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First post, by s997863

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Trying to play Battlezone (the original 1998 CD version) on Win7. Clicking on bzone.exe instantly brings up the crash window "bzone.exe has stopped working". Details:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: bzone.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 35c662a6
Fault Module Name: StackHash_8e18
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000
Exception Code: c000041d
Exception Offset: 76a4ba71
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 8e18
Additional Information 2: 8e181be08bc18abda591bb30d882b1b6
Additional Information 3: 321f
Additional Information 4: 321fa5248f4cb649591e999ffe0165cb

Same happens after patching to 1.4, putting dgVoodoo2 files in the dir, putting in an older dsound.dll, and setting compatibility modes for the exe file. My PC is an i5 3rd gen, and this happens with both a GeForce 960 & the internal Intel HD graphics.
Does anyone have a solution for this? I want to play the original game only. The 1.5 patch and 98Redux versions made the enemy AI too aggressive and not fun anymore.

Reply 1 of 2, by Matchstick

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Use the unoffical 1.5 patch. This is the only solution. As it never ran under windows 7 otherwise.
Also you can adjust the difficulty level.
Or run 98se or XP.

Reply 2 of 2, by BEEN_Nath_58

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Rename the EXE and let me know if it works

previously known as Discrete_BOB_058