It is your PC. I run all the games I have registered under my name here on Win7, no problem at all. Honestly, how could Paradox survive if none of their games ever worked on Win7, which has been out for over 3 years? HoI3 and CK2 were
developed under win7, for heaven's sake. Of course they can run under it.
if you put on Google simply this " paradox games windows 7",
All that would find is people who have a problem and are on Windows 7, doesn't mean being on Windows 7 caused their problem. Which it did not:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1296475
Not a Windows 7 problem, was fixed by applying the latest DirectX 9.0c - this situation also applies to Vista.
http://www.sevenforums.com/gaming/45425-europa-universalis-3-a.html
Not a Windows 7 problem, was a corrupted patch file.
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1887993
Others in this thread confirm that the game works fine on Win7; OP was too irrational to actual try any fixes.
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?576603-Paradox-games-crashing-on-Windows-7
Problem was caused by a Nero codec, nothing to do with win7.
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=383323
Two people there, one fixed it with DirectX 9.0c, the other with a new monitor. Nothing to do with Win7.
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?468648-WIndows-7-and-HOI2
Just needed to install outside the system path. Nothing to do with being on Win7 per se (as this need applied to Vista also).
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?624710-HoI-III-and-Windows-7
OP does not respond to suggestions, but others confirm that HoI III was developed on Win7, therefore him being on Win7 is not the problem.
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?462145-Any-compatibility-problems-with-Windows-7
Fixed by installing a patch, others in the thread have no problems under win7 as long as game is installed outside the system path.
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...on-t-launch-install-properly-on-windows-7-x64
Not a Paradox-developed game. But the last post in that thread confirms it works under win7 just fine.
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?610022-HOI-1-amp-2-compatibility-with-Windows-7
Sadly no-one responded to that post, but those old games would certainly work if they were installed outside the system path, run as admin, and desktop composition disabled.
So, you've been unable to find a single instance of a Paradox game that has been shown to not run
because it is on Win7. I promise you, there is no such problem. We would know, and we have no reason to lie or mislead.
This game worked on your old PC which had Vista. Requirements for older Paradox games such as this to run on Vista and on Win7 are identical. So of the two variables (OS and PC) the OS has been eliminated as a cause. Consequently the issue is on the PC.
Is it windows or my PC, if you want I can send you the files of HOI3 for comparison with EU Rome and see if there is something. I need to register it and well lets see what in the world is going on with this since it proves my theory that either my PC specifically or the Paradox Games are not compatible with Win7
As I pointed out above, HoI III was developed on Win7 so of course it runs on it - can you imagine for a moment that Paradox could release a game in the last 3 years that simply failed to run on Win7 at all? Again, I promise you, being on Win7 is nothing to do with your problems.
I myself don't do HoI III support as I don't own or play it, but feel free to post whatever info you have here or in the HoI3 Tech Support forum (after you register it).
BTW you did install the
latest DirectX 9.0c as I mentioned in post #13 above did you? You definitely have d3dx9_41.dll in your system?
