Running Fighting Steel on Window 7

[Fleet Command CC]

I bought FS the other day and try installing it on W7 and it didn't run I got the normal popup.

FightingSteel.exe - System Error.

The program can't start because d3drm.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.

I thought all it needs is the D3DRM.DLL from the FS Disc, so I got this file from the DIRECTX folder and copy it into the follow folder.

C:\Local Disk\Windows\System32\

Then the game works fine on Window 7. I just thought this might be helpful to someone. :)

[DesertSailor]

Ok- got that far, and the thing still crashes. Admittedly I am running W7 as a virtual machine within OSX. Any advice here?

charley
aka Desert Sailor

[fred8615]

Ok- got that far, and the thing still crashes. Admittedly I am running W7 as a virtual machine within OSX. Any advice here?

Are you running 32 or 64 bit Win 7? If it's 64 bit, the dll file has to go in the SYSWOW64 folder, not system32.

[DesertSailor]

32 bit.

and the DLL is where it should be. Still getting an APPCRASH. Which I knew. Stupid windows.

charley
aka Desert Sailor

[William Miller]

DesertSailor,

Unfortunately I cannot help you as you are using OSX (i.e. a Mac); I do not use OSX nor do I have any Mac machines to test with. Bear in mind that Fighting Steel is completely unsupported on virtual machines, and it is extremely difficult to set it to run in VM since the game uses the no-longer-supported "Real Mode" of Direct3D that was dropped some years back.

Thanks.

[RickLib]

Are you running 32 or 64 bit Win 7? If it's 64 bit, the dll file has to go in the SYSWOW64 folder, not system32.

Not to butt in, but I have the same problem (trying to run FS on a Windows 7 OS [on a Dell PC]). I have a 64-bit. When I try to put the dll file in the SYSWOW64 file I get told only the "administrator" can do that.

Ideas?

[fred8615]

Not to butt in, but I have the same problem (trying to run FS on a Windows 7 OS [on a Dell PC]). I have a 64-bit. When I try to put the dll file in the SYSWOW64 file I get told only the "administrator" can do that.

Ideas?
Sounds like the account you're using is not an administrator account. Otherwise it would warn you, but still allow you to move/copy the file. You need to log in as an admin.

I know this works cause I just did it myself a couple of days ago when I played my game for the first time after installing it on my new system.

[old_pop2000]

Sounds like the account you're using is not an administrator account. Otherwise it would warn you, but still allow you to move/copy the file. You need to log in as an admin.

I know this works cause I just did it myself a couple of days ago when I played my game for the first time after installing it on my new system.

If you right click on the executable or the executable's shortcut, one of the options is "run as administrator". That should work.

[RickLib]

Got the file transferred and looks like that did the job! Thanks, everybody!!