War in Russia and Windows XP

[IMJennifer]

Does War in Russia run okay under Windows XP?

This seems like a silly question, but I've looked all over and if Matrix lists operating systems, I've missed it.

Thanks!

[Preuss]

I have win XP, and it runs great. Though I do remember a post a long time ago about somebody having problems widdit.

[IMJennifer]

Thanks, I'll start the download then.

[Veer]

WIR does not seem to run in Windows 2000 - it runs in XP through.
Does anyone know how to get WIR to run in 2000? I get a 'locked, frozen' message everytime i try to run it.

[heiks]

Originally posted by Veer
WIR does not seem to run in Windows 2000 - it runs in XP through.
Does anyone know how to get WIR to run in 2000? I get a 'locked, frozen' message everytime i try to run it.

it runs fine on my w2k. Can't really tell if I'm doing anything differently from you. One problem might be trying to force the program to run in a window?

[Veer]

In intro image 'warrus' and the credits show, then I get an error box which pops up and says:

"The NTVDM CPU has encounttered an illegal instruction
CS:0000 IP:0077 OP:f0 37 05 03 02
Choose 'close' to terminate the application"

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There also is an ignore button but clicking on that dosn't help as the dos program is - frozen.

[heiks]

Originally posted by Veer
In intro image 'warrus' and the credits show, then I get an error box which pops up and says:

"The NTVDM CPU has encounttered an illegal instruction
CS:0000 IP:0077 OP:f0 37 05 03 02
Choose 'close' to terminate the application"

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There also is an ignore button but clicking on that dosn't help as the dos program is - frozen.

Looks like there's a problem in the nt dos virtual machine (http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/N/NTVDM.html )

Here's something which may help: http://computing.net/windows2000/wwwboa ... /5826.html

That post seems to suggest two things:
1) reinstall WiR
2) reinstall Windows (as usual ), just replaceing some files may be enough, though as usual. You may want to try the recovery (or what ever it is called in english) install (anyway the install that should replace any corrupt and/or missing system files)

this may also help:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q196453

[Veer]

Thanks a lot. I read up on some of the links and they were helpful.
Wasn't able to fix the problem however.
But that's O.K. I use Win2k only at work, so its probably a good thing I can't play WIR.
I have an XP machine at home, so can play there...

[PMCN]

I tried it again under XP and I still run into the trouble that I can not see the mouse cursor!

Anyone got an idea what might be causing this and if there is a simple fix? What is odd is that the game runs...perfectly fine and the mouse itself works...I just have no idea where the cursor is

[itsjustme0770]

I am having problems with WIR under XP. I can run it fine, but when I try and examine certain HQ units or change Air Missions I get an "Out of Memory" message in the game. Any suggestions?

Thanks much.

[sw30]

Search either here or on the PacWar forum about out of memory issues and how to solve them. All comments on Win NT apply to 2000 and XP also.

I run both PacWar and WiR fine on my work machine, of course, being at work, I have little time to play... (Really, I work at work. Honest.)

Jeff

[Possum]

Hello Itsjustme0770
You have insufficent low memory (the 1st 640K block of memory on your computer) avaliable to run the game (but only just!) See if you can move some of the drivers/background programs to high memory, eg edit the mouse driver to load high. You will only need to free up a small ammount of low memory. Best would be to shove as much as possible into high memory, as the WIR executable can ONLY use low memory. Unfortunatly I cannot advise you how to do this with XP, as I have no experience with XP at all.