WILL SOMEONE PLEASE GIVE ME A STEP BY STEP TO GET THIS TO RUN ON WINDOWS 10

[Nekronightmare]

If I try to launch it with Direct3D8, it wont launch, if I change it to OpenGL, it crashes at the beginning of mission 2 with an "unrecoverable error". There are so many of you playing it, I don't know why you refuse to tell someone how to get it to run. So PLEASE, someone, help me play the game.

[Don42]

If you haven't yet had any luck with common other potential solutions like Windows compatibility modes, then check out a 3rd party tool called dgVoodoo 2 ;
Here's a summary of what it does:

dgVoodoo 2 is a graphics wrapper that converts old graphics APIs to Direct3D 11 for use on Windows 7/8/10.
Fixes many compatibility and rendering issues when running old games on modern systems as well as enables various overrides and enhancements.
Enables the use of third-party tools, such as ReShade, to enhance or improve the gaming experience.

[Nekronightmare]

Originally posted by Don42:

If you haven't yet had any luck with common other potential solutions like Windows compatibility modes, then check out a 3rd party tool called dgVoodoo 2 ;
Here's a summary of what it does:

dgVoodoo 2 is a graphics wrapper that converts old graphics APIs to Direct3D 11 for use on Windows 7/8/10.
Fixes many compatibility and rendering issues when running old games on modern systems as well as enables various overrides and enhancements.
Enables the use of third-party tools, such as ReShade, to enhance or improve the gaming experience.

I tried to use it, but I have no idea how to work it.

[ED209]

I had trouble getting it to run on Windows 10 too. I cannot guarantee that it will work for you too but I will tell you what I did to get in running

First, view the application file (enclave.exe) within the game’s directory.
Right click on it and chose ‘Properties’. Then choose the ‘Compatibility’ tab.
Check the box for ‘Run this program in compatibility mode for’. Select ‘Windows XP (service pack 2)’ from the drop down list.
Then check the box for ‘Run in 640 x 480 screen resolution’.
To finish off, click the ‘Apply’ box and then ‘OK’.
Now try running the game and see if it works.

Apologies if this is all very basic stuff that you have already tried - I thought i'd post it just in case.

Good luck!

[Nekronightmare]

Originally posted by ED209:

I had trouble getting it to run on Windows 10 too. I cannot guarantee that it will work for you too but I will tell you what I did to get in running

First, view the application file (enclave.exe) within the game’s directory.
Right click on it and chose ‘Properties’. Then choose the ‘Compatibility’ tab.
Check the box for ‘Run this program in compatibility mode for’. Select ‘Windows XP (service pack 2)’ from the drop down list.
Then check the box for ‘Run in 640 x 480 screen resolution’.
To finish off, click the ‘Apply’ box and then ‘OK’.
Now try running the game and see if it works.

Apologies if this is all very basic stuff that you have already tried - I thought i'd post it just in case.

Good luck!

I just saw this and I will def try. I ended up getting the game on GoG to see if that would help but it didnt. If this doesn't work I can only assume none of the other fixes work on a GTX 750 ti and I just wont ever get to play the game ever again.

[Nekronightmare]

Originally posted by ED209:

I had trouble getting it to run on Windows 10 too. I cannot guarantee that it will work for you too but I will tell you what I did to get in running

First, view the application file (enclave.exe) within the game’s directory.
Right click on it and chose ‘Properties’. Then choose the ‘Compatibility’ tab.
Check the box for ‘Run this program in compatibility mode for’. Select ‘Windows XP (service pack 2)’ from the drop down list.
Then check the box for ‘Run in 640 x 480 screen resolution’.
To finish off, click the ‘Apply’ box and then ‘OK’.
Now try running the game and see if it works.

Apologies if this is all very basic stuff that you have already tried - I thought i'd post it just in case.

Good luck!

Yeah, thanks again but it didnt work. I tried to use the voodoo wrap someone made, everything. I dont know what the problem is. Play some Enclave for me, dude. I will never be able to again.

