Just got a PNY nVidia 9800GT 1GB DDR3 video card and everything still works exactly the way it did with my old radeon onboard card. I start the game, hit alt-control-delete, click show task manager (which brings me to my desktop), then click on the minimized Janes F-15 game icon in the task bar, and all of the menus come back up fully functional.

Windows 7 64 Bit
PNY nVidia 9800GT 1GB DDR3
AMD 4600+ (my current bottleneck!)
4 GB PC6400 Corsair Memory

I've made several attempts and never got the menus working. I can get the initial menu up just fine, but sub menus are just partially drawn. I can fish around for buttons and sometimes get something to go. I did get in the air once, but the colors were all wrong and the game crashed after about a minute or two.

Win7 ultimate 64
GTX285
i7-920
4 GB ram

I have a very similar set up to yours (win7 pro 64bit and 285 card), and I was just about to write saying "thanks" to the poster who mentioned the 'task manager' trick because I was able to get up and running last night.

I installed from the cd, installed the patch, then ran the sim. the menus quickly became unresponsive, so I tried switching to the task manager, then immediately hitting cancel, then I'd get back to the menus and they'd be working. It's not ideal, of course, because the menus quit working after a little bit and you end up 'task managering' way too many times (setting the options were a lot of fun as you can imagine).

But once in the sim it ran really well, at the least the few single missions I tried. I installed the .84c glide wrapper, that worked well too.

too bad you can't get it going, figured I'd post because your system is so close to mine.

Hi All,

I have Jane's F-15 running on Windows 7 64bit Professional. Running in compatibility mode, using WinXP service pack 2. Also using the Glide Wrapper. The Glide Wrapper was helpful in smoothing out the graphics. I am now trying to get anti-aliasing to smooth all the edges.

As others have noted, the menu lacks the buttons. If you click near the right bottom of the screen you can usually change screens and start a mission.

Another problem I am experiencing is a flickering panel. Hopefully I can find a solution for that.

By the way, I am running Jane's FA-18 on Windows 7 64bit Professional. I am running it in compatibility mode, using Win98. Also I am using the download, FA-18 One Click Installer Setup. Once I ran the installer, I was able to get Jane's FA-18 running stable and looking beautiful.

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Did you try to run the exe file in compatability mode? (XP sp3)
IIRC F15 runs well in xp.

Hey all!
Im glad I found this topic as I got re-interested in poping in my Jane's F15.

I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit, in a MSI GX620 laptop (nvidia 9600GTM). The installation of the cd and patch work flawless, but when I launch the game, I get the NON-WORKING menus.

The CRTL-ALT-DEL trick didn't work for me in the beginning. After a few attemps I tried to navigate ingame with bad menus. Eventually I reached the options, and miscelaneous, and managed to disable TOOL-TIPS, intro/exit VIDEOS and other things in the miscellaneous menu. After this, I can do CTRl-ALT-DEL and then just go back to the game(no need to open taskbar manager) and the menu will work !

It was so nice to see this game again, and the music in menus, oh man, brings back big memories. In game works good without glide, although you don't get the 3Dfx graphics With the GlideWrap, I'm able to select 3Dfx and get smooth frames and effects, HOWEVER, I have no I idea how to make things look sharp, everything is so blurry, the HUD, the horizon, the plane. I don't know how to change resolution (my max could be 1280x800, but it's not in the options of either the game or glidewrap).

If I try to use DirectX I get the errors when loading a mission saying "unable to load DirectDraw" or something like that. Does anybody know how to make this work?

I was also trying the trick I used to launch Fighters Anthology (YES! I'm able to play it PERFECTLY in windows 7!). Install the game, install the patch, and then create a BATCH file (new text file, and change extension to .bat) with the following lines.




The idea is to stop "explorer.exe" while the game is running, this avoids color corruptions and the game runs amazing, so amazing that i've been playing online with some friends! hehe. I tried this with F15 but doesn't do much.

Any updates please let me know, I will keep you posted also :):) cheers and hail to the best physics model in the sims industry, Jane's F15 !!!