acb2k9: Hey folks,

I went and bought Overseer (it's the only FMV tex game I never played, and have always wanted to play it), and did so without doing my research as to whether it would work on W7.

Well, it doesn't seem to. It crashes at start up. I went so far as to make a .bat file in the command prompt that closed explorer before running the game and then starting explorer.exe again upon the games exit (someone on a forum had suggested it). It would still crash on startup.

Has anyone been able to get it working on W7 64, or am I out of luck. Also, if I set up a win95 virtual machine, that should work, right?. I would rather not do that for 1 game, as it's a lot of work, but I probably would if I had to.

Thanks

acb2k9: Hey folks,

I went and bought Overseer (it's the only FMV tex game I never played, and have always wanted to play it), and did so without doing my research as to whether it would work on W7.

Well, it doesn't seem to. It crashes at start up. I went so far as to make a .bat file in the command prompt that closed explorer before running the game and then starting explorer.exe again upon the games exit (someone on a forum had suggested it). It would still crash on startup.

Has anyone been able to get it working on W7 64, or am I out of luck. Also, if I set up a win95 virtual machine, that should work, right?. I would rather not do that for 1 game, as it's a lot of work, but I probably would if I had to.

Thanks

andrew84uk: I'm running Windows 7 64-bt and Overseer works fine for me, no problems at all.

Cixelsid: Just quickly want to mention this for anybody else encountering this type of problem. Overseer suffers from a Buffer Flow Exception at launch - this is pretty normal for older programs, programmers rarely saw the need to secure stack space before viruses started injecting themselves into it. The DEP or Data Execution Prevention feature of Windows 7 will detect the BEX and shut down the process. In order for Overseer to run you will have to add it as an exception to the DEP Handler. You can do this by going to My Computer->Properties->Advanced System Properties->Advanced->Performance Settings->Data Execution Prevention and adding "Overseer.exe" to the exception list.

BrooklynThunder: Followed your advice, but Overseer still won't play...any other suggestions?

Thanks!

BrooklynThunder: Followed your advice, but Overseer still won't play...any other suggestions?

Thanks!

nehalem: Hi all,

I'm also experiencing issues when trying to run Overseer on my win7 64 bit.
(I didn't try pandora nor UAKM, since I played those longtime ago)

The game installs without any error messages.

When starting the game, it seems to hang on a black screen (no video playing).

Until i use ALT-TAB to go into windows and then ALT-TAB back into Overseer...
After doing this i can see the 'overseer menu', but my mouse cursor is stuck (not responding at all in the game menu) ... so I am unable to press 'new game' :(

If anybody has any ideas on how to get this game working, please let me know.


PS: i'll attempt to add the exception thingy via config screen as mentioned above, didn't try that yet.


regards,

Primate: I'm currently running it on Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. The .exe file properties are set to Windows 95 compatibility mode with visual themes disabled and "Run as administrator" checked (it was set like this automatically/after the installation). The game runs just fine most of the time, although there's no MIDI music (muted, turning it on results in an error message popping up when entering a location). It also crashes/freezes now and then. Apparently the game contains an auto-save feature which so far has allowed me to recover my game successfully after each crash, so it doesn't bother me much.

OlausPetrus: Midi has two settings Microsoft GS Wavetable and Microsoft Midi Mapper. GS Wavetable gives error message, but if you select Midi mapper then the music should work.