Has anyone managed to get this working on Windows 7? I've tried all maner of compatiblity modes and what have you but I've had no luck.

I don't have WoT, but it's an Unreal Engine 1 game, so it should be reasonably easy to make it work. What is the specific problem you are having?

To test it out, I have just now installed Wheel of Time on my machine (win 7 home). I also played through the tutorial, so it is definitely working.

I didn't do anything special or use any compatibility modes.

I hope you find a way to make it work :)

I have played it in Win7/64bit (on my work laptop). Otherwise it seems to run great, except for the darn Quicktime videos. I don't recall if I let the game install some outdated Quicktime, but at least the game simply skipped all the video parts (the intro, the in-between levels videos that tell you more of the story etc.).

I tried to fix it by installing the latest "Quicktime" ie. iTunes. After that the videos showed all right... at a rate of maybe 0.5 FPS or so, ie. the videos looked like a slideshow (the audio is fine). But if you opened the video files from the iTunes player, then they played fine. Odd.

So in case you can't get the videos to work like I didn't, I guess one option is to play the game, and watch the videos with your favorite media player whenever you finish a level etc. EDIT: Well ok, apparently it doesn't work at all for you...

As a matter of fact, maybe I'll try installing it again, in case it magically works on this machine. Or maybe I'll just finish it on one of my XP or Wn98SE PCs where the videos play fine. Do you see the video parts too? Did you let the game install the ancient Quicktime drivers etc.?

Thanks for the replies.

Well, here's the problem. I can get to the start-up screen where you choose D3D or OGL or whatever. Then I can select next a few times and after that the screen goes black and flashes to the desktop a few times and then ... "wot.exe has stopped working".

Sigh

I'll dig out my CDs later on today and see if I can get it working here too. The problem you describe sounds like something I've seen with Fable TLC. Do you have anything like WindowBlinds running?

I looked in my processes and Windowsbinds is not there, but I don't even know what it is :(

It's a skinning application. Do you use anything similar that changes the appearance of Windows?

The last time I played that game, the video card that I had at the time literally caught on fire.
I have no clue whether it was related to the game or not.

I installed the game on Win7 a month ago and fought it for 2 hours to get it running. :) There is a patch somewhere on the net for the newer graphics cards (mine is ATI Radeon HD 5670, by the way), can't recall where. This is how it worked for me: start it in safe mode, disable only 3D sound. The game starts in low resolution in window mode, but you can change it, and then it runs fine. AND: start the game as administrator. I think I set the graphics mode on D3D.

No I don't use anything to change the appearance. I have only essential windows processes in the background (and Norton internet security and Samsung recovery solution 5). So, as I sit here with just Firefox and WMP open, I am consuming 1-4% of CPU and 27% of memory.

I managed it! I turned on DEP and it worked even without administrator rights or any compatibility settings! The strange thing is that it didn't recognise any of my old saves. So I started a new game and saved once to let it recreate a new save folder, and then deleted that save abd put my old save from the same slot in and it worked!. I then started a new game and saved in the other slots and then deleted them too and put my old saves in and they worked too. The only thing is that their names were the same as the new game saves, so I simply loaded each one in and saved it in the same slot and now they are all named correctly.

Thanks for the help everybody

So do you see the intro video, between-levels videos etc. too? Did the game install Quicktime for you?

Hm, I tried to run it a few months back, but I had no luck since the game absolutely refused to even start.

I would try Compatability settings,Turn off desktop composition and visual themes (AERO) and lower the resolution and perhaps in Options try a few lower settings to start and then if it works ... try turning things back up until you run into a problem again.