A&A maps

@huntdax:

I have the 15 yr old PC game by Hasbro Interactive.  I am having trouble with the graphics to play the game.  The game is made for WIN95/98 while my PC runs Win7.  What do I need to do to change in my settings for this to work.  Much appreciated.

Right click on the EXE file for the program (AandA.exe?)… in Win7 you’ll get options to enable windows compatibility mode, and several toggle switches.  Experiment a bit till you get something that works, you can use Win95 mode, Win98 mode, etc, etc… there’s also some other options, I forget what they are, but I had a very old Win95 game called Pacific General that just would not run under Win7 until I set it to Win95 mode and checked all the boxes, finally it ran as it should run in Win7 just like old Win95 days.

Give it a try.

AA41 all the way or if you have an old copy of classic try that.

Imperious Leader is right.  The rules of A&A have evolved over the years, but each game was designed to work with the rules that existed at the time.  You can always experiment with using the new rules on older games, but the result may not be balanced properly.

Damn Hasbro!  That’s exactly why I’m confused.  Like you, I’ve spent a lot of time playing AI rather than RI…  :-D
That’s why I’m happy to see my laptop coming in the next week or so; no more playing the predictable AI.

I think you need to uninstall Direct X 9.0 and get 8.0

Thats to bad I live in near Pensicola, Florida. It gets to hot here to play in the summer. :( So the winter is my only time to play it suks.

While you’re busy downloading, you can also score an A&A CD game via Ebay for under $10, plus maybe $4 shipping.

Sey GeZe, is there any way to get dogs of war that I could play on the mac?

Or is it totally hopeless to play any of these online versions in macland – and should I take my own advice, hit Ebay and score a used Dell for a song?

I don’t have the CD-ROM, but from a technical standpoint, if it’s not working at all, just un-install it… then re-install it.

[ This Message was edited by: BubbleyMoose on 2002-05-15 10:54 ]