Did you try the Unofficial Patch, rather than the Official one? It tends to work a lot better on newer versions of Windows (Vista and 7).

LaughingOtter Wrote:Thanks for creating a total piece of crap, Buena Vista. Hope a lot of you got fired for this.

I doubt they got fired, but some people probably lost their jobs. The game isn't screwed with forwards compatibility because the developers or the game sucked (in fact it tended to review well), it's because there was such a small install base (aka it tanked in sales) there was no financially viable way to support it after release more than a couple of years.

Incidentally, I installed it on Vista, played it in Compatibility Mode with Windows XP SP2, and ran the executable as an administrator, and it worked great.

LaughingOtter Wrote:I guess I was just frustrated, given the budget that Buena Vista probably had for this game.

Actually, the game was created by Monolith productions, who is known for F.E.A.R. and No One Lives Forever.

I was also able to install and run Tron 2.0 fine with no problems on Vista. One thing to keep in mind though: You need to launch the game at least once (for Vista/7 users, it needs to be in administrator mode) before installing any patches. This is because the patches require a file that is created once the game is launched for the first time. On Vista and 7, the file won't be able to be created unless the game is being run in administrator mode.

If you're having trouble with the installer on Vista or 7, go into the disc in Windows Explorer and right click the installer application. Go to properties > compatibility and check the run in administrator mode box. Then run the autorun application and attempt installing again.

@LaughingOtter: It's true that the version of DirectX that comes on the Tron 2.0 CDs was out of date, even then. But that applied to a lot of games released around that time. You can't hold that against Tron 2.0, because it's in no way unique when it comes to that.

Besides, the way DirectX installers are supposed to work is that if you have a newer version of DX: they see that and then do nothing. Your newer version of DX doesn't get replaced by the older one on the disc.

The requirements for the game back in the day were actually pretty mild. 500 Mhz processor, 256 MB RAM, 32 MB video card/chip with T&L. The card/chip didn't even have to be DX9 capable, DX8 would do. You just needed the DX9 software installed, which came on the disc if you didn't already have a newer version. And those specs were already out of date in 2003. I had a 2 GHz processor, 512 MB RAM, and a 128 MB video card and they were pretty commonplace at that time, if perhaps costing a bit more.

The one thing I will grant you: when the final patch was released, at first it required you to own Windows XP which was pretty new at the time. The patch was paid for, in part, by Microsoft. So it was artificially restricted to work on XP only, to try and "encourage" you to update to XP. This was a scummy move on the part of Disney/Buena Vista and Microsoft.