I think there is a thread somewhere here on the forums on how to play the game on Win 7. Didn't look into it myself, however, since I really prefer - and enjoy - playing it on my old XP.

I have a patch for running this game on modern CPUs and OSes, if anyone is interested: https://yadi.sk/d/nsVm2zk93Mkaeu
It was made for the Russian version, but I think it should work with others, too.

Thank you for the link, Iurii.
Is it a Russian fan of Cryo games who made the patch?
Are there patches for other Cryo "Legends" series games like Odyssey: The Search for Ulysses and Arthur's Knights 1 and 2?

Thanks Iurii. Maybe someday when I am feeling ambitious I will try this out. I was never able to play the game in my 98 or XP or Virtual PC running 98. It would not work. However, reading about some of the gameplay that Zurreen has written, I'm not sure I want to try to tackle the game.

Although, Norton is saying it is a really bad site!!

It appears to be a hosting site.
It probably hosts whatever people upload to it, and some of that may indeed be bad stuff.
Unless the site itself has infected ads, the particular download is probably OK.
If you're worried, you could try it in a VM.

Is Norton giving any details about what the problem is or just categorizing anything to do with the site as bad?

I had not downloaded the file. I had just clicked where it said "view" and "zip". I don't remember the verbiage and it is not having the same reaction now when I click on those. It scared me away from hitting the download button though.

I don't have VM installed on any currently used computers so won't be doing that.

Not quite a fan, but a caring representative of the technical support of the Russian company that had translated those games
He made those patches in 2003 when it became clear that Cryo is no more and Dreamcatcher won't do anything to help.


Yes! Do you want them? I think I used to share some of those patches in some other threads.


That's not a site, just a file-hosting part of my mail account. Should be no harm there at all, but I don't know how it appears to non-Russian users.
Sorry, I did not know how else to upload the patch.

I have found the archived version of the site with the patches with some explanation: https://web.archive.org/web/20071005041622/http://www.slavic.ru/games/techsup.htm#all_en
But it seems that the patches themselves are not archived, so you can't download from there.

No need to apologize Iurii. I think it's great you try to help us play some older games. I am not at all tech savvy so am nervous about doing a lot of things.

If there are patches for Arthur's Knights 1 and 2, I would be very interested!

I have only been able to get those games running in one of two ways: my Windows 98 computer, which is now sadly long gone; and in a virtual machine running Windows 98 with hardware virtualization enabled in the BIOS. On Windows XP and Windows ME, I would get the blue screen of death.

I would also be interested in Odyssey: Search for Ulysses.

Honestly, I would fall down in a dead faint if *any* of these games could be cajoled into working any other way. They seem to require a very specific environment or else you are just plain out of luck.

Oh, I do hope I didn't scare you away from the game. I was just talking about some of the glitches - only 3 actually, and all connected with moving some crates/boxes. But the fact that I still continue to play the game, and all the way through!, every few years, should tell you just how much fun it is, in spite of those few glitches.

When you say modern, do you mean Win 7? Do we download this patch from the link you have given? Does it also fix the glitches I have been discussing in this thread?

Sure would be great!

That's amazing.


Yes. I'd like to archive them.


Thanks for the link. I'll see if I can get Google's translator to cooperate.

Well, by combining the aforementioned patch with DgVoodoo and with some editing of the INI file I have managed to run 'Arthur Knights' on Windows 7 x64 in almost the ideal way

The patch fixes the inability to run the game on CPUs younger than Pentium III, DgVoodoo fixes the game graphics broken on nVidia, and editing INI makes it possible to copy all the CDs to the hard drive as disk switching is broken in later Windows versions as well.

'Odyssee' should certainly work with the game in any language: https://yadi.sk/d/-0SoITlz4lXpA

I am not so sure for 'Atrhur's Knights', but please try this links: First game, Second game.

Please tell if it works!


Yes, why not!


I am not sure, to tell the truth. Don't remember those glitches!

How would I go about editing the ini file for the Arthur's Knights games? I have some idea, but not totally. I would really like to try this out. Playing the games without having to swap CDs would be even better.

Marian, I think arthknia.ini and arthknib.ini in SYSTEM folder should read:

[Install]
Type=./

And then you can copy the three disks to that the installed game directory.

Terrific! Thanks so much.