Dude you have no idea how much you just helped me! I was so pissed when I ordered this game from Ebay and it saying I couldn't play it when I put the disc in! So many bullshit tutorials on youtube but yours is the truth bro. I appreciate it. Now im about to go play it....later.
Thanks for this and here is how to install the Council Wars expansion and all the new content (including the new videos): 1) Do exactly as described in the original video/text, then copy the modified DC folder to a secondary location. This new folder is the one all the following instructions apply to. This is important since at the very least some videos will be overwritten if you don't. 2) Insert your Council Wars CD or mount your Council Wars CD image. 3) Locate the EXPENG folder, then OPEN it and copy all its contents including the subfolders but do NOT copy the expeng folder itself, only all the content in it. 4) Paste this into your DC folder so the ENGEXP16.EXE file ends up together with the original exe files. 5) Copy the DC folder from your Council Wars CD/image and paste it over the DC folder on your hard drive, overwriting everything when asked (you can also just copy the contents of the folder but not the DC folder itself and overwrite it from within your DC folder). 6) Locate the HBNUFL.A02 file in your DC folder, open it in notepad and change the letter in it to the letter of your cd-rom drive or virtual drive. Save and close. 7) Start the game with ENGEXP16.EXE (I didn't need to modify any compatibility mode options to get it to work). The new intro video should now play and the new campaign be accessible from the main screen. This is working perfectly on my Windows 7 64-bit version.
Thomas Rotliche Thank you for the instructions. The intro video looks the same as the original game? I like the in game music for the Council Wars expansion.
Thanks I got it to install on to windows 8.1 and all I had to do was the stuff to about 4 minutes but I also have a copy of the CD. Thanks again time to enjoy this old school game.
Спасибо огромнейшее!!! У самого семерка 64-х битка! Решил вспомнить детство, игру достал и запустил, а вот именно как открыть кампанию и все остальное, не знал!!! Спасибо еще раз!!!
Game loads up doing this but the mouse pointer is invisible so it's still pretty much unplayable. Thanks anyway though. Good to see people posting solutions for old games like this.
Thank you for posting this guide. I have the original game disk and can run it using the compatibility settings/admin rights you suggested and it works if I play with the DVD running. However I would like to know how you created the mds file @1:02 to mount into Daemon Tools mentioned at the very beginning. The rest of your guide was solid and easy to understand. Cheers and have a great day!
very cool to see that it is possible to play a great game like this without having to use several programs and still have the danger does not work, good job man, I was already giving up trying to play this game again in March much my childhood: P
Hey brother, thanks a lot for the video!! I have been playing the hell out of DC for the last 6 months. However, the windows update today killed my fun. It no longer works after the update. Any suggestions?
You have no idea how much i appreciate your effort put up here, good sir! I've been using that virtual stuff on previous machines with Windows Vista, and now i don't have to stress about that no more :D Thank you so much, dear comrade!
It keeps showing me error 0xc0000022 when i try to open the game in my w10 tried everything like running in w95 compatibility and run as admin, but nothing happenend
Hey buddy, thanks for the video, I know its been a few years since you uploaded this, but do you by any chance know how to change the screen resolution when the game loads up? I've mounted the disk, campaign works fine, its just my screen seems to be zoomed in too much. Thanks in advance :D
I have a problem with the top of my screen being chopped off(you cannot see the 2 boxes with Human or Alien races at the start screen). The game plays so it is only a minor problem but it is 1 that bugs me, any advice on repositioning the window? Great upload by the way:)
Thx. For your problem^: try to use screen page settings in your video card drivers panel.. For example: 1. Change screen resolution to 800x600 or 640x480. 2. Use no scaling in drivers panel settings. And try to change scaling from monitor to GPU. 3. Change vertical position of your monitor in it's settings. 4. Update video driver.. -)
Im on windows 8.1 and it works..well almost. I get to the intro and it keeps playing like 3 seconds of the intro, then it keeps repeating it over and over and i have to restart my computer to fix it. Do you know of a way to bypass the intro scene?
