aaronden: Thought I'd crank this old game up and play with the latest Co8, which I've done in the past on this same PC back with version 7.x of Co8.

I have no issues installing the game, and the .exes look fine, but when I try to launch in various ways it just fails. No errors. I do desktop support for a living, and have tried most of the basics to include (Win7, 64-bit):

running as administrator (although I'm already a local admin)
tried various Win7 compat settings, even though these aren't generally necessary with GOG games
tried running in a lower resolution
disabled my antivirus and elevated the permissions on the install folder, then uninstalled/reinstalled
tried downloading the setup again to avoid corrupt files

Really weird, and first for me with GOG, and I own about 15 of their older titles.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Oh, and in case there was confusion, this isn't a Co8 problem, as I'm strictly trying to make vanilla GOG version run at this point.

Hickory: If you have installed the Co8 mod, you need to run the game from the Co8 front end shortcut, so you can activate the default game (or whichever you want to play).

Dreamteam67: Can't really help, since the vanilla game from GoG installed and ran fine when I did it on my Win7 machine. All I can suggest is maybe actually try installing the Co8 mod as well, since that replaces the toee.exe file with a new "debugged" one, then doing as Hickory suggests and actually running the game as administrator from the TFE-X utility and playing the game in "vanilla" mode from there.

EDIT: OK you ninja-ed my post, so forget everything I said above. Just remember that the Co8 mod replaces files with new ones, so you literally need to de-install everything and re-install from scratch if you made even a slight mistake during the Co8 install process.

Also, I remember on the Co8 troubleshooting thread, they talk about older versions of NVidia drivers being necessary to run the game.

Dreamteam67: Do you have Java installed? You need 6.0 or higher I believe to run Co8 mod as well. Shouldn't be a problem from the GoG version, but once you run the Co8 installer you need it.

What happens exactly when you run the TFE-X utility as administrator (ie. right-click on the desktop shortcut and choose "run as administrator" from the list)?