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Battlezone won't run on Win7

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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 3, 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 3, by BEEN_Nath_58

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Rename the EXE and let me know if it works

previously known as Discrete_BOB_058

Reply 3 of 3, by s997863

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BEEN_Nath_58 wrote on Yesterday, 03:49:

Rename the EXE and let me know if it works

It got past that instant crash, but then pops up a new error saying not enough memory. This was also easily fixed by setting compatibility to XP SP3. Then I was in the game menu screens. The game crashed to desktop when trying to enter any mission. The next time I tried to start it, it reported that the game hadn't shut down properly. This allowed me to choose software mode in a small selection box. Now I could enter missions! The colors were weird, so I went to the desktop and left the Windows 'screen resolution' menu open and went back into the game (this fixes the issue with 256 color games). The game ALMOST looks fine now (the tank bullets show a flat purple spot in the cockpit view). The speed is too fast and this was also fixed by leaving Bandicam running with a 60fps limit. I'll need to test it further. I tried several dgvoodoo2 files in the folder but none could get the hardware mode working. Thanks very much! How did you get the idea to rename the exe??

As for 1.5, IIRC the difficulty changes nothing noticable. The enemy is so aggressive that the first mission you have to group your weapons (cannon & machine gun) to destroy that first Russian scout that's dead-set on attacking your scavanger now. In the original game, the scout would retreat and then shift its focus onto you once you attacked it.

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