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turbo6:
I loaded Tiny XP Beast Edition on one of my PC's, it seems to work great. One problem I found was when I tried playing House of The Dead (HOTD 1 not 2 or 3). when I start the game all I get is a black screen and nothing happens... If I hit the spacebar it returns to the desktop. Not sure why House of the Dead won't run??? Maybe something it needs to run is removed from this version of XP??? Anyone have any ideas? :dunno Thanks.
spystyle:
It truly is a stripped version of XP, if the exact same software combination works on any other operating system then Tiny must be missing something critical to it.
The only way to test it is with 2 different operating systems, if the error comes up on 98se (for example) it's the software, if it doesn't it's the OS.
Cheers,
Craig
turbo6:
Thanks for the reply. I do believe it is the stripped down version missing something... using the same PC with full version of XP seems to run the game (HOTD) just fine. Was hoping someone might know what to reinstall to TinyXP to get this working. I guess I'll try making a stripped down version of XP using NLite and see what I come up with...
theCoder:
On my first cab, I got the XP boot time from a minute & 15 seconds down to 35 seconds. Somewhere in this forum was a link to a site (sorry, don't remember where) that gave a bunch of tips on speeding up the XP boot. No special code to load, just a bunch of settings to turn off and/or tweek. No driver problems at all. Search here for boot, speed, system.ini, etc. You may also find it faster searching Google. Good luck.
NickG:
@ TheNasty
If your hardware supports hibernation (the sort of completely powered-off version of system standby) You may be able to power it off and on a few seconds faster than completely rebooting every time. You should only have to reboot when you are making changes to the system. The time it takes to resume from hibernation depends on the amount of data you have in RAM, because without tweaks, most all of the RAM is written to the hard disk before you power down... and reloaded from the hard disk to the ram when you power up.
BTW, most ACPI 1.1 compliant computers can be configured in windows to hibernate when you press the power button instead of turning off.
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