How to get Wolfenstein (2009) to run on Windows 11?

[Hellhound Stephan]

I bought the game on CD. Because this game is not allowed to be sold in stores in Germany. So I bought it under the counter. With an old game I thought there could be problems installing it. I'm not deep into how to port old programs to systems that were designed for XP/Vista at the time. But on newer systems like the current Win11 now get it to work.

[tyl0413]

What problems are you having with it?

[Hellhound Stephan]

Originally posted by tyl0413:

What problems are you having with it?

The installation process is as follows.

It opens the typical windows and you have to give license agreement blah blah blah. My problem appears during the installation. The green bar feels up to about a 1/5. The following text is displayed. The registration of the component(s) is being updated. The bar will be in a few seconds of the said 1/5 of the bar.

But then it hangs and after about 10 min there is a new message. The disk has been changed externally so that the open file is no longer valid. (I have in the setup exe. At properties changed to Windows 8. With the normal setting comes the display: A non-existent device was specified).

When clicking Ok, a new window appears "Error during feature transfer
Error: -1603 Serious error during installation.
You can find more information in the Windows Installer Help (Msi.chm) or in MSDN.

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[Cuchillo_Baishan]

This is why we are being so unruly about Windows 7 on the Steam Discussions forums, many games of that time will not run on newer systems, and most likely will be lost forever... unless Microsoft decides to release new versions, but that is very much hanging in the balance really.

Consider what happened with Microsoft gem Freelancer from 2003, fans pushed hard for a new release but nothing came of it.

[Shiro Coldkeyes The Hedgehog]

I cannot get the single player to start; and I tried all compatibility modes from windows 8, 7, vista sp2, and xp sp3

It refuses to run on windows 11 pro that I have

[Twaryna]

Ok man, idk fix you your game or not, but for me help installing dxvk x32 d9x9.dll (download on github) and chose win xp sp3 compability.

[sfksfk]

you need Wolfenstein_1_2_PatchSetup
work fine under Win 11