[Big Fat Travis]

Alright man I figured this out for us. I was having the same exact issue as you, and took Don42's post into consideration and looked up dgvoodoo2. Here's what I did to get my game to run past the first mission:

1. Make sure VID_RENDER is set to Direct3D8 in your environment.cfg file in the game's directory.

2. Download dgvoodoo2 from his site, and extract the zip file to a folder somewhere.

3. Run dgVoodooCpl.exe and go over to the DirectX tab, then uncheck dgVoodoo watermark at the bottom. Make sure the folder selected at the top is the folder you extracted everything to. Click apply then ok.

4. Copy dgVoodoo.conf and the contents of the MS\x86 folder to the root of your game's directory.

5. Launch the game and double check your settings in game. My refresh rate was changed to 23Hz after making these changes so I had to turn that back up to 144Hz.

I just got it working and only played for about 30 seconds before typing this up, so I can't say whether this will be a stable fix just yet, but so far it seems fine.

Let me know if any of those steps were too vague, hopefully this gets you up and running too.

[Nekronightmare]

Originally posted by Big Fat Travis:

Alright man I figured this out for us. I was having the same exact issue as you, and took Don42's post into consideration and looked up dgvoodoo2. Here's what I did to get my game to run past the first mission:

1. Make sure VID_RENDER is set to Direct3D8 in your environment.cfg file in the game's directory.

2. Download dgvoodoo2 from his site, and extract the zip file to a folder somewhere.

3. Run dgVoodooCpl.exe and go over to the DirectX tab, then uncheck dgVoodoo watermark at the bottom. Make sure the folder selected at the top is the folder you extracted everything to. Click apply then ok.

4. Copy dgVoodoo.conf and the contents of the MS\x86 folder to the root of your game's directory.

5. Launch the game and double check your settings in game. My refresh rate was changed to 23Hz after making these changes so I had to turn that back up to 144Hz.

I just got it working and only played for about 30 seconds before typing this up, so I can't say whether this will be a stable fix just yet, but so far it seems fine.

Let me know if any of those steps were too vague, hopefully this gets you up and running too.

This did indeed work. Instead of messing up on the second level, it let me play it. Then I spent a couple more hours playing because this game is just too good. Thank you so much.

[Big Fat Travis]

Originally posted by necroknightmare:

This did indeed work. Instead of messing up on the second level, it let me play it. Then I spent a couple more hours playing because this game is just too good. Thank you so much.

You're welcome, glad I could help!

[tanino]

Anyone know how to get this game to work on Windows 11? I tried all solutions in this thread and none of them work, the game simply crashes on launch without displaying anything but a black screen if I try to use dgVoodoo2, even if I follow instructions perfectly.

[King of Yugoslavia]

Originally posted by tanino:

Anyone know how to get this game to work on Windows 11? I tried all solutions in this thread and none of them work, the game simply crashes on launch without displaying anything but a black screen if I try to use dgVoodoo2, even if I follow instructions perfectly.

1. Install linux
2. install this game
3. if it doesn't work, than force compatibility tool Proton 8
4. that's it
linux has higher chances to run old games better with proton compatibility layer.
By the way, you can install linux side by side with windows, without ruining your current windows installation. The GUI linux installers like Calamares can shrink your windws partition (if you have free space), and get spare space for linux. You need around 40GB if you are going to install a lot of big packages on linux. also linux can read and write on any windows filesystems, be it fat, exfat or ntfs. so trying out linux is painless.

[Slybo]

REAL TEXT:
1) Download dgVoodoo2: http://dege.freeweb.hu/dgVoodoo2/dgVoodoo2/

2) Extract "dgVoodooCpl.exe" & "dgVoodoo.conf" into the root of your Enclave install location. (where Encalve.exe is located)

3) From the "MS/x86 folder, extract the file "D3D8.dll" into the root of your Enclave install location. (where Encalve.exe is located)

4) Run "dgVoodooCpl.exe"
From the "DirectX" tab set your Anisotropic, Antialiasing, and Resolution settings. When you are done, click APPLY and run the game.

The wrapper will now force the game to display at whatever resolution you choose. Ideally this should be the same as your desktop resolution.
You should still try to match the resolution settings as close as possible within the games option menus for maximum image quality.

PROTIP:
If you have weird stuttering with the mouse controls, turn your mouse's DPI down to ~500 more or less.

[Dr. Egon Cholakian]

I did all this and it still crashes of mackelon level :(