unplayable on windows 10/11

[Dknife]

anything larger than 1080p will crash - no matter what
1080p in windowed will work, but you will play in windowed - not fullscreen window
1080p fullscreen will work once a blue moon - it happened to me once and
after a while the game still crashed....when i was about to win a quite annoying map
yea...unless the devs finally fix their resulution bugs i would say, that this game is unplayable

[InfernusMatrix]

This is a Windows issue and not the game. Newer versions of Windows do not handle old DX7 based games correctly. This game engine is old from the XP era and runs emulated through DX9.

You may be able to fix the issue by installing direct play. Which is not part of the standard install on most Windows 10 systems and newer. The development kit used to make this game was called Blitz3D.

[Dknife]

Originally posted by InfernusMatrix:

This is a Windows issue and not the game. Newer versions of Windows do not handle old DX7 based games correctly. This game engine is old from the XP era and runs emulated through DX9.

You may be able to fix the issue by installing direct play. Which is not part of the standard install on most Windows 10 systems and newer. The development kit used to make this game was called Blitz3D.

thank you for the input - ill try the direct play fix next time i come arount to play it - its not like i dislike the game - i love the style and gameplay - thats why i start it up every couple years and that is why i was disappointed. when it started crashing - i just checked the requirements and win 7/10 and 11 isnt even mentioned - maybe next time i'll just use a vm with xp to get around the issue

[InfernusMatrix]

Also the game I think detects what resolutions your systems supports, but that doesn't meant the engine can handle it. 2048x1536 max screen resolution for DX7 this could be perhaps patched if you had the DX SDK but stuff like that isnt exactly easy to find anymore.

Also 2048x1536 works on some systems but not all. I think this is more of an issue if you have an integrated GPU.