Battlezone 1

Step 1) Follow DarkOddity's excellent video tutorial HERE (Edit by admin: video not longer available) and get the Compatibility Administrator up and running. Once you've begin editing the application fix, there are a few differences for settings you'll have to select.

Under Operating System Modes, Windows XP SP2 is probably greyed out. That's fine - Select None. In the box to the right (Additional Compatibility Modes) scroll down and choose Windows XP.

On the next page - Compatibility Fixes, choose these options:
DisableThemes
EmulateHeap
ForceAVIWindow
GlobalMemoryStatusTrim <----- This is the big one!
LoadLibraryCWD
RestoreSystemCursors
VirtualRegistry
WinXPVersionLie <------ another important one

Now just complete everything as laid out in the video tutorial. Remember to start BZ in windowed mode for your first launch. Good Luck!

After following these directions, i still can't start the game. I get "bzone.exe - Application Error. The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005). Click OK to terminate the application."

Bzconfig.exe is also unable to find battlezone.

Try this.

Oh snap, that worked. I've been used to getting a message saying DEP prevented a program from running normally, so i didn't think of that this time. Thanks man.

Thanks, usnavyfish and everybody!
I just could not have started this game under WinXP x64 with 8 GB RAM until I have found this topic!
The errorbox from Battlezone application was:

My HW/SW configuration is:

My solution was to follow the steps:
1) Download and install Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.5
2) Run the Compatibility Administrator application
3) Select a Custom Databases entry
4) Menu -> Database -> Create New -> Application Fix... [Ctrl+P]
5) Fill in the data, name Battlezone, vendor Activision, path to bzone.exe file, and click Next
6) Inside Operating System Modes list select None, since Microsoft Windows XP is grayed out, without additional compatibility modes, and click Next
7) Toggle GlobalMemoryStatusTrim into enabled, and click Next
8) Everything is configured, so click Finish
9) Select the newly created application fix named "Battlezone"
10) Menu -> Database -> Run Program F5
Since then, the application works fine even though the actual operating system has 8 gigabytes of RAM on board!
You can read the description of the fix from the System Database -> Compatibility Fixes -> GlobalMemoryStatusTrim:

The errorbox doesn't appear when I run the application that way, though it appears when I run the application directly from explorer still.
Note, that Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.5 already has a configuration for Battlezone listed in System Database -> Applications -> Battlezone, but it doesn't contain GlobalMemoryStatusTrim among the fixes, and thus is useless with my HW/SW configuration.

Wont work for me with windows 7 and 4 gigs of memory i downloaded the windows compatibility gizmo and couldnt get or find path on last step havent played in 18 months now after 10 years . Too much headache to get it to work i put bz exe in after the Battlezone and Activision vendor line ........Fail

This tutorial is for WindowsXP, not for 7. Uninstall wrong ACT patch or you will never get BZ to work.