Running Oni on Windows 7 Pro/Ultimate
March8
So here’s another one of my favourite classics. Getting this to run on Windows 7 takes a little trick, but asside from that works like a charm.
- First install the game as normal.
- Second replace Oni.exe in the games directory with this patch: Oni Patch for Vista/Windows 7
- Right click the exe, edit compatability:
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- run as win2000 compatability
- with visial themes disabled
- and as administrator.
Click OK and run the game.
omg ty ty ty! 8^D I have windows 7 now and everytime I tried running the game it would crash..i was so disappointed I didnt think I would be able to play oni ever again 8^(
Your comment for some reason was incorrectly labled as spam. Sorry about that. Glad i could help you – Oni is indeed a very cool game
This was the top search result when I googled “Oni windows 7″
Thanks for the link to the patch! Im gonna fire this best up and play it now! I wish they still made games like this. Yknow, where they focused on getting the gameplay and interaction of game objects perfect, rather than just slapping loads of nice looking props (that you cant touch or stand on) everywhere. Its all about being rewarded for skill..not being unfairly penalised when you make the reasonable assumption that you can walk past a rock without it having its own invisible force field! Excuse the rant..but games these days?! I duno!!!
Oni forever!!!
Thanks so much for this info and the patch – saved a great deal of hassle!
Thanks, man! Oni is running with this patch – I have windows 7 64 bit
Thank you so much for the patch. I tried to use a no-CD patch instead (it keeps on giving on a CD-ROM error), but it didn’t work.
Yo! Thanks a lot for this guide
Oni is working perfectly fine in my windows 7 ultimate system now
huhuhu this not work for me pls help im using windows 7 bt y ? isnt work!!!!!
i followd carefully ur instruction yet did not work!! somebody help me pls!! i love this game!!! i need working patch for this 1! huhuhuhu
I was running Oni smoothly on my Windows 7 / 32 machine (after changing the compatibility setting to Xp SP3), but now that I switched to Windows 7 /64 the game launches correctly but the cursor moves painfully slow (I almost can’t get it to the \options\ icon on the main menu). What am I missing???
Thanks so much for this! Can’t have a new operating system standing in the way of yet another replay of one of my top ten games ever…
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I’m having the same problem as Andrea, game installs and runs just fine on vista, but then runs extremely laggy like my computer isn’t powerful enough to handle the game, anyone have a solution for this?
Try turning off aero via the compatibility tab, desktop composition and themes.
Make sure your power profile is set to max performance or equivalent and not power saver or balanced etc…
Ensure the game is patched and up to date.
Regardless if it’s genuine, try installing the no-cd patch from gamecopyworld.
Ensure your graphics drivers are up to date (yeah it’s an old game, but your problem is the shitty bastard child vista and drivers are always an issue).
Make sure your cpu and memory are free – ctrl-shift-esc, processes, show for all users (at the bottom), sort the cpu column ascending. Typical culprits are firefox (which is buggy as hell so ends up sometimes using up like 50-60% of your cpu and up to half a gig of memory). Skype can sometimes be a problem if you have the plug-in crap installed.
Also (on that note), make sure you dont have a virus scanner actively running (something i find annoying with the likes of ms security essentials, kaspersky, nod and avg is that they make your pc sluggish when they decide it’s time to run a quick scan). Also check your HDD light on your computer to make sure it isn’t having an epileptic fit or just on continuously. This means that your hard disk is being actively used which will seriously screw performance for anything like a game. Typical culprits include virus scanners and windows indexing service.
Finally if you have Norton, reformat your computer (since you cant now get rid of it no matter how hard you try), reinstall windows (preferably NOT vista) and install an actual virus scanner (paid: kaspersky, nod32; free: avira, avg, avast). Norton (apart from being useless as anything other than a resource hog and an illusion of security) kills your computers performance. HARD. In fact i think that it’s probably deliberate to ensure people keep buying new hardware – based on the fact that the only people that use Norton are the ones that get it with their computer and it’s the only thing that seems to be bundled with any computer you buy.
That’s about all the advice i can think of tbh. I’m not sure which of the virtualisation programs has the best hardware acceleration and are best for games, but that’s always an option. VMWare (free and commercial), Parallels, VirtualBox (opensource and commercial) are virtual computer environments. You install an OS into them like you would on a real computer (WinXP in this case) and you start it like any other application. Your mileage will vary thought since your not actually talking to the hardware directly. Always worth a try though – i have 4/5 virtual computers for various tasks like development and security testing so i can keep my actual computer light and fast. In fact that’s how i run OSX for iPhone development (since I’m not actually shelling out for an overpriced piece of hardware to develop for 1 single crippled platform).
Let me know if you have success with any of the above. Sorry i cant really think of a way to help you out more.
Yes! I can play this classic game again on Win7. Much thanks.
Hey plzzzzz help no sound ??????????????????