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Jagged Alliance 2 on Windows 8
LordQuentium
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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 (08/12/2012)
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Re: Jagged Alliance 2 on Windows 8 [Re: LordQuentium]

Tais
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My anti Win8 sentiment would say "upgrade to Windows 7"
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Re: Jagged Alliance 2 on Windows 8 [Re: Tais]
LordQuentium
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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:
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Posts: 2 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:
Quote:
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.html
3) 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.
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Re: Jagged Alliance 2 on Windows 8 [Re: LordQuentium]
Siresmithnj

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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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Re: Jagged Alliance 2 on Windows 8 [Re: LordQuentium]
RoWa21

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I added the fix and a short ReadMe to the SVN GameDir:
https://ja2svn.dyndns.org/source/ja2_v1.13_data/GameDir/Windows%208%20Fix.zip
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Re: Jagged Alliance 2 on Windows 8 [Re: LordQuentium]
Thor
The game works in window-mode if you adjust the ini editor settings and Ja2.exe properties as mentioned above, even without
copying or extracting these files.
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Re: Jagged Alliance 2 on Windows 8 [Re: RoWa21]
GARRRRNOVE

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Posts: 10
Originally Posted By: RoWa21
I added the fix and a short ReadMe to the SVN GameDir:
https://ja2svn.dyndns.org/source/ja2_v1.13_data/GameDir/Windows%208%20Fix.zip
You should delete point 4 in your readme file and include it in point 3. You cant set your desktop to 16 bit color mode in Windows 8.
The only thing you can do is to configure the compatibility settings of an application to 16 bit color mode.
Edited by GARRRRNOVE (22/06/2013)
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Re: Jagged Alliance 2 on Windows 8 [Re: LordQuentium]
patchmasterdoom

Registered:
22/10/2012
Posts: 5
Loc: United States
Originally Posted By: LordQuentium
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:
Quote:
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.html
3) 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
^This has solved multiple problems for me with different games. I have a whole mess of GOG games that I like to play.
So far these .dll files have fixed:
Crusader: No Regret - Only movies were jerky, so I dumped it in that file folder. Bam! Fixed!
Arma Gold
Icewind Dale
I'm not sure that this will fix every choppy Windows 8 vs. old game issue, but it has worked for all the ones I have ran in to.
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