Well, has anyone managed to get this to work in Windows 7? I've tried it on three different Windows 7 boxes and I can't figure it out. I realize that it's not officially compatible with Windows 7 per the game's profile, but usually someone is able to hammer out a solution. Has anyone figured it out?

I mean, it works fine under XP you'd think it wouldn't be too hard to get it running on W7...but apparently it is. :(

That's weird, because it works fine in Windows 7 for most people (well at least as often as for XP and Vista :P). What kind of troubles are you experiencing? The universal problem with Windows 7 is the psychedelic colors in the menus. However, if it is the color distortion of the menus, there are two different easy fixes (which essentially do the same thing by different means)! You have to shut down Windows explorer (I think it is Windows 7's desktop manager that causes the problems).

1. Stanski57 showed me a neat trick where if you right click on the desktop and then leave the window open or minimize it, the colors in RB3D will be fine when you start it up.

2. Wailwulf gave a more permanent solution to the problem in the form of creating a batch file to start the game:

taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe
start /w Baron.exe
pause
start explorer.exe

If there are other problems, please delineate and I or one of the other forumers will try to help.

In what way dies it not work?

RB3D seems to have some trouble with some 64bit systems.

For me, It works fine in Win7 after a few work arounds are put into place. But I am aware of it just not working at all.

There is:

#1 RB3D just not starting. (No fixes available that I know of)

#2 RB3D crashes just after the intro movie is played, never getting to the game menu (Fix available that seems to work 80% of the time)

#3 Menu is has major color corruption and is unreadable (Fix available)

#4 RB3D crashes after flying mission (caused by some 3rd party mods. Fixable).

Interesting reply. Yes, now that mentioned it, each of the computers I tried it on are running 64-bit Windows 7. I wonder if that's the problem? It's simply not starting; ie, crashing to the desktop as soon as I launch the application.

I have a 32-bit Windows 7 laptop I'll try it on when I get a chance and I'll let you know.

Well, it sort of works on my laptop. I have to run it in windowed mode or it crashes after the intro movie, but other than that it's mostly playable. There is a framerate issue that I wish would go away. At least I can play it now!

Thanks. :)

Congrats!

The framerate issue is probably due to setspeed.exe slowing the game down (necessary on a lot of computers) - try fiddling with that, put it higher and see if the framerate improves.

Hello, I am having a problem with RB3 crashing on my Win7 64b machine, it crashes right after the movie intro, I read in this post that Wailwulf said there is a fix available that works 80% of the time, I really like this game, and I would be very grateful for any assistance.

Try to run the game in window by changing the shortcut's value to:
[ "C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG.com\Red Baron Pack\Red Baron 3D\Baron.exe" -window ]

The important part is the "(space) -window"

Then you can add a Glide Wrapper to get thew enhanced, Full Screen, Glide Graphics. Will have to goto preferences and set the game to Glide every time. But:

If the game runs properly, you can then probably remove the " -window" from the short cut and the game will run fine, but your menus will always be Windowed.

Thank-You Wailwulf, the -window did the trick, I am now playing with the Glide Wrapper to get a Full Screen.

I set the shorcut to run the batch file:

taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe
start /w Baron.exe -window
pause
start explorer.exe

And I edited the batch file to include the -windows attribute and it works.
Tally ho!

Excellent to hear.

What part doesn't work?

Only one I can think of is that it crashes when you end the mission. If that is the case, not sure that is fixable.

FCJ uses Promised Land 1 (PL1) graphics for objects and Terrain. For some reason, PL1 crashes the game when exiting when using Win7. The normal fix is to use a different terrain graphics mod.

The problem for FCJ being fixed is how PL1 was put together by it's creator, the files are spread a cross various vol files, which means to remove PL1 you need to remove many, and that just may mess up FCJ as one of the vol files is also used for plane skins, sounds and other data.

Is there any way to get the in-flight game/mode working with glide mode while being windowed?

[edit] On Windows 7 64 bit, I guess I should mention.