Back when we were trying to get this to run on vista, +G -GOD rest His Soul- made a few comments, and i noted that he had created the "wac lb2' prog...
I had hoped that he could come up with a batch file to load the 'missing' nv4.sys and whatever other files were needed, then the prog would launch f-15.
It might have worked. Using a debugger to figure out what was supposed to run, against what wasn't being loaded under the new vista drivers. It never happened. Maybe one of our local "boffin" will take another look at this. I hope.

Sure enough -- Janes F/A-18 works pretty good. I'm upgrading right now to Windows 7 HOME 64 bit, and all I had to do was go with the XP sp2 compatibility settings. Worked fine.

Tried using Win 98/ME compatibility, that didn't work.

All I have to do now is replace/swap files in and out so I have it the way I like it -- missions, campaigns, movies, etc. But in a week or so I ought to be back into it.

Ripcord

I was curious, after hearing that somebody ran USAF in win 7, so I installed Fighters Anthology in win95 compatibility mode, and then ran the exe in that same win95 mode. Work fine, actually. Looked like hell, colors out of whack, but it flew just like it did back in the day. That was something I couldn't do in XP, so I thought it was worthy of mentioning.

Ripcord

Hey - thought I would weigh in on this as I'm an old school janes.ea.com F-15 onliner...

Hopefully, with what I have "achieved," we can get to a closer working version of this. I managed to figure out the trick to get ALL the menus working, enough so where you can get into flight. The only thing that doesn't work 100% of the time is normal graphics. They are all out of whack, but randomly, sometimes they are spot-on....Here are the steps I followed:

-Copied files from the F-15 cd into a folder on my desktop
-Ran setup.exe in windows xp service pack 2 compatibility mode
-Installed the V1.17 patch using windows xp SP2 compatibility mode
-Found the .exe, which was in my C:/Janes/F15 folder, right clicked it, and marked it to run in windows xp SP2 compatability mode
-Started the game
-At this point, the menu was static and did not move, yet you could still guess and click places
-To fix the menu, press alt-control-delete, choose task manager, which brings you out of the game to your desktop, and then INSTANTLY click on the game icon in your taskbar, which brings the game back up with all of the menus instantly fixed. Crazy, huh?
-The only way the game would work for me is if I had the graphics running via the software option - using my real primary hardware crashed the game
-You should be able to choose a mission and fly it, but the graphics are usually crap 90% of the time
-If the menus ever "freeze" again, just do alt-ctrl-delete, choose task manager, and then go right back into the game to fix them again (such as when you exit a flight, the menus will crap out again, but you can just re-apply the trick)
-When I tried to alt-ctrl-delete trick IN FLIGHT to see if it would fix my graphics, it locked my entire game/system, and I had to end task every time I did this.


I saw the real (albeit low-end) graphics for ONE out of 5 flights I did (and boy was it a sight for sore eyes!). There is probably a similar trick like the alt-ctrl-delete menu fix, which will kickstart the graphics. Somebody should try out my steps to see if you can recreate the menu fix and post if it works for you, which we can then assume is most likely a universal menu-fix for windows 7. Next stop: finding a graphics fix!

Let me know!

Using Windows 7 Professional x64

-Matt2001_131st from the days of old

Update:

I have it fully working now. After about 15-30 seconds of the "bad" graphics, it just naturally fixes itself and magically looks decent. Whenever I fly instant action/single player/even multi-player, the graphics just go back to normal after a few seconds. The only place they wouldn't fix themself would be when I flew a few training missions. For some reason, they never kick-started. Anyways, although it is a bit rough and inconvenient, Janes F-15 does INDEED work with Windows 7!!!!! Windows XP SP2 compatibility mode seemed to work the best for me and my tests. I even went online and flew from the black base to the green base when I hosted my own session.

Cool, cool stuff! Somebody try this out and let me know if it works for you. Also, remember, after I patched to V1.17, I still had to use "software" in the graphics option for this to work. The moment I chose primary display driver, my game crashed. It might be different per graphics card, however, so good luck!

If somebody wants to test out online with me, I'd be game. Shoot me a note at burns_matt at hot mail dot com if I don't reply in a timely manner to this post.

Hi - me again. I apparently live under a rock or something, but I had never heard of zeckensack's glide wrapper found at zeckensack.de/glide/

I was just poking around some of the other forums and luckily found a reference to it.

Anyways, I installed this wrapper and saw a new display selection within the graphics option menu for the 3DFX. I selected it, ran a test flight, and my graphics were instantly working and maxed out as far as Janes F-15 can get. It looked absolutely stunning for a 10+ year old game.

From what I read, how well the wrapper works highly depends on what graphics card you have, but it is at least another option to get F-15 up and running.

If you have any questions, just let me know.

No matter what, I can't seem to get the menus up and working correctly, even trying the Task Manager trick. However, once into flight mode, the sim seems to work great. BTW, I'm running on Home Premium 32-bit.

Dang, I was realy hoping that task manager trick would work for everybody since it seems to work so well for me. I just find it odd that when I do the trick, the menus work EXACTLY like they should to begin with, which leads me to believe there is still hope for a better fix for the issue. Thanks for posting your results.

Same here. Out of 35 trials I had three succesful attempts, which brought the menu fully functional to the screen.

What videocards are you guys using? I have a nVidia 8800GT/Win7 Home Premium 32bit.

Jens

I'm temporarily using an onboard video card (Radeon 4200) until I order a new one since my 7900gs currently blew out. I will not be happy if the new video card I get makes me lose this capability..lol. I guess if all else fails, whenever I want to play this game, I'd use the onboard since I know it works.

It's weird how you had 3 successful attempts. It ALMOST wants to comply, yet it doesn't! Once I get my new video card, I'll post my results, as I will most likely get an nvidia as well.