Folks, you can fool around with the OS's compatibility settings, sound acceleration, DDRAW wrappers till your heart fails. But there is absolutely-definitely-categorically only ONE way to get VOTBA to run altogether stable with XP and up—and that requires Microsoft's cute little software called: application compatibility toolkit

I play it in Virtual PC 2007 running Windows 98.

RedRobot wrote:

Folks, you can fool around with the OS's compatibility settings, sound acceleration, DDRAW wrappers till your heart fails. But there is absolutely-definitely-categorically only ONE way to get VOTBA to run altogether stable with XP and up—and that requires Microsoft's cute little software called: application compatibility toolkit

... and what ACT "fixes" should be applied to get this game running?
not a good start for your first post.

aqrit wrote:

RedRobot wrote:

Folks, you can fool around with the OS's compatibility settings, sound acceleration, DDRAW wrappers till your heart fails. But there is absolutely-definitely-categorically only ONE way to get VOTBA to run altogether stable with XP and up—and that requires Microsoft's cute little software called: application compatibility toolkit

... and what ACT "fixes" should be applied to get this game running?
not a good start for your first post.

Uhm, broadly speaking, I can give it you in a nutshell: it's a Windows 95 era game—use 'Win 95 compatibility mode' in ACT.

SKARDAVNELNATE wrote:

I play it in Virtual PC 2007 running Windows 98.

Without the sound cutting out? It tends to happen when switching quickly between squad members with the keyboard short-cut.

does anyone have an iso of this game to share? I used to play the 3do version and just thought about playing this game again after so many years. Would love to get my hands on it. Thanks. My email is --

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