I'm trying to help a buddy play. Keeps getting a message ' Runtime error'. (Vista) Cannot start the game. (vanilla) Would you need to know laptop stats?
My first suggestion would be to make sure he is using 'Run as Administrator' - that solved all the issues I had on my Vista laptop. EDIT: Ahhh, you found that advce elsewhere too - fair enough. We will need a Windows 7 thread here soon enough.
1. make sure the game is set to compatibility XP SP2 2. make sure it is set to run as administrator (oddly enough, I had to set it manually on win7, even though UAC is disabled and I am administrator) 3. run the game from TFE-X, not by running the EXE directly. (also, you must do that if you want the "full HP from level ups" and other some such to work)
Peculiar as it sounds, we don't really provide support for the vanilla game: thats Atari's job. Your friend's best option is to install the Co8 mod. And if folks knew, they would answer - silence generally means no-one knows beyond what has already been suggested.
Ah. Ok. Though it seems the official Atari forums haven't been used in 2 years. Unless I'm looking at the wrong thing.
