If it says it is installed it would be better to use the program to uninstall and then reinstall it again.ģ) Install Anno 1701 by finding the setup.exe program on the CD and right clicking and selecting 'run as administrator' - because you installed Tages in the last step you shouldn't receive the popup reporting 'unsigned drivers' as it sees you have newer drivers installed and so doesn't use the incompatible ones from the CD.Īt this point my computer was still saying 'Anno 1701 has stopped working' when I tried to play it, the next step suddenly made everything playable.ĥ) I installed The Sunken Dragon expansion which upgraded the game to 1.04 (use the 'run as adminitrator' on the setup.exe as before).

What you need to do is this.ġ) Uninstall Anno 1701 completely from your computer.Ģ) Go to and download and install the most recent version of Tages (the install program acts as a toggle, so if Tages is installed it will uninstall it, and if it's not installed it will install it. The main culprit that is stopping the game from working is the old Tages copy protection on the CDs which isn't compatible with Windows 7 (especially the 64 bit version). I have both Anno 1701 and The Sunken Dragon expansion on separate disks (so not the gold edition), as well as Windows 7 64bit.

Trying to get Anno 1701 to run on Windows 7 took me months to find a solution online, but I got it working today.

Anno 1701 windowed mode