Just a Friendly Reminder…
Survival Crisis Z is free.
I haven’t had any luck getting it on Vista, but it works fine on XP.
Its an old game, but has garnered a bit of a cult following in its time.
Update: fixed the link!
Update: fixed the link… again! There’s no guarantee it’ll work and at the moment we aren’t going to create any fixes. Our enthusiasm for working on a future SCZ has been somewhat squashed since Project Zomboid was announced.
September 7, 2007 posted by James
Filed under: SCZ
Dude…me and my friends have been playing this game for days on end! if a game like this were Online Play or Multi-player…it would be one of the greatest games ever…its just so fun to play!!
This game has to be one of the best innovative type of games I have ever played.
I have a question, however. Has anyone else had trouble getting the haunt.zml game to work? I only seem to be getting the test game.
hey im up to the last mission in the first episode when i kill everyone it wont work when ever i try to push anything cept esc enter and space it goes beep and when i do press those buttons it takes me outa of the game
ps:whats the yellow whistle for
I have two questions:
1. Is it pure evilness on your part, buggy code, or a buggy download, that has my version of SCZ not working past Session 1? I complete the first scenario, and in the second on I can’t shoot anything or use any kind of weapon whatsoever. In the third one (I created a new character and started on the third) I can’t use my inventory. Are these bugs that were fixed in a later version (I cannot be sure of the age of the download I used, as it was a link on a forum I got to in a link from another forum, which I got to from StumbleUpon. This suggests it was quite old).
2. Is SCZ now completely free? Because – if it is indeed an older version – mine is shareware, not freeware, and I am unable to purchase skills.
If it’s free already, do you have any plans of open-sourcing the sourcecode? So that fans can fix known bugs/implement new levels.
Alright, pretty much answered my own questions by downloading the latest version.
AWESOME game. Very well made.
Please please make this multiplayer somehow….it would be the best game ever i know ever i literally know would be playing this game….if online…wow..this game would be even better than any Resident Evil out there….this game absolutely rocks!!!
im on xp and the game crashes on character creation. anyone has the same problem?
I love this game. It’s great! I have a problem, though. I played the arcade mode a bit and have unlocked somethings, but I have no idea how to play them. How?
I can’t stop playing the game! It’s really fun but I have a few problems:
1. I cannot open unlocked minigames, I don’t know what command to type in order to run them. Can anyone help?
2. During gameplay, I get a quiet pulsing sort of tone that soon gives me headaches, the heartbeat background sound then starts up again and only lasts for a few minutes. Anyone else have the same problem?
Other than that, the game rocks!
please present your game in the site moddb
http://www.moddb.com/games?filter=Search&kw=&released=def&style=def&indie=2
I can’t seam to get SCZ to load. Any help would be appreciated
I really liked this game. The best indie game i ve ever tried.
So this absolutely will not work on vista at all? Like absolutely no chance what-so-ever? I might go as far as trying to dual boot vista and xp to play this, i am seriously disheartened to find that one of my favorite zombie games for the PC or even of all time, no longer functions on my computer. If anyone at all knows how to get this game to work on vista, please contact me at: sonikku_52@mail.com
go to this site if u want to make this masterpiece work on vista and windows 7
http://survivalcrisisz.wikia.com/wiki/Survival_Crisis_Z#Vista_32_bit
Howdy, if you haven’t had luck with vista, I doubt it’ll work on Win 7, so has anyone ever tried ME? I only have those two Win OSs in my house, the rest are linux, on which I’m not going to even bother trying WINE. Any suggestions?
I agree…If survival crisis z got a multiplayer version, it will be one of the most inovative multiplayer games!!!
and there are too many people in the search of a (good) survival horror multiplayer online…if ska studios get an association with a enterprise of the genre (like touch of death productions), have a great chance to concretize this dream of too many people around the world (like my brazillian friends!!!)
i hope that anyone can listen this foolish words..
sorry for my english!!!
I got this working on Windows 7 64 bit by following these directions here : http://forum.tip.it/topic/246142-survival-crisis-z-zombie-survival-game/. Works just fine and ive had no problems.
I have windows XP and I can’t get this game to work!
All I get is a white screen and a cursor. When I hit the space bar, enter, or esc, it just closes the program.
I REALLY, REALLY want to play this game and have tried everything– a windows95 emulator, Dosbox, resetting my graphics to 256… NOTHING WORKS!!!!
Also, this is NOT a Vista issue! I do not have Vista, I have XP!
