Sid Meiers Pirates!


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    Win 7 x 64 laptop
       #1

    Sid Meiers Pirates!


    There are games that will not lie down and die, the remake of the 1987 classic Pirates, to my mind, is one of them. I have it working perfectly on Win 8, but it reports that dll - msvcp71.dll - is missing on my Win 7 x 64 laptop. Why? I found and installed the dll into win 7 but still no joy. I even tried the cmd command regsvr32 (dll name) with no joy.

    So why Win 8 x 32 and not Win 7 x 64???
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    7x64 ultimate / 7x64 pro / Some linux x64 distro
       #2

    Because there's no 16bits support on x64 systems if i'm right, while you do have 16 bits support on x32 systems
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  3. Posts : 3
    Win 7 x 64 laptop
    Thread Starter
       #3

    oh, ah well, never mind. Thanks for the info, appreciated
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  4. Posts : 30
    7x64 ultimate / 7x64 pro / Some linux x64 distro
       #4

    Hello again,

    You may want to try DOSbox for your game on x64 systems, if it doesn't work for your game, you can make a virtual machine running XP since XP run most of the old games.

    If you have Windows 7 Ultimate x64, Microsoft have an "easy" solution for you to run XP on a virtual machine, a guide is avaliable on this website to set up the virtual machine.

    If your problem is solved, i think you can add the "Solved" prefix to the thread by editing the first post.

    Edit : The "mark as solved" is a link at the top of the thread
    Last edited by Magissia; 19 Mar 2013 at 11:24.
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  5. Posts : 3
    Win 7 x 64 laptop
    Thread Starter
       #5

    there is a win 7 fix for this, and the game is one of those listed, which I downloaded but it will not run, could be corrupt so will try later
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