Rollercoaster Tycoon 3-Demo does not work on Win98 ?

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I installed the Rct3-Demo, and
during installation I got the error-message

"the windows media format 9 service sdk
can only be installed on win98 se, win xp...."

and I think the media-sdk is only used for videos in the game (which are not
important for me)


When I start the demo, there appears an error-message
"the application stopped, because of an invalid action ..."

The readme says, that rct3 runs on all win98-versions.

Did anyone succeed to start the demo on win98 first edition?

My system:
Win98 First Edition
Geforce 2
Directx 9.c
Celeron 800
256 mb ram


thanks for hints!

 

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"Norbert Roth" <surfyxx@crosswinds.net> wrote in message
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>I installed the Rct3-Demo, and
> during installation I got the error-message
>
> "the windows media format 9 service sdk
> can only be installed on win98 se, win xp...."
>
> and I think the media-sdk is only used for videos in the game (which are
> not
> important for me)
>
>
> When I start the demo, there appears an error-message
> "the application stopped, because of an invalid action ..."
>
> The readme says, that rct3 runs on all win98-versions.
>
> Did anyone succeed to start the demo on win98 first edition?
>

Install Windows Media Player 9 from Microsoft's site.
The video is important in that a video plays in the menu screen.

 

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"Tempora" <tempora@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> "Norbert Roth" <surfyxx@crosswinds.net> wrote in message
> news:2uebofF2afottU1@uni-berlin.de...
>>I installed the Rct3-Demo, and
>> during installation I got the error-message
>>
>> "the windows media format 9 service sdk
>> can only be installed on win98 se, win xp...."
>>
>> and I think the media-sdk is only used for videos in the game (which are
>> not
>> important for me)
>>
>>
>> When I start the demo, there appears an error-message
>> "the application stopped, because of an invalid action ..."
>>
>> The readme says, that rct3 runs on all win98-versions.
>>
>> Did anyone succeed to start the demo on win98 first edition?
>>
>
> Install Windows Media Player 9 from Microsoft's site.
> The video is important in that a video plays in the menu screen.
Or upgrade to 98se. You can probably get that for next to nothing on Ebay,
or perhaps a friends discarded copy?