Jeff Wayne's 'The War Of The Worlds' possible fix?
Recently i tried to play this game on Windows XP but with no success then i tried the no cd patch and it worked, but the downside to this is there is no music on the game. Would it be possible for someone to make a fix for the exe so it will play with the cd? maybe with a hex edit.
Recently i tried to play this game on Windows XP but with no success then i tried the no cd patch and it worked, but the downside to this is there is no music on the game.
Would it be possible for someone to make a fix for the exe so it will play with the cd? maybe with a hex edit.
When you start the game without the no cd patch, the game tries to boot up the cd then screen goes black and goes back to the desktop.
Maybe there is a problem authenticating the cd or something else.
Thanks
Rich
Would it be possible for someone to make a fix for the exe so it will play with the cd? maybe with a hex edit.
When you start the game without the no cd patch, the game tries to boot up the cd then screen goes black and goes back to the desktop.
Maybe there is a problem authenticating the cd or something else.
Thanks
Rich
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Hi,
I have the same problem. just recently bought the game "War of the Worlds" on ebay. I'm still trying to find a no-cd patch for it though. Where can I get a copy of that ?
I did follow a link from the manual and managed to leave a question on the Atari website asking of they had any patches for the game.
Steve
I have the same problem. just recently bought the game "War of the Worlds" on ebay. I'm still trying to find a no-cd patch for it though. Where can I get a copy of that ?
I did follow a link from the manual and managed to leave a question on the Atari website asking of they had any patches for the game.
Steve
Hi,
Just in case you're still interested I managed to sort out my problem. I managed to find the patch I was looking for and downloaded it.
The downloaded file is called WOW.exe and is about twice the size of the one on the War Of The Worlds CD.
The trick is that if you rename new WOW.exe WOWStart.exe and move it into your War Of The Worlds program directory the game runs perfectly, including the music.
Steve
Just in case you're still interested I managed to sort out my problem. I managed to find the patch I was looking for and downloaded it.
The downloaded file is called WOW.exe and is about twice the size of the one on the War Of The Worlds CD.
The trick is that if you rename new WOW.exe WOWStart.exe and move it into your War Of The Worlds program directory the game runs perfectly, including the music.
Steve
sorry for the long wait to reply i never thought anyone would answer 
but i did try that and the cd audio still doesn't play even if you go to the in game cd player at the menu screen.
it says no cd inserted. also when you are playing there is no cd audio.
the patch i got was probably designed for illegal copies to play without the cd's
maybe you thought the menu screen was cd audio but thats built into the game sfx.
if not could you send this patch to me at
p.s i also bought mine of ebay
are you fan of war of the worlds?
but i did try that and the cd audio still doesn't play even if you go to the in game cd player at the menu screen.
it says no cd inserted. also when you are playing there is no cd audio.
the patch i got was probably designed for illegal copies to play without the cd's
maybe you thought the menu screen was cd audio but thats built into the game sfx.
if not could you send this patch to me at
p.s i also bought mine of ebay
are you fan of war of the worlds?
No problem. I'll email you the copy of the patch I found. I've been playing the game now for the past couple of weeks with no problems. The in-game CD player doesn't make any sounds, but if I want to play the audio files on the disc I just run with Windows Media Player. In-game music plays just fine though.
One important thing is that if you have multiple CD players in your system you have to install and run the game from the player with the lowest drive letter. If you're not then you have to re-install and start again.
Fan of War of the Worlds ? Sort of - I've been reading Wells, Verne, Wyndham, Azimov and Clarke since I was about 11 (a long time ago now).
One important thing is that if you have multiple CD players in your system you have to install and run the game from the player with the lowest drive letter. If you're not then you have to re-install and start again.
Fan of War of the Worlds ? Sort of - I've been reading Wells, Verne, Wyndham, Azimov and Clarke since I was about 11 (a long time ago now).
woah after searching the net for hours and getting stressed at the thought of not being able to play this game again someone finds the patch required
I would appreciate it greatly if you could email me a copy of the file i need to get this game working in winxp to hinch@furious-angels.com
thanks alot
I would appreciate it greatly if you could email me a copy of the file i need to get this game working in winxp to hinch@furious-angels.com
thanks alot
Same here lol! If someone could sling me a patch thatd be great.
seventhsun_2k@hotmail.com - if you could have the subject line obviously to do with the game thatd be great.
seventhsun_2k@hotmail.com - if you could have the subject line obviously to do with the game thatd be great.
You can find the WOW.exe file on this website http://spacetarget.com/games/pc_war_of_the_worlds.shtml
I cant believe how many other people still want to play this game! Well actually i can cause its great! Did a quick search on the net in case someone had written or found a patch for XP, never really believed i'd find one! Cheers guys! If this isn't the patch that the music works for, can someone post a link to that too though?
I'm still having problems getting War of the Worlds to run.
I've downloaded the patch and the game now *tries* to start at least, but it's bombing out with three alert boxes saying;
DDERR_NOCOOPERATIVELEVELSET
then,
Create surface Failed
and finally,
LoadShadesTables: Invalid colour depth
The readme mentions a "DDERR - Out of Memory. Unable to create surfaces." problem and suggests closing all other applications to create more space in memory, but I've tried that (and I have 1GB of memory) with no joy.
I also tried running it on my old Win98 PC (without the patch, obviously) but I get the same problem.
