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Product:
European Air War
Vendor:
Microprose
Tested operating systems:
Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0, Windows XP
Most recent version of this submission:
European Air War
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Operating System: Windows 2000 Rating:
Submitted on 2002-02-01 12:00:00
Operating System: Windows XP Rating:
Submitted on 2004-09-01 12:00:00
Anonymous
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Keep getting error 7217 after install
Operating System: Windows 2000 Rating:
Submitted on 2005-07-01 12:00:00
RED BARON
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A while ago , I had upgraded my pc from Win 98 to the Win 2000 platform .
Wanted to try out these new add-ons for my old air sim European Air War
Installed my old EAW game ,guess what , wasn't compatible , so i made a search on the net and found the compatibility set-up description for the Win2000 APCOMPAT.exe program .
It worked great , the steps included here on the previous post work exactly as stated in the # 2 statement .
At that time i had a
1.0 Gig T-brid CPU
640 megs ram
Asus A7VPro motherboard
Asus 7100 64 megs AGP MX-400 videocard
Creative 5.1 platinum souncard
I could play games all i wanted .
Now i purchased a new system .
3.0 Gig AMD Athlon
1024 ram
Asus A8N-E 64 bit MotherBoard
Nvidia 6200 256 megs videocard
Audigy 2 creative soundcard .
I installed Windows 2000 on it .
System is very stable , installed ( without any errors ) my old EAW game , patched it to 1.2 and installed my APCOMPAT.exe program , and it won't work , gives me the old = " The Application failed to initialyse properly( 0x0000005). click on OK to terminate application . "
So my present assumption , is that since this old win98 game worked under my previous win2000 platform , with the APCOMPAT.exe program , ( the other pentium 3 ) , i figure that it is likely that it's a Videocard driver issue .
Hopefully i'll find a solution through my ongoing research .
Wanted to try out these new add-ons for my old air sim European Air War
Installed my old EAW game ,guess what , wasn't compatible , so i made a search on the net and found the compatibility set-up description for the Win2000 APCOMPAT.exe program .
It worked great , the steps included here on the previous post work exactly as stated in the # 2 statement .
At that time i had a
1.0 Gig T-brid CPU
640 megs ram
Asus A7VPro motherboard
Asus 7100 64 megs AGP MX-400 videocard
Creative 5.1 platinum souncard
I could play games all i wanted .
Now i purchased a new system .
3.0 Gig AMD Athlon
1024 ram
Asus A8N-E 64 bit MotherBoard
Nvidia 6200 256 megs videocard
Audigy 2 creative soundcard .
I installed Windows 2000 on it .
System is very stable , installed ( without any errors ) my old EAW game , patched it to 1.2 and installed my APCOMPAT.exe program , and it won't work , gives me the old = " The Application failed to initialyse properly( 0x0000005). click on OK to terminate application . "
So my present assumption , is that since this old win98 game worked under my previous win2000 platform , with the APCOMPAT.exe program , ( the other pentium 3 ) , i figure that it is likely that it's a Videocard driver issue .
Hopefully i'll find a solution through my ongoing research .
Operating System: Windows 2000 Rating:
Submitted on 2008-02-27 08:56:45
Anonymous
Post License:
GNU LGPL
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ok: "Keep getting error 7217 after install"
-that's a graphics related error. The game has failed to initialize Direct Draw surface for the main screen.
motherboard chipset: Intel 810 and 815 chips only allow 16 bit color 3D surfaces. so EAW won't work, it tries to create 3D in 8-bit color. -Need another MOBO.
Make sure you have the latest driver for your video card. NOTE- some of the very latest cards cause problems- Video cards utilizing series 6xxx chips and beyond from NVIDIA. Try drivers in the 6x.xx series?, the the 7x.xx series drivers are problematic? see full http://eaw.wikispaces.com/hardware+guide
Try reducing desktop size/resolution. Start | Settings | Control Panel | Display | Setting. Adjust Size to 640x480 or 800x600 and Color Palette to 256 color.
Try adjusting video card hardware acceleration to 'maximum'. Start | Setting | Control Panel | Display | Setting | Advanced Properties | Performance.
Run Direct X diagnostic utility, DXDIAG.EXE, in c:\Program Files\DirectX folder or subfolder.
The EAW Launchpad chaps will help you if they can! http://groups.msn.com/THEEAWLAUNCHPAD go to the 'Warroom') also
European Air War forum at SimHQ http://www.simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php
-that's a graphics related error. The game has failed to initialize Direct Draw surface for the main screen.
motherboard chipset: Intel 810 and 815 chips only allow 16 bit color 3D surfaces. so EAW won't work, it tries to create 3D in 8-bit color. -Need another MOBO.
Make sure you have the latest driver for your video card. NOTE- some of the very latest cards cause problems- Video cards utilizing series 6xxx chips and beyond from NVIDIA. Try drivers in the 6x.xx series?, the the 7x.xx series drivers are problematic? see full http://eaw.wikispaces.com/hardware+guide
Try reducing desktop size/resolution. Start | Settings | Control Panel | Display | Setting. Adjust Size to 640x480 or 800x600 and Color Palette to 256 color.
Try adjusting video card hardware acceleration to 'maximum'. Start | Setting | Control Panel | Display | Setting | Advanced Properties | Performance.
Run Direct X diagnostic utility, DXDIAG.EXE, in c:\Program Files\DirectX folder or subfolder.
The EAW Launchpad chaps will help you if they can! http://groups.msn.com/THEEAWLAUNCHPAD go to the 'Warroom') also
European Air War forum at SimHQ http://www.simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php
Operating System: Windows XP Rating:
Submitted on 2008-08-30 10:32:57
Anonymous
Post License:
GNU LGPL
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Program does not start. Show an error 162.
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