Need help; Torment kills my computer.

[SombraTigresa]

Okay, I have Windows XP Professional. Whenever I install Torment, it works fine. I can also restart my computer fine. But, however, I can not shut down my computer and start it back up. If I do, it fails to start Windows. I have to boot it in Safe Mode and restore it to a point before I installed Torment. This is reproducable - it happens every time. I even tried installing the Patch 1.1 to Torment, but still the same thing. I understand that Torment was made for Windows 95/98, but the fact that I have Windows XP should affect how the game RUNS, not whether or not I can boot my OS. ;-;

Does anyone know what I can do? I love this game so much, I used to play it all the time when I had Windows 98. The reason I upgraded to XP is because Windows 98 started repeatedly dying. The third time I had to start over from scratch with nothing installed on my computer, I was tired of it and changed to XP. (I don't believe Torment had anything to do with crashing 98 - it wasn't installed at the time.)

My dad says my hard drive is big enough to install Win 98 and use a multiple boot system, but he says this is very difficult to do. Does anyone have any solutions besides this one?

[MikeDykeLike]

What is the state of your system update wise?

If you haven't done so, I would highly recommend going to http://www.windowsupdate.com and downloading the bizillion updates to Windows XP that have been made available since its original release, including Service Pack 2.

I would download a few maintenance programs to make sure your system isn't bloated as well:

http://www.winguides.com/regmech/ (Registry Clean-Up tool)
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/ (Spyware Removal Tool)

I have never heard of a problem like this before, which means something must be borked with your Windows XP installation.

Do you have any other issues with the Operating System at all?

[Grandpa]

Don't touch your registry, and don't install Service Pack 2 as it is still very buggy. System Restore is a nono, as it has always proven to do bizarre things to the registry without actually "restoring" anything. This is a quick way to make your system do strange things. While this may not be the problem, Torment's installation does not touch a single dll/exe/key required to shutdown on any version of Windows. Torment runs on XP without error.

1. no sys restore ever
2. update
3. check for viruses/spyware with updated tools
4. reinstall Torment

[Ares2382]

If you haveb't done this yet make sure you are running Torment in compatibility mode for Windows 98.

[Grandpa]

Also unnecessary.