I think you have to find Intro video file in Dark Colony directories and delete it.. I can't get to the DC right now because I just tuning up my new computer..
malice2kvideos You mean delete the intro scene on the disc right? i tried that and it doesnt let me, i press the delete key and nothing happens and i also tried right clicking on it and it doesnt even give me a delete option. In properties it says read-only and when i uncheck that it says i need permission, then i press continue, but for some reason it still says 'access denied'. Not sure what to do from here...
Admiral Poopy Pantz 1. Try to delete Intro.avi from DC directory on your HDD. 2. Make the image of your DC disc and delete Intro.avi from the image. There are a lot of programms that can edit cd images. I think it will solve the problem.
+Ivailo_Belov Let's look at comrade Thomas Rotliche comment: Thanks for this and here is how to install the Council Wars expansion and all the new content (including the new videos): 1) Do exactly as described in the original video/text, then copy the modified DC folder to a secondary location. This new folder is the one all the following instructions apply to. This is important since at the very least some videos will be overwritten if you don't. 2) Insert your Council Wars CD or mount your Council Wars CD image. 3) Locate the EXPENG folder, then OPEN it and copy all its contents including the subfolders but do NOT copy the expeng folder itself, only all the content in it. 4) Paste this into your DC folder so the ENGEXP16.EXE file ends up together with the original exe files. 5) Copy the DC folder from your Council Wars CD/image and paste it over the DC folder on your hard drive, overwriting everything when asked (you can also just copy the contents of the folder but not the DC folder itself and overwrite it from within your DC folder). 6) Locate the HBNUFL.A02 file in your DC folder, open it in notepad and change the letter in it to the letter of your cd-rom drive or virtual drive. Save and close. 7) Start the game with ENGEXP16.EXE (I didn't need to modify any compatibility mode options to get it to work). The new intro video should now play and the new campaign be accessible from the main screen. This is working perfectly on my Windows 7 64-bit version.
Совместимость выставлена? Дрова на видяху? Образ диска или диск в поряде? Полгода уже не проверял на 10ке - до этого работало всё как надо. Есть вариант, что после каких-либо обновлений в 10ке начало выкидывать? Просто в данный момент нет возможности проверить на своей системе.
Thanks to all you comrades! It's very good that so many people nowdays still play oldschool games & love'em!
Hi, finding that file that directed to the drive saved me... been trying this for bloody ages. Thank you dude!
;)
Dude you have no idea how much you just helped me! I was so pissed when I ordered this game from Ebay and it saying I couldn't play it when I put the disc in! So many bullshit tutorials on youtube but yours is the truth bro. I appreciate it. Now im about to go play it....later.
Thanks for this and here is how to install the Council Wars expansion and all the new content (including the new
videos):
1) Do exactly as described in the original video/text, then copy the modified DC folder to a secondary location.
This new folder is the one all the following instructions apply to. This is important since at the very least some
videos will be overwritten if you don't.
2) Insert your Council Wars CD or mount your Council Wars CD image.
3) Locate the EXPENG folder, then OPEN it and copy all its contents including the subfolders but do NOT copy the
expeng folder itself, only all the content in it.
4) Paste this into your DC folder so the ENGEXP16.EXE file ends up together with the original exe files.
5) Copy the DC folder from your Council Wars CD/image and paste it over the DC folder on your hard drive,
overwriting everything when asked (you can also just copy the contents of the folder but not the DC folder itself
and overwrite it from within your DC folder).
6) Locate the HBNUFL.A02 file in your DC folder, open it in notepad and change the letter in it to the letter of
your cd-rom drive or virtual drive. Save and close.
7) Start the game with ENGEXP16.EXE (I didn't need to modify any compatibility mode options to get it to work). The
new intro video should now play and the new campaign be accessible from the main screen.
This is working perfectly on my Windows 7 64-bit version.
Thanks a lot comrade!
