2014-09-11, 07:40 PM
It's Microsoft's fault. Their whole business model is based on forcing their products into the middle of every computing process known to man (Directx, X model format, internet explorer, C# programming language etc). Once there, they use their products as leverage to control the market. Even very early games should run flawlessly on a modern PC. Modern processors support the same command-sets that the old CPUs used. The main reason old games have problems is because Microsoft yanked support for some process the game relied on. Just like they yanked support for Direct X Retained Mode, The X model format, and now the Indio AVI codecs. [ending rant... finding happy place 
] MT, are you sure your friend is using all the files from v1.2? I seem to remember that the PROJECT.DAT file contains a sort of checksum for the project. If its data doesn't match the project, the game won't launch.