Nocturne blast from the past: Windows 7?

[ITPaladin]

Many Google searches on how to install this in Windows 7 are still leaving me with no answers.

http://thespookhouse.deviantart.com/journal/How-To-Get-Nocturne-working-312184684

http://dc8p.blogspot.com/2010/11/how-to-install-nocturne-on-xp-install.html

http://www.neoseeker.com/forums/18/t1552555-nocturne-on-windows-7/

http://www.gog.com/forum/general/windows_7_and_nocturne/post16

http://www.overclock.net/t/686531/nocturne-in-win-7

I see some people get it to install but it crashes, or there are problems displaying, etc.

My problem is I can't even get it to install.

I click the setup.exe, and the setupn.exe process just sits in memory after I click Install on the Nocturne screen that comes up. The black screen vanishes and nothing happens.

I would prefer to be able to do this from W7 as I wanted to use other applications in W7 with this and not install VMWare with 98/XP.

I am using W7 x64 Pro.

 

[AdamK47]

I have it installed on my PC. I'll try it when I get home and let you know. If I remember correctly, I did have some problems with it, but can't remember exactly what it was.

Usually when I have a problem installing an older game on a newer OS I install it inside an XP VM and then move the game over to the host OS. After that I export the registry entries from the VM and import them to the host OS.

 

[ITPaladin]

I wound up installing xp 64 and 2k on vm's and they went in. The xp64 must have taken like 2-5 minutes before it actually started to install. I thought it had hung up and failed like w7 but then it suddenly started going.

2k is listed on the manual as a supported OS. It went right away.

I have yet to actually test them though.

 

[ITPaladin]

Bump...still can't get the installer to even run on 7.

Anyone?

 

[AdamK47]

Bumping this thread. Tried out the game recently. The game plays OK in Windows 7 x64. I have really long load times for some reason though. Takes two minutes to start the game and a few minutes to load any level. Not sure why.

 

[ITPaladin]

You are lucky to even get it installed.
I had no luck so w2k/xp inVMware player was the only way.
I will try w8.

Gog.com has a Nocturne petition somewhere to add your vote to fix it.

 

[AdamK47]

I've had the game installed for quite a while now. First on Vista and then retained on Windows 7 when I performed the upgrade.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2294934