I give up. If you want to run this on Win 7 Home 32-bit, forget it. By all means, if you are some kind of masochist who wants to spend hours trying to get PG 2 to work on your machine, be my guest. But if you value your sanity, take my advice and choose life.

I think there are other ways to fix your problem, and it shouldn't take you ages. Check your family or friends - maybe someone has an old laptop with Windows XP, or try to find your own copy of XP and install it so your computer has 2 OS.

For what it's worth the game works just fine on my machine, and that's Win 7 64-bit which can only be less compatible.

Right click on the file .exe. Choose "troubleshoot compaitiability." Click every single round button excpt the last one.

Make sure the game is set to run in WIN98/ME or Win95.

Click next. Click every single button except the last one.

Then click launch the game, or run, or whatever it says.

The game will open. The game will run in 256 colors and maybe a slightly smaller screen, but it'll run.


Second option. At the OP = if you still can't get the game to run do a google searcxh for "OPEN GENERAL". It's an updated version of PGII and it's free. And it's BUILT to work with Windows 7, 32 and 64 bit.

It's open source, uses the same engine, has tons of upgrades, and it's even more fun IMO.

thanks!!! i'll never buy another GOG game after the PG2 B.S. I went through trying to get it to play on Win 7 64bit.

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Not sure you can blame GOG for Micro$oft's approach and to be fair they can't maintain backwards compatibility for ever as otherwise the operating system would never move forward.