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Post by Matt on Jan 3, 2018 0:45:43 GMT -5
You need to have the CD in the drive or you'll get that. The registry key could be pointing to the wrong letter; which drive letter is your CD-ROM drive?
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Post by Rob O on Jan 3, 2018 0:52:07 GMT -5
You need to have the CD in the drive or you'll get that. The registry key could be pointing to the wrong letter; which drive letter is your CD-ROM drive? It is E which is correct. I have a scratched up CD so that might be the problem. |
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Post by Matt on Jan 3, 2018 1:09:47 GMT -5
Always possible, but I kind of doubt it. More likely it's just not picking up that the CD is there for some reason. I have to call it a night here, but let's try it again tomorrow. Maybe try re-adding the registry key just for hahas.
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Post by Stuart on Jan 3, 2018 7:56:28 GMT -5
Hi Matt,
Thanks for coming back to me, i've tried it on windows 10, 8 and even a vm of 98, the disabling battleboxes seems to have worked but now i have it when a computer is wiped and it then trys to play the animation of the execution it crashes any thoughts and ideas?
Again thank you on this as didnt expect a reply was more in hope lol
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Post by Stuart on Jan 3, 2018 8:35:09 GMT -5
Hi Matt,
I've just retested it and its all working, thank you so much for coming back to me im so happy i can play one of the classic games of my childhood.
Thanks!
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Post by Stuart on Jan 4, 2018 7:12:20 GMT -5
Hi Matt, i manged to kill 3 opponents and the animation tried to play but skipped and was fine with that but killed another and risk just keeps crashing, is there anyway to set it to skip the execution bit animation?
Cheers
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Post by Matt on Jan 5, 2018 0:18:46 GMT -5
Hi Stuart - thanks for that info! My problem has been that I can never get it to crash on my end. I don't see the animations or any videos. I never played this game when it came out, so I honestly don't know *what* they're supposed to look like. I played for like an hour tonight and I didn't see one animation (or crash)
Do you know of a 'quick method' to trigger a crash? If I saw it, maybe I could do something.
This is what I get for putting a game on the site I never really played lol
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Post by Stuart on Jan 8, 2018 6:47:35 GMT -5
Thanks for coming back,
When it used to run after each computer player was killed they'd be a short animation clip where it'd represent the computer player being guillotine.
I setup a new ultimate game on Europe with battle boxes off and all the computer opponents, i killed the black played and could see it attempt to run the animation but it looked like it skipped it but didnt crash, then i killed another and again same thing happened so thought great all sorted, but when i killed the next it tried to play the animation again but crashes it.
I know its a real long shot as it is a old classic game.
Thanks again for replying
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Post by Ken on Jan 19, 2018 22:05:26 GMT -5
Hi Matt
Appreciate your work. Tried to install risk but it does not work. Screen flashes black and then returns to the file screen. It is the same behavior as when I tried to install through windows 10 old software.
The .exe file on my CD is different than yours - it has no logo and is a different size. The date stamp for the file is the same as yours. It was also not in the english file, no exe file was. My exe file was not in a subfolder.
Any ideas?
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Post by Matt on Jan 22, 2018 20:29:58 GMT -5
Hey there Ken, Have you tried the .exe I posted earlier in the thread? It's buried on the page before and easy to miss. If not, try this and see if it's helpful. Risk.exe link |
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Post by Fairbanks on Jan 30, 2018 13:06:03 GMT -5
Hi
Trying to find a way to make this work on a Mac......
Is this a lost cause?
thanks!
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Post by Matt on Feb 1, 2018 14:17:45 GMT -5
Hi Fairbanks, I know next to nothing about Macs, unfortunately. Maybe someone else will have an answer.  |
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Post by John Riskfan on Feb 7, 2018 5:27:19 GMT -5
Thanks Matt !
Just read your post about using an old Risk CD on a new PC.
I am going to try this when I get a chance.
Kudos to you.
John
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Post by Ooijl on Mar 2, 2018 17:16:03 GMT -5
Hey guys,
I just stumbled over this thread and finally got RISK working after years of searching for a solution to get it run. My game always crashed, when I tried to save a game. So I unchecked the "read-only" box in the properties of the "SAVEGAME" folder and now it works fine. Maybe you can try this also for the "ANIMS" folder. Right now my game works without problems.
Thanks Matt for your great advice
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Post by Rob on Mar 7, 2018 13:50:21 GMT -5
Hi Matt
Firstly thanks very much for the explanation on how to install the game. Every in-game aspect works perfectly.
The only thing i can't do is save a game it seems. I've only tried it on ultimate risk but the game stops working when i try.
Any ideas on what i need to do to solve it?
Thanks in advance
Rob
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