Run a 32-bit game on a 64-bit Win7 Home

[Dilyan]

Just wasted £16 on a game I used to love playing back in the day. However on my current rig things wouldn't start.

https://s14.postimage.org/uhe5kztan/F22.png

Tried the Properties/Compatibility/Run this program in compatibility mode for (tried all the options there), still get the same thing.
https://s10.postimage.org/kxridzxnb/F22_1.png

Any software I can use to sort this out?
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[Alpha-9]

What's the game?

I might be able to help, plenty of experience doing that shit.
Why wont it work? - Errors, jsut not running etc.


I upgraded my GPU and found i couldnt play UFO aftershock anymore due to pixel shaders

If all else fails you can try a virtual box
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[Phil.]

Your Images;

https://s14.postimage.org/trvd8msr3/F22.png

https://s10.postimage.org/ek2faqsrb/F22_1.png

[Dilyan]

How about now:

https://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/ee494/didodimov/F22.png
https://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/ee494/didodimov/F221.png

Game is F-22 Air Dominance Fighter.
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[Alpha-9]

Oh, didnt see those screenies.

You're doing the compatability wrong. You set it to run in the compatability of what it works in, eg. if youre on win7 and the game doesnt support win7 and is an XP game, run it in compatability for windows XP, not windows 7 (Jah get me dawg?)

It's a 16bit app so its pre windows xp it seems?

What's the game?

Also right click run as admin, fixes some problems, looks to me like thats the setup.exe not the actual game. You should still be able to install it regardless of 32/64bit unless it has some weird override which disables installing on 64bit....

But that screenie of it being like /??/setup.exe
looks like its wildly confused....did you actually buy this game or is it weirdly mounted? o.O

If its that old its actually 16bit then you'd be better off in DOSBOX
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[Dilyan]

[P.addy]

Find program called dosbox.

[Alpha-9]

[CaNsA]

Try this

https://taw.wikia.com/wiki/Installing_and_Running_ADF/TAW_on_a_Modern_System

[Dilyan]

[CaNsA]

[Colin Edwards]

XP mode..

CE

[Dilyan]

[CaNsA]

[Alpha-9]

[Colin Edwards]

CE for Colin Edwards...

Pleased you got it sorted

[el_oso]

instead of using a separate system, why not use VM?
https://www.virtualbox.org/
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[Colin Edwards]

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TAW kicked ass if they updated the skins it would rock again, loved that game.
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[Dilyan]

[The View Askew]

32 bit app with 16 bit installer? 64 bit can't run 16 bit code, if it's popular someone is bound to have written a 32/64 bit installer for it.

Normally only the installers are 16 bit, app will probably run fine under compatibility once installed.
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[ninja_butler]

I've successfully used Windows Virtual PC 2007 in the past; it isn't supposed to work on Windows 7 but it usually does. The only annoyance is that you've got to install the games as OEM's unless you can figure out how to run them from the DVD/CD drive, which is more complicated than it sounds.

Some old games just will not run on Windows 7 at all but most games made for Windows XP can be made to run with some tweaking.

[ThoughtContro...]

F22 ADF was around when Win 95 OSR2 was all the rage, it's hardly made for XP.
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