Microsoft Close Combat (CC1) + Microsoft Vista Ultimate.

Would the old game work with the latest operating system?

The only way to find out was to try and install Microsoft Close Combat (CC1) on my Vista Ultimate computer.

So I insert CD and as expected got the "not intended to be used with your version of Windows.

So typed the following in to the run window. "D:\SETUP\ACMSETUP.EXE /Z cchook.dll /T cc.stf /S D:" The install then worked.

Its been some time since I have seen this screen!

Installed to default settings.

First error message during install.

Second error message during install.

Yet still got "Set-up was completed successfully"

As you can see the files on the CC1 CD are dated 01/06/1996

Set Vista compatibility to Windows 95.

Got this error. So I manually installed Indeo 4.1 from the CC1 CD. Yet this error message persisted if using Windows 95 compatibility.

So set compatibility mode to Windows NT service pack 5, it worked.

CC1 now fired up.

Presented with CC1 run optimally in 256 colours. Desktop was set to 32bit 1280 X 960

CC1 was using just 11.6MB of memory, yet the total being used was over 600MB! Vista alone needs 500MB just to run!

Microsoft Close Combat (CC1) running full screen with Task Manager showing CPU & Memory usage.

Computer Specs are: Intel P4 2.8 / 1GB Ram / Nvidia 6600 Video Card Windows Ultimate Build 6