Does NOT FUNCTION properly on Windows 10

[Philliam]

I downloaded this excited to relive one of my favorite childhood series. Unfortunately, when attempting to play the game runs, but it does not run well, and the screen is super zoomed in on the upper left quadrant of the screen.

Additionally, the mouse doesn't move at all when in the game, it's just stuck in the top left.

Any support would be helpful, I've tried going through ScumMvm and going through compatibility mode but so far nothing works. When I made a shortcut on the desktop and selected it for compatibility mode I got the "Catastrophic Failure" message, not really the great nostalgic experience I was signing up for. HELP!

[Zoron]

I am sorry to hear about yours and some others having issues with running on win10. Unfortunately I myself can off little in service. I run windows 10 and play these to feel the nostalgia sometimes and it runs perfectly fine for me. It actually runs better on 10 for me than on 8.1

[Philliam]

Originally posted by Zoron246:

I am sorry to hear about yours and some others having issues with running on win10. Unfortunately I myself can off little in service. I run windows 10 and play these to feel the nostalgia sometimes and it runs perfectly fine for me. It actually runs better on 10 for me than on 8.1

Can you post any specifics? If it's not the OS than what would cause this to happen? I have a literally brand new system, 6GB vram, SSD, quad-core, yadda yadda yadda why can't I play frickin Spy Fox?

[Zoron]

Originally posted by Tragic Phill:

Originally posted by Zoron246:

I am sorry to hear about yours and some others having issues with running on win10. Unfortunately I myself can off little in service. I run windows 10 and play these to feel the nostalgia sometimes and it runs perfectly fine for me. It actually runs better on 10 for me than on 8.1

Can you post any specifics? If it's not the OS than what would cause this to happen? I have a literally brand new system, 6GB vram, SSD, quad-core, yadda yadda yadda why can't I play frickin Spy Fox?

i just have 6gb of ram, a simple hd graphics with 2gb of vram, and a intel i5 dual core with 3.4ghrz. I have an adapter so I can use a desktop graphics card on it but thats only for higher spec games. not old 90s stuff. the only thing i can think of is that some people have errors because of certain graphics cards and others its a driver thing. Since you have tried compatibility all I can think of is try copying the files from the common folder in the steam files and put them on a flash drive then start it on the flash drive. I had issues running a game once and did that and it was a steam installation error so I had to redownload its steam files. As long as it doesnt have steam some steam only launch limit it should work. If it doesnt work then it might be a graphics card or driver incompatibility.

[Philliam]

Originally posted by Zoron246:

Originally posted by Tragic Phill:

Can you post any specifics? If it's not the OS than what would cause this to happen? I have a literally brand new system, 6GB vram, SSD, quad-core, yadda yadda yadda why can't I play frickin Spy Fox?

i just have 6gb of ram, a simple hd graphics with 2gb of vram, and a intel i5 dual core with 3.4ghrz. I have an adapter so I can use a desktop graphics card on it but thats only for higher spec games. not old 90s stuff. the only thing i can think of is that some people have errors because of certain graphics cards and others its a driver thing. Since you have tried compatibility all I can think of is try copying the files from the common folder in the steam files and put them on a flash drive then start it on the flash drive. I had issues running a game once and did that and it was a steam installation error so I had to redownload its steam files. As long as it doesnt have steam some steam only launch limit it should work. If it doesnt work then it might be a graphics card or driver incompatibility.

So whenever I do the "verify integrity" of the local files it always finds one wrong, fixes it, then I try to play, quit beccause it's messed up, and check integrity again and 1 is wrong again. I wonder if that has anything to do with it. In the meantime, could you explain how to run compatibility? I never know what file to actually select because it's just gibberish to be looking through the local program files. I tried to make a shortcut and select that to get around it but I got that catastrophic failure message. Thanks for talking this out with me man! I appreciate having someone who knows a little bit more about this stuff than I do, I have literally zero pc gaming experience I've just used consols until now.

[Zoron]

Originally posted by Tragic Phill:

Originally posted by Zoron246:

i just have 6gb of ram, a simple hd graphics with 2gb of vram, and a intel i5 dual core with 3.4ghrz. I have an adapter so I can use a desktop graphics card on it but thats only for higher spec games. not old 90s stuff. the only thing i can think of is that some people have errors because of certain graphics cards and others its a driver thing. Since you have tried compatibility all I can think of is try copying the files from the common folder in the steam files and put them on a flash drive then start it on the flash drive. I had issues running a game once and did that and it was a steam installation error so I had to redownload its steam files. As long as it doesnt have steam some steam only launch limit it should work. If it doesnt work then it might be a graphics card or driver incompatibility.

So whenever I do the "verify integrity" of the local files it always finds one wrong, fixes it, then I try to play, quit beccause it's messed up, and check integrity again and 1 is wrong again. I wonder if that has anything to do with it. In the meantime, could you explain how to run compatibility? I never know what file to actually select because it's just gibberish to be looking through the local program files. I tried to make a shortcut and select that to get around it but I got that catastrophic failure message. Thanks for talking this out with me man! I appreciate having someone who knows a little bit more about this stuff than I do, I have literally zero pc gaming experience I've just used consols until now.

I am not sure about that file thing all the time. Skyrim always finds a file wrong as do many games contrary to what many say. for the compatibility thing you go the the scummvm exe and right click go to properties go to compatibility then set it to open as if its windows 7 or any older os you want but 7 recommended. the easy way to get there is by right clicking the game name in your steam library then clicking on open local files or whatever it says and just go to the scummvm folder and the exe is in there.

[MsG-Louth]

I had the same problem. I went to the ScummVM_Windows folder (Steam games - steamapps - common - Spy Fox) --> double clicked on scummvm
Once that program opened, make sure the game you want to play is selected and then select Option on the right side.
Graphics --> Graphics mode : SuperEagle --> Render mode <default> --> ticked aspect ratio correction --> ticked full screen mode
Press start at the right.

This worked for me after I tried to fix it how others said I should but failed those.
Hope this will work for you!