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Posted March 13, 2011
this is probably a noob question but i cant get might and magic 7 to launch installation was fine, but the game wont launch, no error messages or anything the mouse goes into load cursor for about 2 seconds then nothing.
Any help woould be greatly appreciated

spec is vista
Post edited March 13, 2011 by jaredholden
Posted March 13, 2011
Any Ideas?
Posted March 13, 2011
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jaredholden: Any Ideas?
Sadly I don't ... was looking for the answer myself - MM7 seems to launch to the main menu and then dies. I can launch Zork, etc without issue so the DOSBox side seems fine, and I regularly run other games on this Core i7 Win7-64 laptop ... no clues.

Update: Of course, immediately after doing this I re-did compatibility mode for WinXP and now it worked great ...
Post edited March 13, 2011 by txa1265
Posted March 13, 2011
If setting the game to XP compatibility does not work, try the unofficial patch at http://sites.google.com/site/sergroj/mm/
Posted March 13, 2011
thanks i will try that now been pecking my head for about 4 hours this.
Posted March 13, 2011
tried these suggestions still not working this is grim indeed. So it needs to be xp compatability setting.

What about the other settings like 256 colour and the like do they need changing i have them on default all unticked but im not sure. Thank
Posted March 14, 2011
Having the exact same issue on vista aswell! Hope I can get it to work soon
Posted March 14, 2011
Did you try to run it as admin?
Posted March 14, 2011
Running it as admin and with XP compatibility worked for me :)
Posted March 14, 2011
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DonLee: Having the exact same issue on vista aswell! Hope I can get it to work soon
If you get it working give us a shout mate and let me know how you do it, this is driving me round the bend.
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klaymen: Did you try to run it as admin?
Yeah i tried that i also tried downloading the patch suggested but the patch wont install runs into a problem 25 % of the way through with Binkw32. dll file and tells me to ignore or abort

i think maybe this is somehow related to why it wont start, maybe i will download the game fresh from GOG n try again might be corrupted download or something. But it passed the integrity check so im stumped.
Post edited March 14, 2011 by jaredholden
Posted March 14, 2011
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jaredholden: [...]
How big is that Binkw32.dll file in MM7 folder?
Posted March 14, 2011
I've had some time to think about my past experiences with MM7. You could see if making a shortcut to the .exe file helps.
Posted March 15, 2011
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jaredholden: [

Yeah i tried that i also tried downloading the patch suggested but the patch wont install runs into a problem 25 % of the way through with Binkw32. dll file and tells me to ignore or abort

i think maybe this is somehow related to why it wont start, maybe i will download the game fresh from GOG n try again might be corrupted download or something. But it passed the integrity check so im stumped.
Same thing happened when I tried to install the patch. But thanks for the help guys!
Post edited March 15, 2011 by DonLee
Posted March 15, 2011
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jaredholden: [...]
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DonLee:
Just making sure, you're trying the correct patch, right?
Posted March 16, 2011
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jaredholden: [...]
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Thiev: How big is that Binkw32.dll file in MM7 folder?
size 331 kb
size on disk 332 kb

thanks for all the help people, im determined to play this game again
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