Getting EU3 to Run on Win10

Quick guide to making the game work in win10

The guide

I got the EU3 itch and it refused to launch, would lock things up nicely tho for win10, had to 'sign out' so its force crash the game because it wouldnt let anything sit on top of it in the main panel area.
I had to do a combination of things
1)the d3dx9_41.dll file. Just google it up, its easy to find. Drop it in the game's base directory(folder) with the eu3game.exe
2)set eu3game.exe for compatibility mode WinXP SP3
3)run as admin
4)disable fullscreen optimization(this one threw me for a bit. I could get it to load in windowed but not fullscreen then I happened to look at the compatibility tab again, saw this and tried it for lack of other ideas.

This done it works just fine now and launches via steam properly as well, but no steam overlay.

[Tyrranus]

lol

[Thepersonwithoutanyname]

At first: Play the game, no problems.
Then come back after a while: game doesn't start.
Try all the fixes: None work
Uninstall and reinstall: works perfectly
Old software is like magic

[Tyrranus]

I did

[ThulêanEVJOYER]

well just use gog version

[Tyrranus]

congrats!

[ThulêanEVJOYER]

now i can suffer with ottom revolts

[ThulêanEVJOYER]

crashes on gen interface tutorial

[ThulêanEVJOYER]

i have sound

[ThulêanEVJOYER]

well took alot of tinkering but it workes just had to install d3dx9, mfc42 and msctf using protontricks and setting it to windows 2000 helped i presume becuse it work now

[Tyrranus]

cant help with that either Im afraid. Never used a linux based system for more than 5m