Just want to chime in, I tried these instructions above last night on Windows 7 Ultimate (64 bit) installation, and success! I got it to work, and played about 700+ days worth of game without any issue. A few notes from my experience: - When trying to copy the files from disc per step 1, it had problems copying a few of the files in the "MData" directory (complained it was unable to copy or "Read" the file during the copy operation)...probably a problem with the disc? I mention it, only because I did a search and noticed some others had similar issues. My solution? I had an .iso copy of the disc, and was able to mount that using Virtual Clone drive and copy the files from the mounted image. - Follow the instructions to the letter! First mis-step I made, during step #1, is I actually copied the actual "folder" (named "REBELLION") along with the contents of said folder to "Star Wars Rebellion" (so I had C:\Program Files (x86)\LucasArts\Star Wars Rebellion\REBELLION\" as a path)...not good. That throws off the path and it crashed badly. You want the content of the folder, NOT the folder itself. - At first, I got thrown some non-descript erros that had path references in it, then it would go to the startup/game options screen, but nothing worked (except "exit"). The paths in the odd error messages were a clue, and my problem was that when setting up the folder in Step #1, I had put "Lucas Arts" instead of "LucasArts" (2 words instead of 1). Fixed that, and the game started and ran flawlessly. - You do need to sit through the droid speech at the beginning. No way around that. I vaguely remember having to do that in XP as well. - One thing of interesting note...and it might be my imagination...you seem to have to be a little more "exact" when clicking on planet when idicating the target of a mission or the destination for a manufactuing facility output. It wasn't too bad, but it definitely seemed like the actual area you had to "click" in was a bit more constrained. I am a UI designer/developer, so I am guessing it might be due to the way the newer version of windows manages the underlying control used for the visual objects? In any case, had no effect on playability at all, it is still a plenty large target area, and automatic once I realized that I had to be a bit more centered with the cursor. Could also be a factor of me using the touch pad of my notebook instead of a mouse. - And since we are on the theme of selection oddities...it was a bit quirky when selecting personnel for missions. Holding down "select" and clicking personnel had the behavior I would expect, but holding down "ctrl" and clicking was hit or miss...sometimes it worked, sometimes it acted like I didn't have "ctrl" held down. Not always though, but I noticed it. Otherwise, I played two hours last night complete with battles (simulated and not), no issues, no crashing on my Windows 7 64bit notebook. All good! Would love to get in a game with a real person...drop me a message if you are interested.