you can download the gme on the following website

https://wiredforwar.org/topic/167/announcing-community-patch-1-5-godsend

Hello, any way to play this game in 2024?

i still want to play it

i want to play it on win 10

Speed run (honestly and with using of bugs of game) of campaing and not only this!
+
A complete walkthrough of the campaign without the use of first person mode
and
(!) a complete walkthrough of the campaign without building military units, bugs, cheats and first person mode.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLob-jWpcs_yw8b0De4q9mVt_3Wwbde1Qg

hi everyone, i really like the game but when i try to control the robots the fps drops way too much, how can i solve this

Best Game

i miss this game i have a vrutal machine to play machines

I loooooved playing this game as a kid gonna reinstall it such a great game for its time. I wish they kept going with the series

wiredforwar.org appears to be online again

WFW community site is broken.

The game work in the Win10?

Anyone can give-me a link to download the game? please?

make a remake...i want it.. plzzz, activison please make a new game based on this

is there a link for the game :/ lost my cd.. wish this game was on steam

Absolutely fantastic game ! I sure would like to see a remake

I'm having problems with a game resolution, is there any way to fix it?

I just saw a Steam ad for Executive Assault and it made me remember the amazing Machines. I haven't played EA yet, but I thought someone here would appreciate the info.

Still an all time favourite. Hope HSA's right and it comes to steam some day. That would be beyond awesome. :)

i love that game so much!
hope i can bring it to run unter win10!
see u on the battlefield \m/

anybody, know that if machines run on windows 8.0 and 8.1?

damn I wish that machines 2 would come out i would like to help but don't know nothing about programming. Done a bit of Graphic design but not much more... I'm saying good luck to wired for war. May the machines guide you.

http://wiredforwar.org for the game (FREE!) and mods (ALSO FREE)

Help us make this game even greater!


We have access to all the 3D-models, so if there is any Unity5 expert out there that can help us, please please please contact us! Machines 2 is a possibility!

Hello there!
You might not know me, I'm Hwaldar Richards. I've been hosting Machines files on my youtube channel for a while (both uploaded by Vash and myself). If you ever need them just send a message! It's pretty much the base game files with extra stuff included, the game works perfectly fine on a Win7 64-bit PC.

Anyone know how to fix some invisible textures and missing music?

just found this group. i loved the game when i had it!

Just FYI - http://wiredforwar.org/ has been resurrected.

Hello all! Yet another Machines player here- I have had it running on my old Win XP Pro for a while now- and only just found this group. Nice to see there is effort in trying to get it to run on modern systems, my XP may not last that much longer, but we will see :).

ill provide the d3drm.dll file, so you dont have to look for one and worry bout its validity. ive scanned mine with norton, kapersky, malwarebytes, and spybot search and destroy, its clean on all of em. download it from http://www.adrive.com/public/mfuyUs/d3drm.dll or from {LINK REMOVED}http://www.mediafire.com/download/13k65kajqq4pmq0/d3drm.dll and place it in the same directory as the machines exe file (Acclaim Entertainment\Machines) and in the data folder just to be safe (Acclaim Entertainment\Machines\data) after that reboot your machine.


ONLY DO THE FOLLOWING IF THE ABOVE DOES'NT WORK:
copy paste the file into your C:\Windows\System32 and then reboot your machine.

thats an easy fix. as its told you you are missing the d3drm.dll file which was used by windows xp and below as part of direct 3d (from what i can find) from vista onwards this file at least is no longer used by windows and was removed. solution in next post

Alright I figured outy the problem, a different program was trying to run the cd.
So i've gotten it installed and applied the patch, now I have a new problem vlol
When i try and run the game it get a system error stating that d3drm.dll is missing.
Any ideas anyone?

Gday guys, can't say how awesome it is that there is a group for machines!
I've downloaded the game, created a vertual drive :D and attached the ISO image to it but i cant install the game. When i click on setup up my mouse icon displays the 'thinking' wheel for a minute then does nothing.
Any idieas?

i remember loving this game. hella hard though!

i still have the original disks for it!

