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28-09-2012 04:03 PM

Spown

In win7 the game is unable to write in registry however it can read, the reg should look something like this.

Quote:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Stick Man Games]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Stick Man Games\Chaos Overlords]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Stick Man Games\Chaos Overlords\1.0]
"prefsFullScreen"=dword:00000000
"commType"=dword:00000001
"prefsBaseStats"=dword:00000001
"prefsCombat"=dword:00000001
"prefsDiff"=dword:00000000
"prefsFreeGang"=dword:00000001
"prefsObjective"=dword:00000000
"prefsSlide"=dword:00000001
"prefsTimeLimit"=dword:00000000
"PrefsVidDeep"=dword:00000000
"prefsVolumeCD"=dword:00000000
"prefsVolumeSFX"=dword:00000000
"serialNum"=dword:00000000

The best way to determine where the keys are - is to start procmon utility, filter only Chaos Overlords process out and apply a second filter with "Path" -> "contains" - > "Stick Man Games".

29-08-2012 01:46 AM

guest

CO soundtrack

I would also love to get the soundtrack for this game. I downloaded a file that said it was the full game with the soundtrack included. But I cant get the music working or even find the files.

16-04-2012 07:07 PM

Lykurgos

Does anyone know of a location from which the soundtrack for Chaos Overlords can be downloaded? I've been listening to the individual tracks on Youtube, and by gosh they are stunning.

15-04-2012 02:09 PM

Lykurgos

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ragnoff

I am running a 64 bit windows 7 home edition and I cannot get this to run. I have set compatibility to win95, done the fullscreen fix suggested above to set it as a window, I am not sure what else to do. As someone said it is a win95 games so I cannot run it in DOSbox to my knowledge.

Has anyone gotten this to run in a 64 bit environment, hopefully window 7?

I appreciate I'm somewhat late but hey, this is also an old game, improves with age and the absence of a reboot right?

I have the game working well, including saving and restoring save games, on a Windows 7 64 bit installation.

The one and only thing I've done to achieve this is run the game via D-Fend Reloaded. In detail what I did was:

1. Install D-Fend Reloaded (I used a portable installation)
2. Manually created a game folder for Chaos Overlords in the D-Fend Virtual HD folder
3. Unzipped the content of the archive for Chaos Overlords downloaded from this site
4. Used Profile > Add Manually within D-Fend Reloaded and told it to run Chaos Overlords.exe
5. In game, disabled the music to prevent the flickering cursor
6. Set my windows taskbar to auto-hide, so that it did not obscure part of the gaming screen (I can only run fullscreen, haven't managed to run inside a window yet)

22-10-2011 12:16 AM

marzzbar

Ragnoff: I've gotten the funky error before when I've saved the game outside of the folder. My chaos installation is in C:\Chaos, and by default the game tries to save in My Documents or something, so make sure you manually change the location to C:\Chaos or whatever

21-10-2011 06:40 AM

Borodin

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Fifth Horseman

Have there been any updates on its' state for last year or so?

Not since April. I frankly wouldn't have expected many, but if they were going to start a FB page, they should have realized that people would use it to, well, communicate.

21-10-2011 12:13 AM

Ragnoff

Cant get it working

well that almost worked. I downloaded VMware and installed a Windows 98 operating system. Move the game into the virtual machine, and was able to play for a couple hours. Next day tried to play again and started getting the "funky" error when it's unable to load files. This completely crashed the system for the most part. I get the option to start a new game or open an old game but I can't see anything and any choices made here crash the system.

I don't have any saved games at this point, as I deleted the entire folder several times, clean the registry several times, and re-copied the chaos folder that originally worked back over to the virtual machine. Now nothing seems to work!

Very frustrated, anyone have any ideas?

20-10-2011 05:17 PM

Borodin

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Fifth Horseman

Have there been any updates on its' state for last year or so?

Last was in April:

Quote:

While hacking on the CO source code a while back, I ended up throwing it out and building a new engine that plays the old game. I started the UI and realized how small a 640x480 screen looks on a modern computer. I tried scaling 2x, but it looks like crap. So, I've been contemplating making a hybrid by grafting the stronger features of the CO2 design onto the new engine. Any opinions or ideas?

They don't seem to post much, which is foolish if you're going to maintain an FB page, since that's pretty much it's main function: establishing and keeping contact with others.

19-10-2011 09:25 PM

The Fifth Horseman

Have there been any updates on its' state for last year or so?

19-10-2011 05:07 PM

Borodin

Just for the record, there appears to be a Facebook page now for the in-development new version of Chaos Overlords:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Chaos-...18573421512394

Doesn't look like there's been much activity, though.

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