JA2 and Win10

[Jimmious]

Man, the fact that someone hates an operating system so much as to sit and write a list of bullshit to promote his thoughts, is amazing. We live in an era of wonders indeed.
In other news, Win10 are fine apart from specific functionalities as always with new versions of Windows. They are though much faster than 8 or 7 which is great since I'm working on them daily.
Also personally, I only had issues with running Distant Worlds: Universe which I solved kinda easily in the end.

All the rest are too much edge for no reason - or just because something is new and we hate it. Which is fine I guess but..

 

[Severian Silk]

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[Tomatohead]

I recently reinstalled JA2 1.13 and had some issues with it on Win10. However after googling around I got it working both in windowed mode and fullscreen and I played it on few occasions. But my brain is empty, I don't really remember what I did. I need to check my bookmarks if I see something which reminds me.

But now after not playing for 1+ months launching the game it complains "cannot automatically change desktop color depth to 16 bit" and doesn't start... I haven't changed anything regarding my launch shortcuts. This is really weird.

 

[AetherVagrant]

I recently reinstalled JA2 1.13 and had some issues with it on Win10. However after googling around I got it working both in windowed mode and fullscreen and I played it on few occasions. But my brain is empty, I don't really remember what I did. I need to check my bookmarks if I see something which reminds me.

But now after not playing for 1+ months launching the game it complains "cannot automatically change desktop color depth to 16 bit" and doesn't start... I haven't changed anything regarding my launch shortcuts. This is really weird.

I run into this sometimes, not all the time. Usually I use "reduced color mode" under compatibility settings. No idea why it works sometimes and not others, could be gfx drivers or win10 updates...but often this fixes it. Between the ui, the difficulty, and issues on modern OS, this has been one of the most frustrating games to play...I give it a mission once a week or so.

 

[ShadowSpectre]

If you have a gold-pack CD copy of JA2, usually when it installs it will let you play without a CD in and runs great. I don't know about adding 1.13 to it, but vanilla works fine so long as you don't alt-tab.

 

[Severian Silk]

Can you run Wine on Windows? How does JA2 play in Wine?

 

[Tomatohead]

There are Wine wrapper libraries ported for Windows. They help with old games on occasion. I don't think I have used that if I'm sure about it. I think there was an issue with Wined3d where as older version of the dll files was needed in order for JA2 to work. But thing is that I have had lot of stuff happening last couple of months and I really can't remember what I did with JA2

https://sourceforge.net/projects/wined3d4win/

What I have been using more often is dgVoodoo2. It's neat wrapper to use when game is supporting old directx games to make it work in better fashion. Or to work around some gimped stuff happening. Like here, fixing Splinter Cell rendering (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpos...490be2d9075b465b929&p=227791143&postcount=178).

http://dege.freeweb.hu/

I did lot of testing with some titles. I managed to get ReShade working on Wizardry 8 and also on Might & Magic VI. This is just a test to show the reshade stuff on M&M6, I like to play with CRT stuff. dgVoodoo2 complains about virus (at least my Firefox did not sure what will happen now) when downloading it but I can assure you it's clean. I have done numerous malware tests on the binaries.

I'm going to try to do some more testing with JA2 at some point, hopefully this weekend.

Also not related to JA2 but I was hoping at some point to try to use one of these on Grimoire to see if it can help with windowed rendering. I like to play in borderless window and so on as well. But I'm not sure as it's pure GDI application.