Battlezone 1

Two questions
1) How do you get Battlezone to work on Windows 7. I get an error when I try to play. I t tells me Unhandled exception every time.

2) Is there a program that hosts games for Battlezone multiplayer games? GameRanger only hosts Battlezone II games.

1. What graphic card you have? Tech Support.

2. Bz MP is played on Anet. Servers.dat.

i get the same thing, only after i click "LAUNCH" when trying to connect to multiplayer. i can play single player fine, and i run win 7, with a intel core 2 quad processor, 2 gigs of RAM, and an 8800GTS graphics card... and i think i have directx10 or 11 (if 11 exsists yet) thanks to steam games. so i dont know what my problem is... i guess im just gonna have to find an ETA for the 1.5 patch and hope its soon. just got this game installed today and i love it.

First, welcome to Battlezone


BZ was made back in 1998 and its engine never went through an "update" to be compatible with newer computers, it was made on DX3. Ken is graciously creating the 1.5 patch (with DX 9 as the engine) so it will be playable by all modern computer systems. There are some crashes associated with the latest 1.5 BETA build, but they are being ironed out by Ken...who is not being paid to pretty much rewrite nearly all the source code of a commercial game (he does it in his free time).

The ETA of 1.5 is up in the air, remember it is only Ken. The best thing you can do to help speed up its release is beta test the latest beta-builds of 1.5 and identify any bugs you come across.

PS: If you ever want "live" support from members who might be able to help you out, check out our TeamSpeak. There's usually Spork, Guren, and BattleDroid in there. I make sporadic appearances in the evening, EST.

This sounds like a router issue...
In fullscreen HW mode? If so, it would seem to me your BZ is running fine and perhaps you need to forward ports on your router.

that might be it. but then there are some quirks in SP such as the radar everything was nothing but squares, blank ones for the N,S,E,W with no letter either. but restarting the comp i believe fixed this issue. and the beta for the patch is out allready i know this, i havent had much time to get it after getting the game installed with school and all. i'll definatly give it a shot though, and thanks =P i hope i have a good time on your forums.

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i take that back, now i cant run it full screen on SW or on HW now. i have no clue why. but now i get the above message for fullscreen, and i cant find a direct download to the 1.5 patch beta...

Not sure about the errors as I only have XP, but the direct download link for 1.5 beta is: http://ultraken.dyndns.org/www/bzone_2010-07-12.7z (7 zip file)

Actually, this is the link to the complete download of 1.5 beta. It takes more than just the new executable to run 1.5 properly, there's a few new files, and you'll need a separate installation for 1.5, so that you don't screw up your 1.4 installation with incompatible 1.5 files. 1.5 beta installer takes care of all that. It also includes DirectX and Visual C++ Redistributable, required for running 1.5 beta. Enjoy!

I don't know why your BZ would work fullscreen and then stop working though.

All these Tech Support topics look the same; there's a guy with a problem, but when asking for help he forgets to post system specifications (yes, router model too), or BZ he's using (it makes a lot difference if it is BZ98 or CD isntallation), or he makes crucial changes to the game (like resolution and render), without mentioning them. Then forum's finest are trying to help him, unsuccesfully of course (SnakeEye is my favorite).

Sporkinator has 2075 posts, Snowcone 464, SnakeEye 266... You guys are here almost every day, so you should know the answers to all F.A.Q, even if awaken in the middle of the night. If you don't know, why you even bother posting and confusing new members/potential players with your ignorance?

IE, Snowcone's link is useful only if you are executable collector, otherwise there's no much you can do with it. It leads to one of the (experimental) builds, not to 1.5b (which doesn't exist) or 1.5b installer, which exists here - http://www.battlezone1.net/patch. We all know what happened when SE was reporting 1.5 issues while only using the exe.

Why is so hard to remember that stock game (and BZ98) come in 640x480 resolution, which is the only working Window mode resolution, and also the resolution you get after the first crash? Then why is so hard to remember that BZ in Vista/7+Nvidia combination requires BZ resolution 800x600 or higher, and that there's no fix for white boxes on radar map (Vista/7+Nvidia GeForce)? All this was already said too many times. I'll have to rewrite FAQ from our main site when I find time...

This is what probably happened: fox_inuyasha installed the game, changed resolution and played some SP. Then he tried to play MP, but crashed (could be due anims, z-buffer... probably due ports in his case, but hard to tell without more info). After a crash he got 640x480 resolution again, but this time he didn't change it. Now he's crashing in both SP and MP.

Solution: if you are using BZ98 and you didn't mess with the render.cfg, change BZ resolution back to 800x600+ and check if you need port forwarding (ask someone in the lobby to try joining your game). Whatever happens, be sure to report back here.

well, spock be right about the 600-800 res thing, right about the square blips i dunno.... does it correct in "window mode"?

and i posted.. well... kinda posted my system specs. probubly not exactly everything. just whats obviouse to me. and router being port-forwarded, i need to do that anyway, so i'll look into this. what about the random squares of white-blue light showing on the ground when shooting? has that been reported at all? =o

Yes, you did, but I was talking in general. Take a look at the guy who started this topic. He didn't even respond to my graphic card question.


That's coming in the pack with radar issues, Nvidia GeForce thing.

P.S. After my previous post everybody ignored this guy's issue. With knowing how forum's finest think, I expected something like that, but that was not the point of my post...

Ok guys... I have the same problem (Unhandled Exeception), and if I run it through the Configuration Utility and, in case of wrong program starts i've choose Software rendering, its running. But! I have colorized textures if I change resolution. Can you tell me... know anybody best solution... if exist
And sorry for my question and my english


CPU: Core i7 860; 2.80 Ghz
RAM: 4Gb
GPU: Ati Radeon HD 5870 1Gb (that's maybe a problem )
OS: Windows 7 32bit

Again, no one helping the a new guy?!

BcJazz, read first post from here.