Either way this seems to give new life to a game that started to only work on a virtual PC.

Hi KGB,

Must admit I just uploaded the 1.02 patch without checking first. I have however loaded the K4 SH because the units were tested by the community and almost universally accepted when it was at it's height.

Game seems stable. Has anyone tried multiplayer? Do we need something like ICQ or Battle HQ to get past our local routers?

To expand a little more it appears to be the base game, without the 1.02 patch, KHeroes or Stormheim units.

No idea if it breaches GOG's terms but have successfully installed the 3 patches.

Next I want to test the multiplayer if I can find someone in the UK time zone to work with.

I noticed warlords dlr for sale here www.gog.com/game/warlords_iii_darklords_rising

It says is works on windows 10. Given the trouble we all had keeping it going, do you know anything about this version and whether it works without modification including internet play? does it have the stormheim and K units? does it still need the -nosound switch etc

I still have the original game but was wondering if there was some point in buying this version to get back into multiplayer games?

Regards
Lord Nytram

Tim, is your e-mail address still an airmail one?
If so I'll drop you a line directly.
Regards
Martyn

Having updated to Windows 10, Warlords seems to run in a stable way on my PC again. Anyone up for some PBEM games using K4Sh units?

Not keen on using Last Citadel as my virus checker doesn't appear to like the site.

I had this problem occasionally under XP and it was dealt with sometimes by exiting the game and restarting. Cometimes closing warlords and reopening and sometimes with a reboot when it was persistent.

Under Windows 7 I always have this problem. A solution I found was to run a batch file that closes explorer.exe (and restarts it again once I close the batch file). Basically I start the game by clicking the usual warlords shortcut, then before selecting single or multiplayer I run the batch file. Then start and play the game. Once finished I close a dummy programme started by teh batch file to restart explorer.exe. Don't know why this works but the game is much more stable. I also use the usual -nosound and -wincursor switches but have no compatibility mode boxes ticked. This may work on your system too? Found this solution when looking for ways to play Master of Orion 2 (my dummy programme) on windows 7. Guess the batch file can be amended to actually run warlords instead after closing explorer.exe but I can't seem to get the programming right in the batch file to do this correctly.


Regards
Lord Nytram