SimCopter Unrecoverable Error in Window Vista
Hello,
I have a Copy of old Classic Game simcopter , Which i Though to play on my newly installed Windows vista system , but when i try to run Simcopter on windows vista , it Crash and Give me "Unrecoverable Error!" before Closing . can You Tell me how Can I Solve these Problem Thanks in advance for Your solution
Re: SimCopter Unrecoverable Error in Window Vista
Hello , Go to the application of SimCopter, right click, go to properties, go to compatibilty, select Windows 98/Windows ME (this one works best) under the Compatibility mode. You may also want to check off the box for "Run program as administrator". This will fix most of the crashes (at least it makes it playable), so enjoy!
Re: SimCopter Unrecoverable Error in Window Vista
Well I found the solution! It turns out that SimCopter needs a slower CPU to run properly (I think the code is using software loops for timing purposes - a bad idea). Well Microsoft has (or used to have) a little utility (cpugrab.exe from their Directshow SDK toolkit) that uses up a user selectable amount of the CPU which effectively slows it down for all the other running programs - i.e. SimCopter! So to run SimCopter without the annoying "unrecoverable errors", follow these steps:
- Download cpugrab
- Run cpugrab.exe and set the slider bar to 75% (or higher or lower)
- Run SimCopter
- Have fun saving Sims!
- When you finally exit Simcopter, it sometimes ends with an error message.
One thing to note is that you'll need to run two CPUGrabbers if you have a dual-core system (more for quad-core, etc.). I ran them at 99% and 85% with a 2.2 GHz Core 2 Duo, effectively making it a 330 MHz Core 2 Solo, and the game ran great.