Thomas Rotliche Thank you for the instructions. The intro video looks the same as the original game? I like the in game music for the Council Wars expansion.
Thank you for watching my video -)) It's good to see that a lot of people love oldschool games..
Duuuuuude, спасибо! It's such an easy fix too, no idea why people on forums never mention it.
Не знаю - может потому, что у меня диск был пиратский и там бумажка была распечатана, что надо букву диска менять. Диск 1997 года. Круть...
Thanks I got it to install on to windows 8.1 and all I had to do was the stuff to about 4 minutes but I also have a copy of the CD. Thanks again time to enjoy this old school game.
do you know how to get music working without CD in drive?
Is there any way to play with the music playing? If not is there a music file we can access to play un the background?
Спасибо огромнейшее!!! У самого семерка 64-х битка! Решил вспомнить детство, игру достал и запустил, а вот именно как открыть кампанию и все остальное, не знал!!! Спасибо еще раз!!!
Game loads up doing this but the mouse pointer is invisible so it's still pretty much unplayable. Thanks anyway though. Good to see people posting solutions for old games like this.
Thank you for posting this guide. I have the original game disk and can run it using the compatibility settings/admin rights you suggested and it works if I play with the DVD running. However I would like to know how you created the mds file @1:02 to mount into Daemon Tools mentioned at the very beginning. The rest of your guide was solid and easy to understand. Cheers and have a great day!
Thank you so much man! I still have the original disc and this worked perfectly on windows 10.
His speech pattern is adorable.
very cool to see that it is possible to play a great game like this without having to use several programs and still have the danger does not work, good job man, I was already giving up trying to play this game again in March much my childhood: P
Works for me on Windows 10 64bit. Thank You mate!
Hey brother, thanks a lot for the video!! I have been playing the hell out of DC for the last 6 months. However, the windows update today killed my fun. It no longer works after the update. Any suggestions?
Thank you comrades for your comments! Спасибо, товарищи! Рад, что смог помочь! -)
Old... but gold. Helped me out a bunch. Thanks.
You have no idea how much i appreciate your effort put up here, good sir! I've been using that virtual stuff on previous machines with Windows Vista, and now i don't have to stress about that no more :D Thank you so much, dear comrade!
Thanks man I was getting multiplayer only but fixed thanks to you, thumbs up
It keeps showing me error 0xc0000022 when i try to open the game in my w10 tried everything like running in w95 compatibility and run as admin, but nothing happenend
Hi
Thanks for video tutorial. It runs on Win10
Awesome! Everything works. Thank you very much!
Hey buddy, thanks for the video, I know its been a few years since you uploaded this, but do you by any chance know how to change the screen resolution when the game loads up? I've mounted the disk, campaign works fine, its just my screen seems to be zoomed in too much. Thanks in advance :D
I have a problem with the top of my screen being chopped off(you cannot see the 2 boxes with Human or Alien races at the start screen). The game plays so it is only a minor problem but it is 1 that bugs me, any advice on repositioning the window? Great upload by the way:)
when i did this it for some reason only lets me play with a small screen, it doesnt go to a fullscreen. Any ideas as to why?
What is the difference between 2 interactive softwares in this game.
Thx.
For your problem^: try to use screen page settings in your video card drivers panel.. For example:
1. Change screen resolution to 800x600 or 640x480.
2. Use no scaling in drivers panel settings. And try to change scaling from monitor to GPU.
3. Change vertical position of your monitor in it's settings.
4. Update video driver.. -)
Very nice! It works perfectly. Thanks a lot! :-)
Fantástico! Muchas gracias!! (Thank you very much!)
Nice!! I got as far as multiplayer only and was getting annoyed cheers
omg!! thank you, this game is great. i'm happy we can now play it on win7/64.
very usefull video
ur awesome BROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO :D im really like this game and finally i can play
bro, i have burned the files which i download from internet... but still i cant play single player... could you help me... im win 8 user
Hm, I don't try on win8... Maybe it's impossible to play Dark Colony there.
