWC Kernel? I don't know, maybe it is too new... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreasmir Posted July 9, 2018 Share Posted July 9, 2018 On 6/21/2018 at 6:07 PM, slayer1994 said: I don't know, maybe it is too new... But it is based on Chrome 49. With BWC Kernel it should work. And it was working fine back in 2016. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slayer1994 Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 On 7/9/2018 at 9:58 PM, Andreasmir said: But it is based on Chrome 49. With BWC Kernel it should work. And it was working fine back in 2016. I will try to do a clean install and see if it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreasmir Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 On 7/11/2018 at 12:30 PM, slayer1994 said: I will try to do a clean install and see if it works. Clean Win2k didn't support Steam since 2011. Steam was working fine in 2016 with Extended Kernel only. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slayer1994 Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 I tried one more time with kernelex and yes it seems not to work anymore... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bottis86 Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 On 6/7/2018 at 9:22 PM, slayer1994 said: have you resolved? I can't connect to it too Nope, it seems that Steam for Win2k is dead... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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