GDI.DLL file and 999.pal errors

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I installed Phantasmagoria 2 and it installed up to 31% then stopped with a message saying it wasn’t installed correctly so I used the uninstaller then I reinstalled it. When I tried to reinstall it, I get a window that says it can’t find the GDI.DLL file. What happened?

Also, I installed it on my other computer and when I tried to play it, it gave me the ‘internal error 999.pal’ error. Any ideas how to fix this?

both computers are XP. I tried it on my windows 98 but got completely different errors. 🙁 Any suggestions?

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(re: GDI.DLL file and 999.pal errors)

OK! I fixed this error.. I had to install a patch that would let me install the DOS ‘install.bat’…since the CD only had the Windows setup. If anyone else had this problem, let me know and I’ll gladly help! 🙂

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i have the same problem with lighthouse. it didn’t install properly, and when i uninstalled and tried to reinstall i got the gdi.dll message. what do i do to get this to play?

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Just install the DOS version of the game. Then, if you need to, run it in DOSBox.

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how do i install the dos version? and what is dosbox?

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I’ve gotten that GDI error before, when my computer was hanging during GK2 installation. I was able to get rid of it by quitting something that’s running on the task manager. I forget what it is but I’d know it if I saw it. Next time you get the error, can you do ctrl-alt-del and post everything that’s listed on the Processes tab? (Rebooting your computer also gets rid of it… or did in my case, anyway.)

I think the 999.pal error happens when you don’t have CD#1 in the drive when you launch your game. This is another problem I had with GK2. Putting CD#1 in the drive fixed it. (I was able to keep CD#1 in one drive and use the other drive for whichever CD I was up to in the game, and this worked fine.)

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