Will this old PC game work?

[sebascrub]

I recently unearthed an old PC game (from 2000) that was part of a series of games that I basically spent my childhood playing. The game is PC Futbol 2000 Clausura, if anyone recognizes it, and it is basically a football manager program, specifically for Argentine football. Anyway, I got nostalgic and wondered if I could play this on my MacBook under either BootCamp or Parallels/VMWare.

Here are the requirements for the game:
Windows 95/98
Pentium 150 MhZ
32 Mb RAM
GFX card compatible with DirectX 7

Can I run this under Win XP? Do I need to install anything in particular that wouldn't come with the XP install, because this game is so old?

Thanks!

[Tastannin]

Best bet is to just go ahead and install it under a virtualized XP install. (Parallels/VMware/Virtual Box) See what happens.

[sebascrub]

OK, so I tried to install it under Windows XP SP3, running in Parallels 4.0. The loading screen before the wizard seems to work, loading up the progress bar up to 100%, but then, when it would normally go to the installation wizard, the installer crashes. Any ideas?

[Schtumple]

Try running the installer in compatibility mode for windows 95/98? I managed to get my original copy of Theme Hospital to happily install on my friends Vista laptop, she's even borrowed the disc over the holidays :p

[sebascrub]

Compatibility mode? How would I go about doing that?

[akm3]

That is a Windows feature to get windows to run older programs as if they were under older versions of Windows.

I believe you right click on the install.exe and go to properties, and somewhere in there you can change the compatibility settings to Win98 or so.

This might help!

-Allen