How do I make it run normally on Win 7? It looks terrible, and it runs even worse, and I've no idea what to do.
I think there should be quite a few links and explanations from me buried somewhere in this thread.
In short, you have to set start options for the exe. For Steam, you have to do that in the "Properties" in you Steam library. Here are mine for instance, which set custom screen resolution, restrict it to one CPU core (prevents crashes) and turn the stupid intro video off:
-CustomResolution:enabled -r1920x1080x32 -CPUCount:1 -intro
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Then you need to enable the game to actually use your RAM if you have more than 2 GB. The NAM installer has that as an option to do automatically for you.
If you have an AMD card, you need to put a bit of work into changing a few game files. When the game was made, AMD cards were very shitty, so the game will ignore all advanced settings you made in the ingame options and throttle performance to something unbearable. If there's need, I can see if I find a link to the procedure.