#312897 - 08 December, 2012 08:59 PM
Jagged Alliance 2 on Windows 8
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Hello everyone,
I recently re-picked up JA2 in the steam sales, installed it, and when I try to run it it plays the first seconds of the first intro movie thing, and then the screen just stays black.
I've tried looking for a solution online but it looks like no one is having this problem.
I have tried to reinstall twice now with no success, can you guys help?
Thanks
Edited by LordQuentium (08 December, 2012 09:00 PM)
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#312970 - 11 December, 2012 09:21 PM
Re: Jagged Alliance 2 on Windows 8
[Re: Tais]
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To be fair, that would have been easier than what I had to do.  This is for anyone in my boat: Turns out all I needed to do to get the game to run, was install v1.13, which was what I was intending to do anyway. However after doing this, the game ran really laggy. To fix this, you: The solution: ...is to make JA2 engine run on WineD3D instead of regular DirectX. WineD3D is a component of Wine and is generally used to run Windows apps on non-Win systems, but can also be used on Windows. How to do that: 1) Download wined3d.exe from http://www.nongnu.org/wined3d/2) Don't run the program! instead, extract it's contents with 7Zip or somesuch http://www.7-zip.org/download.html3) Copy ddraw.dll, libwine.dll and wined3d.dll from extracted $SYSWIN folder into the root folder of your JA2 installation (e.g. C:\Games\Jagged Alliance 2 Gold\) 4) Run the game. It may take a bit longer to start 5) Enjoy one of the best games ever in as high FPS as your hardware can handle Thanks to phoenicksCZ for that last fix. http://www.bears-pit.com/board/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/topic/13510/gonew/1.html
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#313313 - 19 December, 2012 04:55 AM
Re: Jagged Alliance 2 on Windows 8
[Re: LordQuentium]
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This was on the Steam Forums, posted by Reknot
"And so I found a quick and easy way of getting it to work.
Steps;
1, Install Jagged Alliance 2
2, Download and extract 1.13 FullRelease 4870
3, Download and extract 1.13 Update for 4870
4, Edit in 'Ja2.ini' in your game folder
4a, PLAY_INTRO = 0 [It's the intro that borks up the start process]
5, Now open properties on ja2.exe and in Compatibilty check
5a, Run in XP SP3 mode
5b, Reduced color mode, 16bit mode
5c, Run as Administrator."
I followed his suggestions, and it works like a charm.
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#316817 - 30 March, 2013 08:54 PM
Re: Jagged Alliance 2 on Windows 8
[Re: LordQuentium]
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