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[bearcatcatcat]

Yes, I know that this is possibly not the correct exact location on
the forum to ask this question. It's not that I'm lazy or hasty, it is that I
am overwhelmed.

I am 59 years old. I'm not very smart. I am disabled by a crippling
emotional illness. Please show patience and kindness. Thank you.

There are a lot of "solutions" to things on the internet. That is the problem.
Too much information, and not tailored to the exact situation I find myself in.

Using Windows 7 64 bit Home Premium edition.
Ancient machine, HP p6710f, limping along.






Spent what to me was a fortune of $500 on a computer through Amazon, and it died within two months, and the company isn't replying to warranty service messages. Ripped off. Can't afford to do that again.....


download is Dino Crisis 2 for PC, from MyAbandonWare.com

I have zero experience trying to do this.

With difficulty, I used Winzip to extract the download, producing BIN and CUE files.

Not knowing what to do next, I used IMGBURN to try to turn these into ISO files.

This appeared to require the burning of a physical CD, which I did.

Then I tried to launch the game. There was a small icon for doing so, but it only loads and repeats the animation before game start, never goes to the buttons that say "Start Game"

Note also, that although this is the PC version, as stated on the download site, the images I saw were VERY blurry compared to my old experience.

I never played this on PC before.
I played it on a Sony Playstation One, many years ago.
Now, although it was somewhat pixellated on rough edges, and I was viewing it on a Cathode Ray Tube televison, it was not BLURRY as it looks on this computer monitor.
I think my monitor is LCD.

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I then flailed around, utterly clueless. Deleted everything I thought related to the game. Downloaded again. Now, I'm getting a tiny box, with illustrations from the game, offering to install various things such as DirectX. I go ahead and install all the choices. Then I click "Play Game", which is an enabled clickable choice.

When I try to launch, getting error:

C:/Users/beatcat/appData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/GameExplorer/{a7b5a4a4-c2ca-4a4.../Play.Ink is not a valid Win32 application

Downloaded VirtualCloneDrive next, and it appears as clear as mud, makes no difference.

Could someone, please, for gods sake, walk me through this?