Battlezone 1

Hello all!
I just found this place last night, after I dug out my Battlezone disc and decided to see if I could play it on my computer. And... it doesn't quite work. So, onwards:

Specs:
Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit Sp2
Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q9300 @2.5GHz
4 GB Ram
ATI Radeon 3800 series graphics card

I have been reading through a lot of the threads here.

What I have done so far is:
1: Switch the game to Compability Mode for WinXP
2: I turned off "Data Execution Prevention" for Battlezone.

Turning off the DEP allowed the game to start up, run the intro video, and allow me to choose various options. When I go to start a Single Player game, either Training or Campaign, the first scene comes onto the screen, and then freezes. The narration continues, and I can hear my guy firing and walking around, as if everything is normal. But the screen is just frozen on the first scene.

I have not downloaded any patches... is it necessary to do so if I only want to play Single player? (at least for now...).

Would it be easier if I just uninstalled the game, and then just downloaded the Battlezone installer that is available?

I know enough about computers to get myself in trouble, so I apologize in advance for any "newbie" questions.

Thanks!

BZ might not work on Vista 64bit even with all patches applied. If you are not very techy, patching is pretty complicated, so you should really try the latest installer (with all available fixes) and see how it works for you. Even if you only need SP for now, next month you may wish to play some MP, so you better be ready.

If you fail even with the installer, you could use the latest experimental build (soon to be 1.5 patch). I'm strongly against fixing 1.4 issues with not-yet-ready-1.5, but since you only want single player campaign (it's not being used online), you may give it a try. All you need is patched BZ (use BZ98 installer), then just place Ken's exe in your main BZ folder and fire it up from there.

Also, posting back how is EB working might help Ken in the future patch development.