running F-15 on vista

[levi 0]

hello everyone, im new here. Just wanted to see if anybody can help me run F-15 on my machine. i cant get it to work. It installs and executes but when i try to actually play it, it doesnt work. are there any patches or something that can get it to work? thanx

[The Dude 11]

Try this:

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Cannot_get_Janes..._files_Any_help

[Home Fries 8]

I tried it, but was never able to navigate the menus in vista. My solution is to run a dual boot with XP and Vista, and go back to XP for my legacy games (e.g. F-15, EF2000, Longbow 2).

[mikew 4]

Just installed this on on 2 PCs with the following results:

1. 2008 PC with Intel Q6600 and GeForce 8800 with Windows8-32.

The menus are corrupt, but other than that the game plays and looks great.

2. 2002 PC with AMD XP2700+ and Radeon 9800 Pro with WinXP

Menus are fine, but 3D world rendered poorly (maybe software mode?), also some slowdown.

So, is there any solution to the menu problem on a more modern OS?

Trying to run a compatibility mode for Win95,98 or XP seems to make the menus worse.

[GadFly 0]

Running on Windows 7 64 bit has been solved (not by me) and it works for me - see thread in SimHQ

[mikew 4]

Thanks for the info!

Did you have to launch the game via Steam to get it to work?

[GadFly 0]

Yes works as described - install, patch, remove movies, add glide wrapper and other files described and run from Steam; works perfectly for me.

[Home Fries 8]

Good stuff, GadFly! I'll check it out.

For posterity (since the thread will eventually drop off the SimHQ first page), here's the link.