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TOPIC: Warlords 4 on windows 10
Warlords 4 on windows 10 7 years, 10 months ago #1492
Just tried to install Warlords 4 on Windows 10. It gets to a message about installing fonts and freezes. No compatibility setting seems to help- any ideas?
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Re: Warlords 4 on windows 10 7 years, 10 months ago #1493
Haven't heard of anyone with that problem before and plenty have installed on Win 10.
A couple of questions: 1) Are you installed a USA version of the CD (may be issues with non-USA/English) 2) Where are you installing it (directory wise)? I would not recommend installing in the default place (c:\program files) because War4 needs to write locally and that's frowned on in Win 7 and later. I'd recommend installing in 'My Documents' or a similar user owned folder. KGB |
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Re: Warlords 4 on windows 10 7 years, 10 months ago #1494
I assume its a USA disk, the menus are in english. (It did offer several languages on setup though).
I've tried the default directory, a directory off of 'my documents', and a directory directly off of c:. No dice. Each time it gets to 'installing fonts' and freezes. I'm glad to hear that others have had success. Maybe I will figure this out yet. |
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Re: Warlords 4 on windows 10 7 years, 10 months ago #1495
One possibility I didn't mention is that your CD could be bad. That would explain why the install hangs for you and no one else.
Any chance you can install on a non Win 10 machine to verify it's good? If you can install elsewhere you can just copy the folder to a thumb drive and transfer to your Win 10 machine. KGB |
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Re: Warlords 4 on windows 10 7 years, 10 months ago #1496
I tried on Windows Xp, and it installed, but throws a new error when I try to start it.
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Re: Warlords 4 on windows 10 7 years, 9 months ago #1497
Tried on Windows 7 also. Same error.
It says the problem is in line 569 of SageGraphics.cpp, error code D3DERR_NOTAVAILABLE (0x8876086a) Calling: Can't Create Device Is this some sort of DirectX error? |
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Re: Warlords 4 on windows 10 7 years, 9 months ago #1498
Once I got the correct drivers for directX, it worked on windows 7. Still hoping to get it working on Windows 10, but this is certainly progress.
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Re: Warlords 4 on windows 10 7 years, 7 months ago #1511
I tried to install IV on my win10 and could not get it to work either. It had been working on Win8. The CD setup from autoplay fails, no problem. I just open the cd a files and ran the setup with admin.
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Re: Warlords 4 on windows 10 7 years, 7 months ago #1512
I guess I cannot edit here, so to continue my post...
I installed onto my E drive in its own lib/folder. I tried to run it, but got fmod and Binkw32 dll's missing. I find them in windows and go to copy them into warlords folder, but they are already there? I had copied them to my desktop so I could find them to copy, so maybe the search found those version idk. So I run the warlord4 exe with admin and I get the window permission popup and let it run. Nothing happens and task manager does not show warlords. I rename the exe and copy in the one from patch 105b and it get fsound errors. Anyone have any magic response that will let me play this again? Funny I have warlords dlr working. Wish UBIsoft would sell some sort of wrapper to make this work and run at desktop res. I would pay a few dollars and I would suspect many others would. A nice job for an intern. Thank for reading this rant. |
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Re: Warlords 4 on windows 10 7 years, 7 months ago #1513
I see I can now edit, but that post was long enough, lol.
Anyway, would it be useful to apply one of the earlier patches and try it? I seem to have a vague notion that 105A/B required a prior patch. If so, what ones and in what order? IOW would I need to do all existing patches or just a particular one and then 105A or B? Thanks |
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