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The Endless Forest on Windows 11?

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July 10, 2024 - 10:58am — Michael Samyn
Are any of you playing The Endless Forest on Windows 11?
Did you run into any issues?

The Endless Forest will be shown in a big exhibition in New York but the tech team of the organization gets a "Runtime Error!" when they connect to the network. Does anybody have any ideas how to fix this?
July 10, 2024 - 12:36pm — vampirecult

Lol. Lmao even.

Lol. Lmao even.
July 10, 2024 - 12:41pm — Draak
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I have a feeling the answer

I have a feeling the answer is a resounding no just due to this: https://www.endlessforest.org/community/any-luck-windows-11
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July 10, 2024 - 1:50pm — Michael Samyn
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Thank you for responding! So

Thank you for responding! So the game doesn't run on Windows 11 at all? Bummer!
July 13, 2024 - 4:09pm — Light

It's always ran fine on

It's always ran fine on windows 11 for me. Not sure how to resolve the issue for others though.
July 14, 2024 - 7:45pm — OkamiLugia
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I have two windows 11

I have two windows 11 computers that run the old TEF well. On one of the computers there were some initial hiccups at first (I believe it was that "Runtime Error!" but I'm not certain because it's been a long time), and I have no idea why they stopped happening after a few sessions. On the other computer, I had to turn on some sort of setting I don't recall the name of at the moment that is supposed to allow windows 11 to run much much older games. That was the only issue on this computer and TEF has run just fine ever since. I may get dumped from the network or the window may crash after running for many hours, but that's nothing unique to windows 11.

It's a total mystery to me why the game just won't work for others with windows 11.

Not a very practical solution, but I can honestly really only suggest trying different computers until you find one that will run it smoothly.
July 17, 2024 - 7:45am — Michael Samyn
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Thank you for letting me

Thank you for letting me know!
July 19, 2024 - 11:56pm — cosmico

the way i got it to work on

the way i got it to work on my windows 11 was to right-click the application, go into the "compatibility" tab of properties, and check it off to "compatibility mode" with windows 7. since then it's ran pretty much without any issue!
August 26, 2024 - 3:11am — WillowBear

I am having trouble getting

I am having trouble getting it to work on my newly built pc. ;w; I was hoping I could play it haaha.
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September 11, 2024 - 1:35am — Shadowfly

still having this issue too

still having this issue too :[ super bummed
May 15, 2025 - 5:02am — DeadSister

You need to download old

You need to download old verisons of microsoft visual ctt plus the latest version of java to avoid alot of issues.
May 22, 2025 - 2:22am — Yak

another win11 user checking

another win11 user checking in, it's behaved remarkably well for me so far, been using it for a few months now. Only issue I've had was not connecting to the server a couple of times and I guess that was likely a server issue rather than my end. Apart from that it's been fine, even gracefully handles my absurd 32:9 ultrawide monitor. Performance can get choppy but given the age of the software I think it's doing its best really!

Didn't need any special dance to get it to run, just downloaded, installed and it came up fine.
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