Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds

Key points

The game will not work on XP and higher without user-made fixes for general issues (color corruption, game not loading, etc.).

The game may not work on Windows Vista and later - even with the aforementioned user-made fixes - unless DXGL is used (see Issues fixed).

Resolution is not unified - strategic and tactical maps display in the resolution chosen in Graphics Settings, while videos, menus, and loading screens always display at 640x480.

General information

Official forum for all video game adaptations of Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Rage\Jeff Wayne's 'The War Of The Worlds'\1.00.000^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\SaveGame^{[Note 2]}

Video settings

All menu screens, including the graphics and audio settings screens, are unique for both the Human and Martian factions; however, they both have exactly the same wording, format, and settings, so the difference is merely superficial.

Graphics settings.

Audio settings.

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Input settings

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Issues fixed

No CD Audio

Under XP and higher, the game may be unable to read the CD Audio tracks on the Human (Disc 1/Installation Disc) and Martian (Disc 2) CDs, causing it to think there is no CD-ROM inserted into the disc drive.

Install and configure _inmm.dll^{[citation needed]}

Follow the instructions found in this community-made instruction manual.

Notes

In the event the link to the patched _inmm.dll found in Step 2 of the instruction manual no longer works, you can still download it from PCGamingWiki.

Game crashes after starting or loading a new game

Under Vista and higher, the game will crash as soon as the strategic map is loaded due to DirectDraw features the game relies upon being deprecated.

Install and configure DXGL^[1]
Install DXGL. Once installed, open dxglcfg.exe, DXGL's config application. Using the "Add..." button, add the following EXEs from the installation folder to DXGL's list of programs: WoW.exe and WOWStart.exe Run the game as normal.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DirectDraw	6	No support for hardware acceleration
Software renderer		Via DirectDraw.

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium I 133 (133 MHz)	Intel Pentium II 333 (333 MHz)
System memory (RAM)	16 MB	64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	120 MB
Video card (GPU)	1 MB of VRAM	4 MB of VRAM

Notes

↑ Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.
↑ When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References

↑ Verified by User:Expack3 on 2013-12-27

[HKLM-1] Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.

[gamedir-2] When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

[3] Verified by User:Expack3 on 2013-12-27

[Note 1]

[Note 2]

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Developers

	Rage Software
Publishers
	GT Interactive
Release dates
Windows	1999