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Great game, love playing it…. have u ever thought of porting it to xbox and adding multi player… i think it could be another cult classic like castle crashers.
I’ve been playing this game for years now, I never tire of it.
ok i cant get this to work on win 7 64 bit, nicodemis i tried what u said but that still doesnt work, i can start the game but during the intro screen it freezes, and when i exit theres an error that says
:run-time error ‘-2005530509 (88760873)’:
automation error
Same error as jesse, dont know how to fixz, windows 7 ultimate 64 bits =/
I’m not sure who managed to get GameFAQs to include SCZ but I took the liberty of doing a small writeup. Thought you might like to know.
[Didn't like to alt-tab and the minigames didn't exist (drawing some sarcasm) but otherwise worked reasonably on my Win2k tower. Blaster from the past, I know.]
very fun
i get a whithe screen w. cursor when i start it. plz fix. Win xp
dude its not workn and i got xp
Is this game going to be continued I beated it and it was an awesome experience plz make another I would love it with online 2 and more guns and more detailed character creation and the chance to be a zombie 2 like left4dead
Umm for some reason the download file page wont connect… I cant play if i cant download it… Is anyone else having this problem or am i just a loser… lol help plzzz
Dude I’m totally having the same problem. The Ska site’s domain doesn’t work anymore..
Fixed the link!
Oh my god thank you so much! HA HA
Strange I cant seem to get the game to work ive tried everything i can think of it shows the same error every time… Missing file Dx8vb.dll Can some one help plz?
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I just got this game today and am already hooked. This is great to play since I don’t have internet of my own. It didn’t start at first but once I got it to work, The game ran perfectly!
Instructions for getting it to run.
http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?PHPSESSID=fh6qmgr43f11v7h6j6uh64i6t2&topic=107311.0
You need to download and put these in either system32 or syswow64
dx7vb.dll
dx8vb.dll
d3drm.dll
In administrator command prompt change directory into system32 or syswow64 then type
regsvr32 dx7vb.dll
Click OK on the window that comes up saying dllregserver succeeded
regsvr32 dx8vb.dll
Click OK on the window that comes up saying dllregserver succeeded
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I tried the windows 7 fix(64 bit), dx7 and dx8 installed properly through the command prompt, but now i’m getting “Run-time error ’445′: Object doesn’t support this action”
this doesent work has dx8vb.dll error and when i get a dll with that name it gives me active x errors
I have Win XP and Im getting ” Run-Time Error ’445′: Object doesn’t support this action” help please? Im redownloading it as we speak from THIS website… I downloaded it from another website… I hope this one works @.@ this game sounds amazing and very retro
…. nope re downloaded and im still getting the same error…
the game is broken…. so i think it is really unplayable until they decide to fix it more.
The best zombie game I’ve ever played since Resident Evil 4, Game Cubes Resident Evil & 360′s Dead Island.
Would love to see an update and this on XBL Indie & for it to be available to Australia.
I WOULD LOOOOOOOOOVE IIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!!!
Please, release source code. It will make community around it much bigger and stronger.
i have this game in the windows xp but now i got the 7. Please help me man, i have the windows 7, and the game does not is compatible. When a try to start a message apears ”O programa não pode ser iniciado porque está faltando dx8vb.dll no seu computador. Tente reinstalar para resolver o problema” ( the program does not start becouse it’s missing dx8vb.dll in the computer. Try to reinstall to fix the problem ) But i reinstall the game and the problem continue. (sorry my horrible english)
Nothing works, it won’t load, I have followed all the steps to fix it for windows seven but it keeps popping up with this message.
this module dx7vb. dlll failed to load.
make sure that the binary is stored at the specified path or de-bug it to check for problems with binary or dependent. DLL files.
the specified module could not be found.
Help please.
Email me with any help at reecedempsey@hotmail.co.uk
Please somebody help me out urgently, i don`t know what to do anymore, I took the leadership of every buildings on the city, the neutrals, and swat`s and rebel`s buildings, now what??? waht i`m i suposed to do now??? when the game ends??? please somebody guide me, write me to : juancarlos-palaciomazo@hotmail.com
I believe this game doesn’t work on newer systems because it works fine on 2 of my older computers but on my new laptop it doesn’t work, this is an old game after all so my only solution to you all is to get an older computer and play it on that but if you do that then you will be playing probably one of the best zombie games ever made! oh and i tried the windows fix it doesn’t work for me i get the error “run time error 429 activex component can’t create object which i believe many are having, this never happens on older computers.
