X2 disk not accepted with Win 8.1

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X2 disk not accepted with Win 8.1

Post by Xcentric » Tue, 14. Jun 16, 22:10

"The wizard was interrupted before X2 - The Threat could be completely installed.

Your system has not been modified. To complete installation at another time, Please run the wizard again.

Clic Finish to exit the wizard"

Could anybody help me on this? Thank you in advance
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Post by X2-Illuminatus » Wed, 15. Jun 16, 10:48

A manual installation (by copying the files from the disks to your harddrive) of the old disk based games is mandatory since Windows Vista. (Only exception to this are bundles like the X-Superbox.) This sticky post at the top of the forum explains how to do that.
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