Vista - I REALLY WANT TO PLAY "Dust: A tale of the Wired West" ON VISTA BUT I CAN'T!!!

So yeah I have this old 1995 Cyberflix game called "Dust: A tale of the Wired West" and it's like my favorite game of all time! On Vista it'll install just fine (most of the time) but it won't play!

I tried doing all sorts of things with the Compatibility tab of the properties, but nothing works. All it does is like start up, but never load. It just freezes.

And occasionally, ONLY OCCASIONALLY, it'll start up completely and everything works fine, but the mouse will only move around in the upper left quarter of the screen. And where ever I click, it thinks I'm clicking somewhere else.

Please, I desperately need your help in playing this game! I love this game! Please help me!

Thanks for any help

Give this site a look... DOSBox, a x86 emulator with DOS

Others suggest ScummVM (do a google search for it)


Some of the old games need DOS, others Directx 9 installed

This may be nothing since you said, from time to time you are able to play it. All I can suggest is to update your Video, Audio & Monitor drivers if they are not up to date.

Yeah I was able to play it from time to time, but not very far

This game isn't a DOS game and plus I tried DOSBox already

The ScummVM thing didn't recognize it or something.

I'll try downloading Directx 9

Thanks for the tips, though

I created an account especially to answer this question.

All you have to do is to install a program called: "Virtual PC" which you can download from the windows support website. I'm running Dust on a Vista 64bit!

After downloading it, you can create a virtual drive and install any OS you want. The game works fine on Windows XP if you have the latest DirectX.

I hope this will help and bro you must have a great taste of games of you're still into Dust in 2009!

Hey, I recently download Virtual PC 2007 but I am not very familiar at all with the program. Can you tell me the exact steps to getting Dust running with it.

same me

my favorite game is dust.. i play it when i just 9 years in Mac

now .. i can open it in windows with the programe " power iso"

search in google

"sorry if my language is not good "

Thank you very much!

I don't know when I'll be able to get something to install an OS, but still thank you.

I'm still accepting any other solutions!!!

Hey Jeremy, I've noticed your posts all around the web, so I thought I'd give you a REAL fix.
After you install the game, ignore the game directory. Go into your computer folder and right click on the cd drive with the Dust CD/ISO. Select EXPLORE. In the drive right click on DUST application. Select PROPERTIES. In Compatibility choose RUN AS ADMIN, RUN in 256 COLORS and also check the resolution setting in order to see all dialog options.

Now double click on the DUST app in the cd/iso to run the game. IMPORTANT: DO NOT close the CD/ISO folder in windows explorer...this will cause a DF error.

Hope it works for you, buddy. I'm having a blast with these whores upstairs.

Thanks for the solution, but it did not work. I'm still having the exact same problems.

Thanks anyway, though!



Still accepting solutions like always!

I have a slightly different problem. I got Dust to run - I set the compatibility mode for the df.exe file. It started and ran just fine, but then I decided to save the game. Bad things happened. Basically, an Explorer window to the game directory opened. However, there was no way to select a directory or anything. And the game itself exited, so I couldn't return. This is repeatable. I suspect that the game tries to create a "save" directory, and can't do it under Vista. It might work if the directory already existed, but I don't know what to name it. Any suggestions?

Thanks