Comments on: Making Colonization work in Vista

Question: Making Colonization work in Vista

saladin — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 05:33:49 -0800

Can't play Colonization in Vista...

A have a (ahem) copy of Colonization that I'd been happily playing on my 3 year old XP computer for several years, problem free. I recently bought a new PC with Vista; after copying over all the relevant files, my new machine steadfastly refuses to open Colonization. Instead, I'm given the error message "C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe; This system does not support fullscreen mode." I'm then directed to close the program. I get the same error message when attempting to reinstall.

I'm beginning to worry that I'll never again know the pleasure of paying the Tupi to burn British villages. Help me, AskMetafilter!

By: goingonit

goingonit — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 05:46:01 -0800

DOSBox.

By: goingonit

goingonit — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 05:46:47 -0800

I should mention I play Colonization on DOSBox (on Linux) and it works wonderfully.

By: saladin

saladin — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 06:05:30 -0800

Awesome, works like a charm, thanks goingonit.

By: ROU_Xenophobe

ROU_Xenophobe — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 06:25:33 -0800

Alternatively, you might try Colonization for Windows. It's available at underdogs.

By: damn dirty ape

damn dirty ape — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 06:56:58 -0800

Also have you tried right-clicking on the executable and selecting compatiblity mode?

By: saladin

saladin — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:07:21 -0800

ROU_Xenophobe: I had no idea such an animal existed, I'm downloading it now, thanks.

damn dirty ape: yeah, I tried running in XP compatibility mode, but it gave me the same error message.