Does it actually work?

[|OMEGA|]

I remember trying to install this from The First Decade and absolutely none of those games worked properly under modern Windows even after trying all the community patches and fixes.

[Slaanesh Express]

I had the same issue. Had to jump through a million hoops. Hope this one works then I may even consider it.

[neo_nodtek]

it works for me on win10; I need only to change the .ini files for 720p or 1080p resolutions.... fullscreen movies at 720p or 1080p would be a nice add!

[mbnq]

Instead of adding manually resolutions in the .ini file just change the value of SupportedResolutions to native

SupportedResolutions = native

Then you can change to any res in game options.

[neo_nodtek]

Originally posted by mbnq:

Instead of adding manually resolutions in the .ini file just change the value of SupportedResolutions to native

SupportedResolutions = native

Then you can change to any res in game options.

Thanks, I will try!

[TabularElf]

Compared to the EA version and the original disks I have, this works mooostly well, I've got some weird issues with loading menus whenever I tab out and tab back in, but that's it. This is by far the most playable experience for me

[maestro]

Win11 64-bit here, works fine. Played the first 3 missions, and didn't see a single issue. My monitor didn't complain about the lower resolution, and the one and only thing I can nitpick about, is how the live action video is played in this tiny little box in the center of the screen if you go up to the highest normally allowable resolution, but that's fine. It's a little pixelly because I'm running it at an old 4:3 resolution (the best one they offer).

I can confirm there's no Origin or any stupid launchers, the game loads right up as soon as you boot it from Steam.

They even went the extra mile to preserve aspect ratio and not stretch the image, they put black bars on the sides to keep it 4:3 and that's awesome! The music is all there, and everything is exactly as I remember it.

EDIT2: Okay I can nitpick about one more thing: The missions load too fast to even look at the loading screen for more than 3 seconds, lol. A "press OK to start mission" would have been a nice addition, but eh. That's a tiny nitpick.

[Hopea]

Originally posted by maestro:

Win11 64-bit here, works fine. Played the first 3 missions, and didn't see a single issue. My monitor didn't complain about the lower resolution, and the one and only thing I can nitpick about, is how the live action video is played in this tiny little box in the center of the screen if you go up to the highest normally allowable resolution, but that's fine. It's a little pixelly because I'm running it at an old 4:3 resolution (the best one they offer).

They even went the extra mile to preserve aspect ratio and not stretch the image, they put black bars on the sides to keep it 4:3 and that's awesome! The music is all there, and everything is exactly as I remember it.

id like to know what did you do to get it working as im trying to go on win 11 it doesnt do anything but give me error 51 on start .

[JustMK]

Win10 64 bit, works fine. Sets 640x480x16 by default. Works properly with 1024x768x16.
Menu Network returns you to the Main Menu. Network settings contains no TCP\IP support.
Internet play is unavailable: Westwood service is long gone.
Skirmish menu strangely takes 10 seconds to load.
Skirmish and Campaign are working.

What I did: Just installed the game and pushed "Play".

[maestro]

Originally posted by Hopea:

Originally posted by maestro:

Win11 64-bit here, works fine. Played the first 3 missions, and didn't see a single issue. My monitor didn't complain about the lower resolution, and the one and only thing I can nitpick about, is how the live action video is played in this tiny little box in the center of the screen if you go up to the highest normally allowable resolution, but that's fine. It's a little pixelly because I'm running it at an old 4:3 resolution (the best one they offer).

They even went the extra mile to preserve aspect ratio and not stretch the image, they put black bars on the sides to keep it 4:3 and that's awesome! The music is all there, and everything is exactly as I remember it.

id like to know what did you do to get it working as im trying to go on win 11 it doesnt do anything but give me error 51 on start .

I didn't do anything. Downloaded the game, pressed Play in steam. Booted right up.

I'm running at 1440p native, if you're on 4k maybe it doesn't like 4k? Not sure what else would be going on.

[mbnq]

Guys just read, it doesn't hurt: https://github.com/narzoul/DDrawCompat/wiki/Configuration

[Trey]

Works great! You may have to modify some config/ini files because DirectDraw (the graphics API they used back in 2000 to make this) has fallen into disrepair. It's as easy as opening two (maybe three) files with notepad and changing them, saving, then booting the game.

[Ragnaman]

Works on Linux with Proton, some graphical artifacts, but i havent spent time tweaking configs.

[Terrific_Ivan]

works out of the box for me

[Ethan / Yin]

The game is patched with DDrawCompat, there are a bunch of settings you can change if you press Shift+F11 in-game ... it sometimes doesn't save tho, so I'd advise changing settings in DDrawCompat.ini manually after you try them via overlay in-game.

[JDumbz]

Working just fine with no modding required on my Windows 11 aside from custom resolutions but no method personally works for me. But I'm running 4k so it might just be that reason.