OLd game not working on windows 8

mafia97 · Apr 19, 2013

Hi guys,
I wanted to rekindle my love for cricket games by playing old game BRian lara cricket 07 on my windows 8 system.
The problem is that the game is not compatible with windows 8 system , so it is giving an error of " The Application was unable to load properly and 0x00000007b " .
I searched and this error is because on windows 8 and no compatibility settings work for it

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Please help guys i really want to play this game .

RCoon · Apr 19, 2013

mafia97 said:
Hi guys,
I wanted to rekindle my love for cricket games by playing old game BRian lara cricket 07 on my windows 8 system.
The problem is that the game is not compatible with windows 8 system , so it is giving an error of " The Application was unable to load properly and 0x00000007b " .
I searched and this error is because on windows 8 and no compatibility settings work for it .
Please help guys i really want to play this game .

Use a Virtual machine?

RejZoR · Apr 19, 2013

Search for a No-CD patch for this game. Sometimes they fix compatibility issues with older games (including such crashes, especially on newer systems...). I remember fixing many games during Win98->WinXP transition and also later with WinXP->WinVista/7 transition.

mafia97 · Apr 19, 2013

RCoon said:
Use a Virtual machine?

But i usually record the gameplays , wont the virtual machine hamper that.
And is there no windows XP mode in windows 8 , which was there in windows 7.

mafia97 · Apr 19, 2013

RejZoR said:
Search for a No-CD patch for this game. Sometimes they fix compatibility issues with older games (including such crashes, especially on newer systems...). I remember fixing many games during Win98->WinXP transition and also later with WinXP->WinVista/7 transition.

Tried one now , will not post a link here of that.
Same error

ShiBDiB · Apr 19, 2013

either use a virtual machine or your sol..

You should be able to use XSplit to record a screen area and be able to capture anything in the virtual machine

mafia97 · Apr 19, 2013

ShiBDiB said:
either use a virtual machine or your sol..

You should be able to use XSplit to record a screen area and be able to capture anything in the virtual machine

Is there windows XP mode for windows 8??

stinger608 · Apr 19, 2013

mafia97 said:
Is there windows XP mode for windows 8??

I don't believe there is however windows 8 is set up already to run a virtual machine. Of course you will have to have a copy of xp with a key.

NdMk2o1o · Apr 19, 2013

Good luck even running it in a vm, GPU virtualisation is virtually non existent, I wouldn't think it would run well at all especially as it's a 2007 game. Why not create a dual boot slipstreamed XP install alongside Windows 8 for legacy games?

mafia97 · Apr 20, 2013

stinger608 said:
I don't believe there is however windows 8 is set up already to run a virtual machine. Of course you will have to have a copy of xp with a key.

Can you explain me how to do that.
ANd i dont want to go dual boot just for one game ,too much hassle

lyndonguitar · Apr 20, 2013

mafia97 said:
Can you explain me how to do that.
ANd i dont want to go dual boot just for one game ,too much hassle

you don't have to dual boot, virtual machine means running xp inside windows 8. Do you know the "yo dawg meme"? its like that

Google "VMWare"

mafia97 · Apr 20, 2013

lyndonguitar said:
you don't have to dual boot, virtual machine means running xp inside windows 8. Do you know the "yo dawg meme"? its like that

Google "VMWare"

I have VMware , But windows 7 had a xp mode in which we could boot directly into windows xp without any third party software and the VIrtual OS shared all the resources of System.
Is there anything like this on windows 8?

lyndonguitar · Apr 20, 2013

afaik windows 8 doesnt have a windows xp mode, so you have to use a program like VMWare.

EDIT: just found this out, maybe it would help http://lifehacker.com/5965889/how-to-run-windows-xp-for-free-in-windows-8

mafia97 · Apr 20, 2013

Wait let me try this

Thanks and kudos to you
EDIT: DID all the things required but virtual box in not willing to open VHD files
EDIT2: Finally got the vitual machine working , but it doesnt support VIdeo memory so it doesnt work.

any other solution?

mafia97 · Apr 20, 2013

This is the result whne i run game exe in dependecies manager.
Any solution.
I learned this from here : http://msoos.wordpress.com/2010/09/11/0xc000007b-error-solution/

Kreij · Apr 20, 2013

mafia97 said:
And is there no windows XP mode in windows 8 , which was there in windows 7.

Right click on exe -> Properties -> Compatibility tab -> Checkbox to run in compatibilty mode and select OS

Does that not work in Windows 8? Never had to use it.

Frick · Apr 20, 2013

Kreij said:
Right click on exe -> Properties -> Compatibility tab -> Checkbox to run in compatibilty mode and select OS

Does that not work in Windows 8? Never had to use it.

This. It's not really an old game, if it doesn't work with 8 I think the game itself is to blame.

mafia97 · Apr 20, 2013

Frick said:
This. It's not really an old game, if it doesn't work with 8 I think the game itself is to blame.

Did that , doesnt work, no error at all , nothing, just doesnt load.
FIrst thing i tried :cool:

TRWOV · Apr 20, 2013

You can use the W7 XP Mode through VirtualBox in W8. The W7 XP mode installer has a VHD file, extract it with 7zip and run with VB.

Haven't tried using games though.

mafia97 · Apr 20, 2013

TRWOV said:
You can use the W7 XP Mode through VirtualBox in W8. The W7 XP mode installer has a VHD file, extract it with 7zip and run with VB.

Haven't tried using games though.

I wrote that in above post ,that didnt work

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Not enough video memory was given

TRWOV · Apr 20, 2013

Might this help: How to: Play Windows Games on a VirtualBox - YouTu...

mafia97 · Apr 20, 2013

TRWOV said:
Might this help: How to: Play Windows Games on a VirtualBox - YouTu...

sawe the video , we need to run windows xp in safe mode with guest applications running , but i dont want to get into so much hassle as i have my friends system also to make this game work.
We were planning a LAN tournament as this is the only cricket game we own that supports lan

Frick · Apr 20, 2013

How about installing XP on a seperate drive/partition and dual boot? Sounds like that is the way to go. Any old HDD will do for that purpose.

TRWOV · Apr 20, 2013

Frick said:
How about installing XP on a seperate drive/partition and dual boot? Sounds like that is the way to go. Any old HDD will do for that purpose.

+1, you would only need to press F8 at boot.

mafia97 · Apr 20, 2013

I dont have any extra HDD
EDIT: Looking at other cricket games available

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