98se Service Pack Glitch.

[KenOath]

Hello all, My 1st post

I legitimately own all MS OS's ever made but 98SE is still one of my

favorites & usually install service pack 1.5 on every 98se system I make for

whomever I make them for but last weekend I found a problem that prevented me

from using it.

I upgraded my sons K6-2/500 machine to a P3-866 machine with a 40 gig H/D &

512mb ram +64mb video for his birthday & also got him a copy of Tony Hawke 3

Pro Skater.

The game would'nt work however in 98se so I installed it on the second partition

as I divided the 40gig drive equally & dual booted the machine using PM8.

The second partition has XP-Pro.

I received the same error message on the XP partition as in the 98se system

which was a Visual C runtime error.

I searched google for hours & found thousands of results with the same error

message but all triggered by different apps but all being a Visual C related error.

Visual C - Error Message exactly the same on both OS's

So I reformatted the 98se partition & reinstalled but this time only installing what I

considered it needed being that it's a game machine for a 10 year old ,

{ shutdown supp / hard-drive cache supp / mdac2.8 / scripting support / jet3.5 sp3

/ no security updates & no service pack.

Now it plays the game in 98se without the Visual C runtime error message.

My question is , does the visualC runtime have to be part of the service pack & has

anyone else had errors relating to Visual C when playing games..

Oh , & the reason I use the service pack 1.5 is 1.62 stopped windows update from

working as soon as it was installed with the update sight telling me that the reason

it would'nt work was my time was incorrect, which it was'nt.

So to prove it was the service-pack 1.62 I reinstalled both times & used windows

update 1st then on rebooting used the service pack & found windows update

stopped working again resulting in the same error.

Both systems were HP vectra VE350 systems with P3-500 256ram / 4.3gig H/D

built & sold as internet machines only..

Cheers..!

KenOath.

[mitsubishi]

Hi, I had some problems with SP2 RC1 regarding msvcrt, they went away with RC2, but I think it was installation issues rather than the SP. Mostly they appeared to be page file errors, nearly always with games. I also had a chess game demo which came with all the dlls in its own folder and moaned about missing export 'ntgetversion' or something, which I fixed by deleting its msvcrt.dll (only that one).

Have you tried uSP2 RC2?

You get the error in a clean XP!? How does PM8 hide the 98 partion, does it 'true' hide it?

[KenOath]

Hi, I had some problems with SP2 RC1 regarding msvcrt, they went away with RC2, but I think it was installation issues rather than the SP. Mostly they appeared to be page file errors, nearly always with games. I also had a chess game demo which came with all the dlls in its own folder and moaned about missing export 'ntgetversion' or something, which I fixed by deleting its msvcrt.dll (only that one).

Have you tried uSP2 RC2?

You get the error in a clean XP!? How does PM8 hide the 98 partion, does it 'true' hide it?

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Hello,

from all the googling I did regarding this problem I thought msvcrt & msvcirt

were the culprits too but changing versions of them one at a time made

no difference for me so I formatted & started again..

PM8 does hide the partition within windows , just not during the time of

installation of the OS's.

& yes I reinstalled XP too, but not from my Sp2 slipstreamed CD , from my virgin

no Sp CD, which the game did work the 1st time I played it, but since rebooting I

now get the same Visual C error..

At least it works in the 98se partition , which sort of justifies the need for a dual-

booting games system.