European Air War - Can I play it on WinXP?

[Hitman]

I can run EAW in Windows XP fine, but it has to be on an ATI card. NVidias give the dreaded 7127 error with the latest drivers.

Go here and scroll down the page to find the relevant info:

http://www.xmission.com/~mmagleby/eaw/guide.htm

Hope that helps

[Dowly]

Aye, it's the fracking 7127 error I'm getting. So, seems like I'm screwed... AFAIK, the 66.93 drivers wont even work on series 8 Nvidia cards.

[Hitman]

Things have come to a point nowadays that it is worth saving an older computer for playing some great games that are getting more and more problems to work with XP, Vista and newest hardware :hmm:

I miss playing Panzer Commander (Will not work in XP), EAW (Will not work with modern NVidias and ATIS do not render horizon clouds) and some others

[Panama_Red]

Hitman:
Starting with ATI driver 10-07, ground/distance fog is now enabled on all sorts of older games and EAW is one of them. Try upgrading your ATI drivers and see the differance.

[Hitman]

Good news for all EAW users!

With the latest patch release, the 7127 error problem has been fixed and EAW can be played on modern systems.

Go here for more info: http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.ph..._released.html

[EDIT]

Panama, I had missed your message, sorry! I have a modern NVidia, not an ATI. I have an ATI on my laptop and used it to check EAW, but it's not a good system to play that kind of game.

[Skybird]

Cheap - and better - alternative to EAW and IL2 is to get a copy of BoB2 and the latest patch! My new benchmark sim for WWII.

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by Hitman

Good news for all EAW users!

With the latest patch release, the 7127 error problem has been fixed and EAW can be played on modern systems.

Go here for more info: http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.ph..._released.html

[EDIT]

Panama, I had missed your message, sorry! I have a modern NVidia, not an ATI. I have an ATI on my laptop and used it to check EAW, but it's not a good system to play that kind of game.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTT!!!!!!

@Skybird

True, but EAW has that something in it I always loved.

[Hitman]

I also have BoB, it is a GREAT sim, and the "strategic" campaign aspect is truly inmersive. But as Dowly says, for entirely subjective and personal reasons there are times when you get in love with a sim, and in that sense EAW always got my heart.