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[Luchsen]

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Originally Posted by the review

There are a few things to note as far as game performance goes:
- The music is missing.
- Unzip the files to c:\chaos.
- After unzipping the game, run chaosreg.reg.
- Games should be saved to the game's own directory, otherwise they won't work.
- If you are experiencing problems with the cursor, switch off the in-game music.

Apart from that, I can only recommend to run a 32bit operating system as virtual machine.

[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.

[The Fifth Horseman]

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

[Borodin]

Originally Posted by The Fifth Horseman

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

Last was in April:

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.

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?

[Borodin]

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.

[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

[Lykurgos]

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)

[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.

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.