This game work on Win10?

[DiabloMuerto]

Thinking about grabbing this just for nostalgia's sake, was one of my favorite games form my youth. Just curious if it will actually run on modern rigs?

[Kvantovy]

It works for some people and doesn't work for others. For me it works with no problems on win 10.

[MagicD3VIL]

I'm running it on Win 7 with no problems. You can always ask for help here :P

EDIT: Also I bought it on Steam for same reason as you addressed xD I always love getting back to this game

[Ludeman]

Works fine with Win10 for me!

[Agrathore]

The only problem I have with this game is the black screen, but I fixed that by changing the resolution

[Lou the Lou]

I remember running into some issue, but getting around it by simply running the executable from the folder rather than launching it through Steam. Can't remember what the problem was, though.

[Lemmster]

This game worked passibly on Win10 for me.

It did encounter what as far as I know is a common DX7 game issue, that it won't deal with fullscreen properly on modern hardware and hangs / drops frames frequently. You can get around this if you can stomach it by running in windowed mode.

1. Right click Hostile Waters in your steam library.
2. Click Properties.
3. Click the 'Local Files' tab.
4. Click 'Browse Local Files...'
(You should now see Windows Explorer open with the address {your steam directory here}/Steam/steamapps/common/Hostile Waters Antaeus Rising
5.Right click 'HostileWaters.exe' (NOT HostileSetup.exe)
6.Click 'Create Shortcut' in the menu
('HostileWaters.exe - Shortcut' should now appear in the folder)
7. Drag 'HostileWaters.exe - Shortcut' somewhere more useful. i.e. your desktop,
8. Right Click 'HostileWaters.exe - Shortcut'
9. Click 'Properties' in the menu.
10. In the properties menu, click the text box to the right of 'Target:'
11. Hold direction right (or press end) until your at the end of the value in target.
12. Append ' -windowed' to the end of the target without the ''.
(it should now appear as {somethingsomethingsomething}\HostileWaters.exe" -windowed)
i.e. {"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Hostile Waters Antaeus Rising\HostileWaters.exe" -windowed} without the {}
13. If you want to use cheats, also append " -someonesetusupthebomb" without the ""
i.e. {"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Hostile Waters Antaeus Rising\HostileWaters.exe" -windowed -setusupthebomb} without the {}
14. Start the game through the shortcut. (NOT THROUGH STEAM)
15. Enjoy an epic ahead of its time and surprisingly gracefully aged RTS game.

(Note, setting Launch Options within Steam itself will not work for this game, as Steam starts the games configurator launcher which is not the same as the main game .exe)

Its also slightly crash prone during game (Once every 2-3 missions for me). (I seem to recall it was like that originally too) so remember to save often!

[It Follows]

Originally posted by Lemmster:

This game worked passibly on Win10 for me.

It did encounter what as far as I know is a common DX7 game issue, that it won't deal with fullscreen properly on modern hardware and hangs / drops frames frequently. You can get around this if you can stomach it by running in windowed mode.

1. Right click Hostile Waters in your steam library.
2. Click Properties.
3. Click the 'Local Files' tab.
4. Click 'Browse Local Files...'
(You should now see Windows Explorer open with the address {your steam directory here}/Steam/steamapps/common/Hostile Waters Antaeus Rising
5.Right click 'HostileWaters.exe' (NOT HostileSetup.exe)
6.Click 'Create Shortcut' in the menu
('HostileWaters.exe - Shortcut' should now appear in the folder)
7. Drag 'HostileWaters.exe - Shortcut' somewhere more useful. i.e. your desktop,
8. Right Click 'HostileWaters.exe - Shortcut'
9. Click 'Properties' in the menu.
10. In the properties menu, click the text box to the right of 'Target:'
11. Hold direction right (or press end) until your at the end of the value in target.
12. Append ' -windowed' to the end of the target without the ''.
(it should now appear as {somethingsomethingsomething}\HostileWaters.exe" -windowed)
i.e. {"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Hostile Waters Antaeus Rising\HostileWaters.exe" -windowed} without the {}
13. If you want to use cheats, also append " -someonesetusupthebomb" without the ""
i.e. {"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Hostile Waters Antaeus Rising\HostileWaters.exe" -windowed -setusupthebomb} without the {}
14. Start the game through the shortcut. (NOT THROUGH STEAM)
15. Enjoy an epic ahead of its time and surprisingly gracefully aged RTS game.

(Note, setting Launch Options within Steam itself will not work for this game, as Steam starts the games configurator launcher which is not the same as the main game .exe)

Its also slightly crash prone during game (Once every 2-3 missions for me). (I seem to recall it was like that originally too) so remember to save often!

GOD BLESS YOU!!!

[SaToM388]

is not work in my

[Đeath’ş Aļļ | Horst Fuchs]

God of gaming surely hates me, no change to ever run this game, ever.
And paradoxly, I already own 2 legal copies, Steam one was almost for free, but original CDROM cost around 5 bucks in 2009. Both of them are unrunable on every PC of mine after age of Windows XP.

CD-ROM version simply cant be installed at all, it keep yealling access violation at 00000000 and some blabla in moment I accept license agreement AND CRASH.

And Steam one? I was able to run it exactly once with help of dgVoodoo. Sadly game started somehow overstretched, I could see only middle part of main menu and aeverything in there was huge. So I quit, changed few things in dgVoodoo and since those times game doesnt run anymore. I can only get into point where i see loading HW screen and then game always crash and close with no message. Whatever I set in dgVoodoo or in game hardware settings game still crashes. Genius.

So, I guess my last chance is to steal (no more paying for this) GOG version and hope.

[Tritoch]

Originally posted by Đeath’ş Aļļ | Horst Fuchs:

God of gaming surely hates me, no change to ever run this game, ever.
And paradoxly, I already own 2 legal copies, Steam one was almost for free, but original CDROM cost around 5 bucks in 2009. Both of them are unrunable on every PC of mine after age of Windows XP.

CD-ROM version simply cant be installed at all, it keep yealling access violation at 00000000 and some blabla in moment I accept license agreement AND CRASH.

And Steam one? I was able to run it exactly once with help of dgVoodoo. Sadly game started somehow overstretched, I could see only middle part of main menu and aeverything in there was huge. So I quit, changed few things in dgVoodoo and since those times game doesnt run anymore. I can only get into point where i see loading HW screen and then game always crash and close with no message. Whatever I set in dgVoodoo or in game hardware settings game still crashes. Genius.

So, I guess my last chance is to steal (no more paying for this) GOG version and hope.

change your resolution to 4:3 resolution, or use widescreen patch.

[Lonewolf]

I did used to run it in Windows 10 a few years ago. Now it does not install. Also note that it tries for force install Direct Draw 7 in 2025. So now the game is basically malware.

[Đeath’ş Aļļ | Horst Fuchs]

No, its no more worth of time wasted by experimenting.
Chance to play it under W10 or 11 is obviously minimal after all those old DirectX and old protections weird unfriendly updates of modern Windows (thank you Bill Gates). I recommend to use some virtual PC emulating old hardware like a Pentium IV, Riva TNT 2 or maybe some VooDoo graphic and 128MB RAM with installed Windows 98 SE or 2000, such setup should be optimal for DX7 games. Good tool for this magic is PCem for example.

You can even find such preinstalled packs like that for example on archive.org site if you look a little.