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markusariliu: I wasn't aware the company still offered support for this game, it is quite old. a link?
As others have said, I was referring to GOG, not the game. Unfortunately the original developers (shiny) are no longer a company, however if you bought the game on this site, then support is offered, and as Win 7 is a supported platform, they are required to get it working for you.

If you didn't buy it here, try buying it here, and then logging a support request :).
My first bet would be the GPU but try this, it might work but since it's radeon and perhaps a mobile GPU I don't think so.

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IronStar: Working flawlessly here, win 7 x64 Ultimate.
Try installing it outside Program Files x86. Also Administrator privileges are must, and gfx driver update usually helps. :)

Edit: wpegg meant GOG support ticket. ;)
As I said before I already updated the driver . . . Twice. And, I tried installing it outside of prog files. And I tried almost every single combination of the Compatibility settings, including running as admin.
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markusariliu: I wasn't aware the company still offered support for this game, it is quite old. a link?
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wpegg: As others have said, I was referring to GOG, not the game. Unfortunately the original developers (shiny) are no longer a company, however if you bought the game on this site, then support is offered, and as Win 7 is a supported platform, they are required to get it working for you.

If you didn't buy it here, try buying it here, and then logging a support request :).
No. This is an older copy of the game that my father had in a stack of old CD's. I found this site by searching for help with the crash.
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Nirth: My first bet would be the GPU but try this, it might work but since it's radeon and perhaps a mobile GPU I don't think so.

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I will try this but my card uses amd drivers not nvidia.
Post edited December 01, 2012 by markusariliu
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markusariliu: No. This is an older copy of the game that my father had in a stack of old CD's. I found this site by searching for help with the crash.
May I recommend buying it here? GOG's main selling point is that they modify older games to work on newer computers. That's not a guarantee it will work, but in most cases their support usually comes through with a solution.
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Nirth: My first bet would be the GPU but try this, it might work but since it's radeon and perhaps a mobile GPU I don't think so.

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tried to download the inspector but it was no longer online. I did open my amd catalyst menu though and find something similar and tried to tweak that, but it was not as in depth as the nvidia inspector.
Assuming you have installed by right clicking the setup.exe and clicked "Run as an administrator". By this I mean you should stop the auto-run install, go to Windows Explorer and find the setup.exe on the CD, right click it and click "Run as an administrator" on the resulting dialog.

Point the install to a directory outside of Program Files (I use C:\Games) and, after installing, you right clicked the game shortcut, click Properties, clicked the compatibility tab and checked "Run this program as an administrator". Also on the same tab checked "Disable visual themes", checked "Disable desktop composition" and checked "Disable display scaling on high DPI setting"

If all of the above was done my only suggestion is to install the DirectX End-User Runtimes which can be downloaded here. Installing the run-times on Win 7 has gotten a few games running for me that would not. After downloading the file, make sure you right click the runtime setup.exe and click "Run as an administrator" or you may get a partial install.

Edit: Seems some Win 7 installs are missing the files or have a partial install of the run-time files for some reason.
Post edited December 01, 2012 by Stuff