Law & Order: Justise is Served

[VolsFan]

I was getting an error message during the install, but i copied the first disc to a shared folder and the install worked. Now, after the theme song and opening credits, the screen goes black. sound is still heard, but black screen; not even a mouse cursor. I have to terminate Virtualbox using Task Manager. Again, the video works perfectly during the opening credits. It is when it goes to the menu that the screen goes black.

I have tried mounting the iso as a virtual drive and also mounted my real cd-drive in virtualbox and using the original discs with the same result. I have Guest Additions installed, but not the extension pack. I didn't think it was needed, since I don't need usb 2.0/3.0.

I am using WinXP SP 3.

[socratis]

• Follow a "start the VM from cold-boot"/"observe error"/"shutdown the VM" cycle.
• With the VM shut down completely (not paused or saved), right-click on the VM in the VirtualBox Manager and select "Show Log".
• Save only the first "VBox.log", ZIP it and attach it to your response (see the "Upload attachment" tab below the reply form).

[VolsFan]

I forgot that I uninstalled the game. When I tried to reinstall, i got an error message that loninstall.dll is not a valid windows image and to check installation diskette, I copied the files from the disc to a shared folder, which is how I got the game installed before. I then mounted the iso inside XP using CloneCD. I have all my iso's in a separate .vdi file mounted in Virtualbox. I also mounted the host cd-drive and install the game from the actual disc. I have only one user in XP, so it is admin. I am out of ideas, so I guess I give up. All of these attempts resulted in the same dll error.

[socratis]

A couple of other things to try:

1. Try the installation from a local folder, not a shared one.
2. Make an ISO in your host, then mount that in your guest from the VM's Storage settings in VirtualBox.

[VolsFan]

I tried to copy the files from the ISO to a local folder in XP and got an error message. "Can't copy lawandorder: Can't read from source file or disk". Some of the files do copy, but not enough to do the install. I have tried copy the files from the ISO to a folder in the host. Virtualbox was not running. It copied successfully. So, the copy error appears to be related to Virtualbox.

I also mount the ISO to Virtualbox using Storage setting. Got the same dll error. I also made a new storage hard drive (.vhd) and tried copy the Files from the ISO to the drive, but got the copy error again.

Weird...I know that I was able to install this game once before, the only thing I can recall different from this setup; previous setup had a .vhd drive for XP and it was fixed. This setup uses a .vdi and it is dynamic. I do not remember if ISO drive was fixed or dynamic, but it was .vdi.

[socratis]

So, the copy error appears to be related to Virtualbox.

No.

previous setup had a .vhd drive for XP and it was fixed.

Not related I'm afraid.

I do not remember if ISO drive was fixed or dynamic, but it was .vdi.

An ISO has to be in an ISO format, independent of the extension.

[VolsFan]

I meant that I created a separate .vdi drive and I put all my ISOs in that drive. I then mount the ISO to a virtual cd-drive in XP. This method works on all my ISOs, except Law and Order. I also tried mounting the ISO in the host...No luck.

[VolsFan]

You can mark this SOLVED. I can relieve the old days again. I figured it out. There were 2 separate problems. !) The game would not install from the discs for some reason I don't know. I could not find anything on the net about it. It might be related to VM. I copied all the files from the disc to a shared folder. The key here is that folder needs read/write access or it will fail. 2) The blank screen was caused by Quicktime not being installed, which is not included on the disc. I had to go find the latest version that would run on XP. Now, the game is installed and running. I have not tried playing all the way through yet, but this is the furthest I have gotten.

I do have couple other games that had video problems; so I decided to give VMware a try. I did not expect it to make a difference, but to my surprised, it did. I even tried setting the same game options in Virtualbox that I did for VMware to see if it makes a difference. The game still had problems under Virtualbox. I am assuming the game does not like Virtualbox graphic adapter. I am switching to VMware. I did try to install L&O using the discs and iso under VMware and it failed also. I had to copy files to shared folder and install from there, like I did in Virtualbox. The game appears to have problem with VM. I am going to make an image of my system (host) soon and I may try to install in the host and see if I still get the error. Thanks for all you help. VMware seems more compatible with my system and games.