Thx now we can play full game instead of Compressed copies.
Im on windows 8.1 and it works..well almost. I get to the intro and it keeps playing like 3 seconds of the intro, then it keeps repeating it over and over and i have to restart my computer to fix it. Do you know of a way to bypass the intro scene?
I think you have to find Intro video file in Dark Colony directories and delete it.. I can't get to the DC right now because I just tuning up my new computer..
malice2kvideos You mean delete the intro scene on the disc right? i tried that and it doesnt let me, i press the delete key and nothing happens and i also tried right clicking on it and it doesnt even give me a delete option. In properties it says read-only and when i uncheck that it says i need permission, then i press continue, but for some reason it still says 'access denied'. Not sure what to do from here...
Admiral Poopy Pantz 1. Try to delete Intro.avi from DC directory on your HDD. 2. Make the image of your DC disc and delete Intro.avi from the image. There are a lot of programms that can edit cd images. I think it will solve the problem.
malice2kvideos Havent had any luck being able to delete the file or even move it. Maybe im doing something wrong, im not sure.
Спасибо большое! Вся суть была в том, чтобы поставить с d на f и все. ОС Windows 10
thanks works great
Thank You Very Much
Got thanks much!
doesnt work for me
hi
how do you add the council wars cd, could you help with that
thanks
I have only original game from 1997 & never played expansion councilwars.. So I can't hepl you. But I'll try to find expansion & look in it -)
thanks, ill keep a look out
Thanks Very Good :)
AND HOW TO PLAY DARK COLONY WITHOUT CD DISC
Thanks :)
-)))
its not working on my windows
thank you!
thanks !!!
this would be so helpful in English txt I don't know where to go im a noob haha.
how to install dark colony Council Wars pls help
+Ivailo_Belov
Let's look at comrade Thomas Rotliche comment:
Thanks for this and here is how to install the Council Wars expansion and all the new content (including the new
videos):
1) Do exactly as described in the original video/text, then copy the modified DC folder to a secondary location.
This new folder is the one all the following instructions apply to. This is important since at the very least some
videos will be overwritten if you don't.
2) Insert your Council Wars CD or mount your Council Wars CD image.
3) Locate the EXPENG folder, then OPEN it and copy all its contents including the subfolders but do NOT copy the
expeng folder itself, only all the content in it.
4) Paste this into your DC folder so the ENGEXP16.EXE file ends up together with the original exe files.
5) Copy the DC folder from your Council Wars CD/image and paste it over the DC folder on your hard drive,
overwriting everything when asked (you can also just copy the contents of the folder but not the DC folder itself
and overwrite it from within your DC folder).
6) Locate the HBNUFL.A02 file in your DC folder, open it in notepad and change the letter in it to the letter of
your cd-rom drive or virtual drive. Save and close.
7) Start the game with ENGEXP16.EXE (I didn't need to modify any compatibility mode options to get it to work). The
new intro video should now play and the new campaign be accessible from the main screen.
This is working perfectly on my Windows 7 64-bit version.
+malice2kvideos thanks
+malice2kvideos do u know active servers for multiplayer
+Ivailo_Belov No - I had never played Dark Colony MP...
I have no info about DC2 & have no DC2 itself.
I'm glad to help you! -)
Nice one my Russian Friend :)
-))))
dude thank you so much!!
После выбора Расы человека и нажатия далее выкидывает с игры... вында 10
Совместимость выставлена? Дрова на видяху? Образ диска или диск в поряде?
Полгода уже не проверял на 10ке - до этого работало всё как надо. Есть вариант, что после каких-либо обновлений в 10ке начало выкидывать? Просто в данный момент нет возможности проверить на своей системе.
don't work in windows 7 32 bits :/
I never tried to run on Win 7/8/10 x86 OS. So maybe it won't work on'em..
Спасибо друг!!!
Thank you man! -)
Не помогает на 10ке=(
-)
Maybe somebody try to make the same procedure on Win8 x64? -))
-)