Annoyingly, I played the game before (a couple of years ago) on my girlfriends crappy old laptop without any problems! Typical!
Anyone out there encountered this and solved it?
Thanks a lot.
I've downloaded the patch and the game now *tries* to start at least, but it's bombing out with three alert boxes saying;
DDERR_NOCOOPERATIVELEVELSET
then,
Create surface Failed
and finally,
LoadShadesTables: Invalid colour depth
The readme mentions a "DDERR - Out of Memory. Unable to create surfaces." problem and suggests closing all other applications to create more space in memory, but I've tried that (and I have 1GB of memory) with no joy.
I also tried running it on my old Win98 PC (without the patch, obviously) but I get the same problem.
Annoyingly, I played the game before (a couple of years ago) on my girlfriends crappy old laptop without any problems! Typical!
Anyone out there encountered this and solved it?
Thanks a lot.
After playing around with this, the solution is so simple.
Firstly, download patch from above website (posted eariler).
Copy crack to installed folder like specified.
Right click on crack file, click on the compatibility tab, tick the box and select Windows 98/ME mode.
Load the game and you have access to all resolutions with no errors (apart from the usual game bugs)!
Hope this helps!
Chris.
Firstly, download patch from above website (posted eariler).
Copy crack to installed folder like specified.
Right click on crack file, click on the compatibility tab, tick the box and select Windows 98/ME mode.
Load the game and you have access to all resolutions with no errors (apart from the usual game bugs)!
Hope this helps!
Chris.
Hi
I too have managed to get hold of a copy of this reputedly wonderful game, and I too cannot get it to work on Windows XP!
I have tried everything mentioned here at least twice, but am still stuck on either nothing happening at all or the three error messages of doom (DDERR_NOCOOPERATIVELEVELSET, Create surface Failed, LoadShadeTables: Invalid colour depth)
Now I am getting quite annoyed with it! Any suggestions? An idiots step by step guide on exactly what to do would be appreciated
It seems there are so many different ways of cracking/making it work, I'm not exactly sure which is the one I need to use.
I too have managed to get hold of a copy of this reputedly wonderful game, and I too cannot get it to work on Windows XP!
I have tried everything mentioned here at least twice, but am still stuck on either nothing happening at all or the three error messages of doom (DDERR_NOCOOPERATIVELEVELSET, Create surface Failed, LoadShadeTables: Invalid colour depth)
Now I am getting quite annoyed with it! Any suggestions? An idiots step by step guide on exactly what to do would be appreciated
It seems there are so many different ways of cracking/making it work, I'm not exactly sure which is the one I need to use.
I am running Win2K on a PIII 600Mhz.
Using the patched version of wow.exe (I didn't need to rename it to wowstart.exe as someone previously suggested) I could only run at 640x480 (but at least it ran). I found a fix so that I can run at 1024x768.
This involves editing the registry. In the following section :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Rage\Jeff Wayne's 'The War Of The Worlds'\1.00.000\Screen
I changed the 'Size' and 'Support screen size' from 640,480 to 1024,768.
This seems to work, although the lower res intro and menu screens look a little odd stuck up in the top left corner (i.e. the screen resolution is set to 1024x768 but these windows are designed at 640x480 so other than looking a bit small they are exactly the same as the old ones).
I am probably going to have a bit of a fiddle to see if I can get the screen to change in the way it should do (i.e. using the settings in the game without getting the DirectDraw errors), but at present I am happy running like this as I don't really want to chenge resolution once I am happy with the setting (I am probably going to try the 1280x1024 next as this is my current working resolution).
John.
Using the patched version of wow.exe (I didn't need to rename it to wowstart.exe as someone previously suggested) I could only run at 640x480 (but at least it ran). I found a fix so that I can run at 1024x768.
This involves editing the registry. In the following section :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Rage\Jeff Wayne's 'The War Of The Worlds'\1.00.000\Screen
I changed the 'Size' and 'Support screen size' from 640,480 to 1024,768.
This seems to work, although the lower res intro and menu screens look a little odd stuck up in the top left corner (i.e. the screen resolution is set to 1024x768 but these windows are designed at 640x480 so other than looking a bit small they are exactly the same as the old ones).
I am probably going to have a bit of a fiddle to see if I can get the screen to change in the way it should do (i.e. using the settings in the game without getting the DirectDraw errors), but at present I am happy running like this as I don't really want to chenge resolution once I am happy with the setting (I am probably going to try the 1280x1024 next as this is my current working resolution).
John.
hi i tried to download the patch from the link above but it apears that they are no longer hosting the file, does anyone know of anuther site with it or could you sent it to seigedelarouge@btinternet.com?
thanks in advance.
thanks in advance.
Amazing! Im so happy right now. Downloaded the patch and the game works. I remember being so excited when this game came out and the fact that on the final level it continually crashed and I never completed the game did irk somewhat. But now I have the chance to get to the Martian base once again and no doubt indulge in some crappy Vox32 animation
Im also going to try for the ridiculous resolution registry change; Im just happy there are people out there who appreciate the same flawed genius that this game was. And that there are people with more knowledge on how to get old crappy but brilliant games to work. Superb.
Im also going to try for the ridiculous resolution registry change; Im just happy there are people out there who appreciate the same flawed genius that this game was. And that there are people with more knowledge on how to get old crappy but brilliant games to work. Superb.
