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Running Jeff Wayne's War of The Worlds PC on XP
« Thread Started on Feb 3, 2007, 12:42am »

Got hold of a copy of the classic PC game from 1998 but having trouble running it on XP?

Help is at hand!

Here are instructions on how to make the game work on Windows XP...

Right click and 'save target as' on this link...
http://www.richardgibbs.co.uk/waroftheworldsfixedexe.zip(Thanks to Centurius for hosting the link)
When the download is complete, unzip the file with Winzip and cut the 'WoWexe' that is in the file and paste it in the game folder when you have installed it. It will ask if you want to replace the old file.. answer 'yes'.

Go into the JWWOTW folder in 'Program files' and right click on both the WOW and WOW.exe icons, select the 'compatibility' tabs, check the 'run with' boxes and select 'Windows 98' on the drop down tabs. Click 'Apply' and 'ok'.

You should now be set.
You *may* find that some of the music won't work and the cut scenes may be distorted but at least the game itself should now run. You may need to go into the JWWOTW folder and click on the WOW.exe to run the game first time. In my case, once I'd done this, in subsequent sessions the game loaded fine from the normal game menu
Also this game, being old and not configured for XP, may try to convince your PC it doesn't have memory to run it.
Best way to combat this is to..
1) Always run the game from a new boot.
2) Make sure all your caches are clear.
3) Make sure there are NO other programs running before playing.
It should work ok if you follow the above steps.

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Re: Running Jeff Wayne's War of The Worlds PC on X
« Reply #1 on Feb 3, 2007, 4:35pm »

Cheers Nerfington, I'm going to give that a go later. I do miss not being able to play the game on the new PC.

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Re: Running Jeff Wayne's War of The Worlds PC on X
« Reply #2 on Apr 9, 2007, 6:57pm »

Whhooo Hoooooooo!!!!

I've got it working at last!!!!
Cheers Nerf!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Re: Running Jeff Wayne's War of The Worlds PC on X
« Reply #3 on May 19, 2007, 2:42pm »

I think I followed those directions correctly but I just get an error message >:(

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Re: Running Jeff Wayne's War of The Worlds PC on X
« Reply #4 on May 22, 2007, 11:32pm »

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Re: Running Jeff Wayne's War of The Worlds PC on X
« Reply #5 on May 25, 2007, 10:51am »

The War Of The Worlds Win 32 App has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

..after click here...
AppName: wow.exe AppVer: 1.0.0.1 ModName: aclayers.dll
ModVer: 5.1.2600.2180 Offset: 00012f5c

after that it goesd into long technical details...

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Re: Running Jeff Wayne's War of The Worlds PC on X
« Reply #6 on May 26, 2007, 1:18am »

Yikes!

Let me look into it....

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Re: Running Jeff Wayne's War of The Worlds PC on X
« Reply #7 on Jun 23, 2007, 3:30pm »

Any clue?

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Re: Running Jeff Wayne's War of The Worlds PC on X
« Reply #8 on Jun 23, 2007, 5:20pm »

No, sorry, I have some techy friends I want to drill about it. If I can just get hold of them...
I'll do what I can.

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Re: Running Jeff Wayne's War of The Worlds PC on X
« Reply #9 on Jun 27, 2007, 12:13pm »

Thanks!
I expect I did something wrong but I tried three times with the same result

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Re: Running Jeff Wayne's War of The Worlds PC on X
« Reply #10 on Jun 30, 2007, 1:46am »

Hm, interesting, i'd like to play the game again (my system runs XP), but i need to buy the game again (amazon are selling it apparently), the human disk of the one i already got has a hiddious 1 inch crack leading out from the center of the disc.....so i need to get the game again, i'll see if i can play it without the patch first...if not i'll give the patch a try.

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