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Battlekruse Mar 14, 2021 @ 9:53am
Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat - Windows
Sorry to ask.

But I know there is a lot of old gamers here which also have played the Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat back in 1995.

I still have the orignale green CD-ROM with the game, but I cant get it to work on Windows 10 and I really want to play. I have manage to get Warhammer: Dark Omen to work. But to be fair I would rather like to play Shadow of the Horned Rat again. I notices its was also in the GOG shop with a DOS BOX version.

But is some way you can get the old CD-ROM version of Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat to work again on Windows 10 ?.
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Originally posted by Falaris:
It will not run on win 10 no matter how you massage it, you'll need an emulator.

GOG uses dosbox, and they do that because it works, and is free.
https://www.dosbox.com/
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-=Dial Nine Eleven=- Mar 14, 2021 @ 10:23am 
It wont run in compatibility mode?
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Craig_Lennon Mar 14, 2021 @ 3:12pm 
No idea about the CD Version... Not had a disk drive for a number of years now...but the GOG one worked fine for me. Fantastic game! it's what got me to download the Total War Games!

Edit - I think I only paid £4.00 for it too on GOG
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chickabumpbump Mar 14, 2021 @ 4:48pm 
Isn’t that game so idiotically, don’t lose a single man, difficult
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yojimbo1111 Mar 14, 2021 @ 5:04pm 
have you tried running it with Vista compatibility? maybe install it into the Program Files(x86) to run it as 32-bit program
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Hellvis Mar 15, 2021 @ 6:56am 
Shadow of The Horned Rat, truly a classic.
I have tried to install and then run it on Win 7 and 10 from original CD to no avail, and later bought it on GOG.
GOG version of SoTHR is identical to the PC CD version. The game was only released on Windows (3.1/95) and PSX, there is no DOS release.
On some machines it freezes on "prepare for battle" screen, but there is a solution: analyze waiting chain in Task Manager and then end the tasks that cause the game to freeze.
In my opinion, if someone is patient enough to endure the difficulty of this game, then he's patient enough to do this tiny bit of troubleshooting :D
It's totally worth the hassle.
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Battlekruse Mar 18, 2021 @ 10:09am 
When I put the WHSOTHR CD-ROM into the PC I get a error that it is not compatible.

Something that it is not working with a 64-bit version of Windows 10.

Error ID: 193
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Ghadaro Mar 18, 2021 @ 10:21am 
Originally posted by yojimbo1111:
have you tried running it with Vista compatibility? maybe install it into the Program Files(x86) to run it as 32-bit program

If compatibility settings work for it, it would need to be set to Win95 with something like 256 colour rather than vista.
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DodoGeo Mar 18, 2021 @ 12:21pm 
Originally posted by Battlekruse:
Sorry to ask.

But I know there is a lot of old gamers here which also have played the Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat back in 1995.

I still have the orignale green CD-ROM with the game, but I cant get it to work on Windows 10 and I really want to play. I have manage to get Warhammer: Dark Omen to work. But to be fair I would rather like to play Shadow of the Horned Rat again. I notices its was also in the GOG shop with a DOS BOX version.

But is some way you can get the old CD-ROM version of Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat to work again on Windows 10 ?.

Just buy it on GOG.com, works like a charm without problems.
It costs 6$ and goes for even cheaper during sales.
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Craig_Lennon Mar 18, 2021 @ 12:23pm 
Originally posted by chickabumpbump:
Isn’t that game so idiotically, don’t lose a single man, difficult

It's very, very difficult. The main problem is your magic almost never works. You get such an OP spell in Amber Spear from the Amber Wizard but it almost NEVER works. This makes certain enemies almost impossible to defeat. Complete dice roll.

Still a great game though.
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Falaris Mar 18, 2021 @ 12:38pm 
It will not run on win 10 no matter how you massage it, you'll need an emulator.

GOG uses dosbox, and they do that because it works, and is free.
https://www.dosbox.com/
Last edited by Falaris; Mar 18, 2021 @ 12:39pm
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Hellvis Mar 20, 2021 @ 6:58am 
Originally posted by Falaris:
It will not run on win 10 no matter how you massage it, you'll need an emulator.

GOG uses dosbox, and they do that because it works, and is free.
https://www.dosbox.com/

Shadow of The Horned Rat runs on my Win 10 without any problem after downloading from GOG. It's NOT a DOS program, and doesn't require DOSBox (unless you want to install Win 95 via DOSBox, but it's an overkill). It's a Win 95 application and GOG guys made it Win 10 compatible.
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Falaris Mar 20, 2021 @ 7:21am 
Originally posted by Hellvis:
Originally posted by Falaris:
It will not run on win 10 no matter how you massage it, you'll need an emulator.

GOG uses dosbox, and they do that because it works, and is free.
https://www.dosbox.com/

Shadow of The Horned Rat runs on my Win 10 without any problem after downloading from GOG. It's NOT a DOS program, and doesn't require DOSBox (unless you want to install Win 95 via DOSBox, but it's an overkill). It's a Win 95 application and GOG guys made it Win 10 compatible.

That's GOG, not the original disks version, and by reports, they used DOSbox to do it.
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Hellvis Mar 20, 2021 @ 7:25am 
Originally posted by Falaris:
Originally posted by Hellvis:

Shadow of The Horned Rat runs on my Win 10 without any problem after downloading from GOG. It's NOT a DOS program, and doesn't require DOSBox (unless you want to install Win 95 via DOSBox, but it's an overkill). It's a Win 95 application and GOG guys made it Win 10 compatible.

That's GOG, not the original disks version, and by reports, they used DOSbox to do it.

I've also got the CD version and played years ago on Win 98. It's not a DOS program, believe me. It doesn't want to run on Win 10 from the disk as the installer is 16-bit (i think)
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DasaKamov Mar 20, 2021 @ 7:30am 
Yeah, decades-old games made for different operating systems tend to not work well with modern machines, even with compatability switches. Sites like GOG actually put in a lot of work to change the structure of older games to be compatible on today's hardware, and even then, it can be hit-or-miss (c.f. GOG's long struggle with Interstate '76 and how that game prompted them to implement their "no-questions-asked" refund policy).

Like the others suggested, your best bet is to bite the bullet and spend the 6$ to get the compatible version of SotHR off GOG, if you're really craving to play it.
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Falaris Mar 20, 2021 @ 7:42am 
Originally posted by Hellvis:
Originally posted by Falaris:

That's GOG, not the original disks version, and by reports, they used DOSbox to do it.

I've also got the CD version and played years ago on Win 98. It's not a DOS program, believe me. It doesn't want to run on Win 10 from the disk as the installer is 16-bit (i think)

It's from 1995. Win 98 was backwards compatible and was actually useful for running games on, sort of, but if you wanted to run it on win 95, you would use DOS. Win 95 ran 'over' DOS, they're not discrete entities. (Compatibility mode doesn't usually do the trick.). I remember messing around with autoexec.bat and all that crap.

With that said, I haven't actually tried running W:SOTHR, and if it runs in compatibility mode, that would be nice. Surprising, but nice.
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