I first played this game on Windows XP several years ago. It was amazing and I spent hours on it. Then when I got a new laptop in 2008, the game wouldn’t work. I tried so many different things, even the specified fix for vista. And it never worked…
Until about a year ago, I decided to reformat my computer, re-download all of the windows updates, and after all of that was finished, I applied the so-called “vista fix” and it worked. I have absolutely no idea what I had been doing wrong, or what I did right to fix it, but it works wonderfully now.
Now if only they’d release the source code for the game… that would be incredible.
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DAH GAME WAS A BIG FART!
IT WAS DAH GOOD KIND OF BIG FART THAT IS SO EPICAL THAT ITS NOT EVEN A FART!
The link won’t work! Plz fix it!
The link should be fixed again but unfortunately we aren’t going to be providing support for SCZ anytime soon. It’ll be up to other folks to create fixes and whatnot.
Dudes and Dudettes @ SKA Studios….
project zomboid is no good…. i’m not saying this to discredit the hard work the people who developed it put in….but truly speaking IT SUCKS…i tried the latest beta…its a very underachieving attempt @ trying to create a pixellated cartoon game with scary sounds and even then it does not pass off as a good game…..for heavens sakes get a KICKSTARTER Going and make a good zombie game…..SCZ 2 would be much appreciated…..add the multiplayer option too(i’m not a fan of it)….but still ALWAYS concentrate on the SINGLE PLAYER campaigns….. your game SCZ is Par Excellent….. and my salutations for that……. looking forward to a gr8 game from you guys…… SKA STUDIOS RULEZ!!!!
\\m// ROCKERZ ROCK ALWAYS \\m//
A Survival Crisis Z Fan……
To whom it may concern:
Greetings from Mexico.
First of all, let me say that I love SCZ, however I have had problems with. Sometimes, while I play, I get a windows error sign, and then closes. I leave here what appears:
AppName: scz.exe
AppVer: 1.1.0.0
ModName: scz.exe
ModVer: 1.1.0.0
Offset: 00030bcd
Hope you can help me, because I really fascinates Survival Crisis Z.
Thank you in advance.
PS: Can you tell me if it is possible to translate to Spanish SCZ?
If so, I hope as I say.
Thank you.
[...] SURVIVAL CRISIS Z (2005) Price: $0 At least you don’t have to scavenge for batteries.Most people know the work of Ska Studios for their Xbox Live Arcade releases Dead Samurai, Vampire Smile, and the forthcoming Charlie Murder. In actuality, these guys have been making games for years – and one of my favorites will always be Survival Crisis Z. The closest relative to SCZ would be a loot-based RPG, but don’t come in expecting the next Diablo or Torchlight – this game is about managing fatigue, betraying factions, dealing with infected party members, and scavenging underground laboratories. What it lacks in visual fidelity it more than makes up for in massive replay value, with randomly generated cities, tons of secrets and a wealth of unlockable modes. It’s a genuine shame they never developed a sequel to this game. If you ask me, the future of games is in non-linear experiences like Minecraft and Day-Z, where you are placed in to a huge world and the only objectives are the ones you make for yourself. In that regard, Survival Crisis Z feels a little ahead of its time. If you can look past some simplistic character art and figure out how to set up your controls properly, Survival Crisis Z will provide you with near-endless hours of enjoyment – just be aware that it can have trouble running on newer versions of Windows. [...]
Generally I don’t read article on blogs, but I wish to say that this write-up very forced me to try and do it! Your writing style has been surprised me. Thanks, very great post.
PLZ tell me how to run this in windows 7
docent work with xp comes up with runtime error -2005532109 (88760233)
dude you will develop this game for multiplayer answer me why it would be pretty cool to play with friends …
Dude, SCZ is one of the most awesome games I’ve ever played. Arcadey, easy, fun, tense and challenging.
Project Zomboid is goddamn depressing. This game kicked ass when I played it 5 years ago and it kicks ass now. You should seriously consider getting it a new coat of paint and Greenlighting it like a boss. I guarantee you, Id rather pay for it than Zomboid.
fix the link pleeeeeaaaassssseeeee its killing me ;_;
Fixed!
hmmm..???
this game is AWESOME!!!!!!
Screw project zomboid. You guys can make a much more enjoyable game. (And probably finish it too)
kkkkkkkk
oooaahhh!!! Very nice game!
Need help. I have the error “429″. Now I can’t load SCZ SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
I say This Game is Awesome but Is There Multiplayer?