hmm,......okay, this might sound weird, but what version of DirectX are you installing? I got that error message 20 tiems before, and each time, i used to install DirectX 8.1 and reboot my computer, and VGS would run as normal. Believe me, its nothing to do with the VGS patch, It just lets WinXp treat VGS as a win32 file.
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