When I run some applications in my emulated windows for workgroups system; I recieve an error message which says something about a truetype font and then a message which says a general protection fault happened in GDI.exe. Thanks in advance.

Running software in Emulation quite often will lead to strange behaviour, therefore as this forum is for Windows 3.x, I would suggest you post in the W2K Forum Virtual PC 2004 is after all software written for later versions of Windows.

This is a quote from an article "GDI is the graphic interface that windows uses, so yes, you probably need to reinstall Windows" Also see: http://www.computerguru.net/tech/doswin1b.htm But at the end of the day you are still running W2K NOT W3.x !

The OS you run VPC under is entirely irellevant to the os inside of it as the emulated OS functions entirely independantly , so i would think this is as good a forum as any..(unless VPC itself crashed, of course, then it would be a host OS question). GDI errors happen in Win3x a lot, it's just one of those things, often an incompatibility between the video card/driver and w31..this happens in particular with s3 cards (i can attest to that one myself!)..and i know VPC used to emluate the S3 virge (at least it does in 4x)..unfortunately you can't choose which video card it emulates, so if it still uses the s3 , you're just going to have to be careful which programs you run on wfw31 in VPC (i can't run mask98 on my WfW31 VPC emulation, for instance, as i get those gdi.exe errors ). Re: fonts..some fonts can crash this combination too..you just need to de-install the problem ones... HTH

Oops..think it's the s3 trio, not s3 virge , as i said,,problem's still the same, however..

Thanks for the replies. It must be the s3 drivers which are the problem as i have them installed.