Nevermind, I got it to work I downloaded rens machines folder! can't believe I'm playing this again! :D

Hello, I'm having a little problem...glad this group has been posting recently aswell! I downloaded Machines:Wired For War on ISOzone on my windows 8.1 and when I get to run the game all it says "This app can't run on your PC" I tried everything compatibility and run as administrator...nothing :( anyone who has a patch or something that would be appreciated.

how do I burn the image to a CD
I have the Zip file that ren9999 posted
I'm relay love this game and wood like to play

@wraith. i assume you are using a virtual cd drive. the music wont work because machines only looks in the D:\ directory for the music files. you have to change the virtual drive letter to that for music to work. but if you have a actual cd/dvd drive you would need to change that to something else first. look here: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/tipstricks/f/change-drive-letter.htm

Wait wait, you got 1080p to work? SHARE YOUR SECRETS. The resolution in my settings screen only goes up to 1024 or something... and when I try to set it higher in the registry it goes to the lowest setting ._.
Also, I still don't know how to get the music to work. Not even sure if I have the music files lol.

I also miss the menu transitions… I remember it was really cool moving around this pcb board from menu to menu, but now these animations are so fast we barely notice them.

And it’s quite curious the way they did the wheels on the game: just a simple front and back texture with a black plane always facing the viewer in the middle. It’s so simple, yet makes the wheels appear as round as in nowadays games; I wonder why I never saw this technique used in other games.

Hey guys! I just got nostalgic and decided to fire up Machines after all these years.
All I need to do was install the game, the Win 2k/XP patch and get this d3drm.dll Microsoft decided to remove from Windows 7; didn’t even need to set any compatibility mode.
And wow, wasn’t I surprised to find such an old game supported and ran just fine at 1080p resolution!
I also used _inmm together with Digital CD Player to get the music switching and looping correctly.
Now if only there was a way to disable the LOD models, or at least increase the distance at which they’re drawn…
Because the game has quite detailed models, but you gotta zoom in on your units/buildings for the game to switch to them.
Back in the days, this feature must have been really important to maintain performance and the player probably didn’t even notice any difference due to the lower resolutions used, but today it’s just annoying… XP

Hey guys, Gameuser10 here from wiredforwar.org , bureacraut of the Wired for War Wikia http://wiredforwar.wikia.com/ . Just gonna drop this here, still lots of cool stuff left behind:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040604171559/http://www.acclaim.com/games/machines/index.html

Hello people! I played machines when i was a little funny kid, i'd love to play it again :D thanks for the support you give concerning the compatibility.
I'm going to install this game right now and try out to see if it works. :D

ok to reset resolution to 1920x1080 (it works fine on my pc) just edit with regedit HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Acclaim Entertainment\Machines\Screen Resolution

after changing the resolution the game does not starts anymore, just a black screen ._."

I had it years ago and I've installed it again today on mi Windows 8 x64 machine. It starts (not always) and it's very slow and with lot of fuchsia graphic gliteches... Any solution?

as of now these 2 still work and (at least for me) neither should take more than 45 min to download, but that depends on your internet.
{LINK REMOVED}http://www.mediafire.com/download/4wmypoopl5o2jju/machines.zip
http://www.adrive.com/public/vwqYeW/machines.zip

whats in the zip file:
-- the image files - i personally made these from original machines disks using Alcohol 120%, which i did actually pay for
-- what is basically a digital version of the manual that came with the retail version of the game (made by using a scanner on the manual, its all easily readable)
-- the only game trainer in existence for this game (it gives you BMU's, however many you put in the text box up to 9999)
--instructions in the .txt file.
only thing not included was powerISO, which is what i recommend using for these images (http://www.poweriso.com/download.htm)

if there are any problems open a discussion/send me a message

Hi guys, another machines player here!
I remember that on the old wiredforwar.org site there was a discussion about the developement of an inde version of the game, that even reached some really aerly alpha stages (just a map with a scout that you could command). any idea/info on how that project ended up?

I folks, I've checked out ren9999 7thFeb2014 comment and found that Rapid share is limiting standard accounts to just 1gb of downloads per day. as it happens the link given is slightly over a gig of data and so isn't available unless you have a paid membership for rapid share, not cheap £40 a month is a ridiculous price for the average person to pay. What is worse is that as of the 1stJuly2014 Rapid share will be removing the standard account service and becoming exclusively a premium service group.
Has anyone got these files available for sharing from another source?

if anybody is having any trouble getting machines to run start a discussion.
yes it works on win7. im reinvestigating how i got it to work. will post in the discussion tap with the solution

@misterdel to the best of my knowledge yes. and as to getting it to work... install the xp patch and run in compatability mode for win xp. if that doesnt work start a discussion in the discussions tab

i have all the machines stuff here: http://rapidshare.com/share/339C036AB5163EFC67F1903410097BC8
(even scans of the manual that would come with the game)
i made those images my self and tested them on 3 different pcs on 2 different operating systems (winxp and win7)

im not sure if i remember how but ill try and pm you too