SUBSIM Radio Room Forums - help me run silent steel

This post from 'Elphaba' running Silent Steel on vista, could still work using Windows 7.
Link: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=136599

Quote:

Ok

Good news. I've got it working properly under Vista! Yay me! lol

Anyhow, here's what I did.

I've got the 4CD version, and I installed it (it creates a folder and some files at C:\ISTEEL

Go into that folder and edit the TSAGEWIN.CFG file

My experience was that not only did the video not work (gave an error with vids:lv32) but also the Player Voice wasn't working.

Here's the fix...

Edit the TSAGEWIN.CFG with Notepad and set the follow (NOTE THAT G: IS THE ID OF MY CD ROM DRIVE - THIS WILL PROB BE DIFF. FOR YOU)

DM = 0
PATH = C:\ISTEEL\
CD = G:\
AVI = G:\AVI
TRACKING_SPEECH = ON
PLAY_MIDI = ON
ROLLING_SAVE = PANIC
SCALING = OFF
SUBTITLES = OFF
HASDIGI = TRUE
PLAYER_SPEECH = ON
VOLVIDEO = 1000
VIDEXT = AVI
AVITYPE = AVIVideo
FAMILY = FALSE

OK, with that done, close Notepad and save the file.

Now, that's fixed the Players Voice.

The video was even easier.

First I tried my own advice and downloaded and install KLite Codec 4.1.1 FULL and did the (LOTS OF STUFF) install.

Tried Silent Steel and it still didn't work. Video wouldn't play in Media Center, the old Window media window (from Klite) and others.

HOWEVER, the video would play in Apple Quicktime! So the next step was actually poking around on the CD1 root where a little help file mentions this...

You may, when attempting to start your session, see an error message
stating: "Video not available, cannot find 'vids:IV32' decompressor."
This message means that the Video for Windows (INDEO 3.2) video driver
was not found. To install the driver, run SETUP from the VFW11E directory
on the Tsunami product CD."

Lo and behold, in the root of CD 1 there is a folder called VFW11E, just run the setup program in there and it will install some Windows 3.1.1 codecs.

DON'T REBOOT.

Then go back to the C:\ISTEEL folder and right click the STEEL.EXE and change the compatibility settings to Windows 95, Disable Visual Themes, Disable Desktop composition, Disable display scaling on high DPI settings.

Click Apply

Click on

Double click STEEL.EXE

And it works!!!

Have fun and I hope this is useful