Battlezone Tips

I was able to successfully install Battlezone in both a Win98 and WinXP bottle on the following machine:

Soyo SY-7ISA+ Intel i815 Motherboard
Intel Pentium III 866 MHz Processor
512 MB SDRAM
PNY Verto GeForce FX 5200 AGP 8x 256 MB DDR Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 PCI Sound Card (SB0220) Samsung CD-RW/DVD Drive Model:  TS-H492A/RSWN Dual Boot openSUSE Linux 10.3/Windows XP Pro SP3 CodeWeavers CrossOver Games for Linux Version 7.1.2

I installed the base game and the Version 1.4 patch as well as the entire Gold version consisting of the base game, the Version 1.4 patch, The Red Odyssey expansion, the Battlegrounds expansion, and the large assets pack.  I also tried installing using both the software and hardware renderer.

The following results applied regardless of the installation process used.  In order to start the game, it was necessary to use the setup.exe program on the CD-ROM rather than the one on the hard drive in order to start the game launcher.  After selecting Play in the launcher, the introductory video plays properly, but when it completes, rather than seeing the main menu, all I can see is a black screen and an arrow cursor that is not displayed properly.  In a properly functioning installation, sounds can be heard as the mouse is moved over possible menu items, but I could hear no such sounds in any of my installations as I moved the mouse around on the black screen.  I was obliged to terminate the terminal sessions rather than exiting the program gracefully.