I am not fussed about Steam keys, but having got this in the Winter Sale (aptly, given the subject..) it would be particularly lovely to see some movement on doing whatever is necessary to get the ACW mods released. Does it really need a rewrite/third generation engine to fix the issue that's the re...

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=26368 seems to work. I note the 'supported OSes' stop at Windows 7! You (I) need the x86 (32-bit) version installed, because just having the x64 (64-bit) one doesn't enable it to work here. Unlike the VC++2010 redistributables, it looks like y...

These inevitably make a noise when you mouse over one of the buttons. Ones that make a 'radio squawk' noise (some SSG games in particular do this) are especially annoying. Apart from just ignoring them and having shortcuts to the programs themselves - or muting the whole PC's sound - is there any wa...

Typically, you can just run the upgrade .exe file from its compressed .zip file.

It will (usually) know where you installed the orginal version of the game.

The linked to file no longer exists at microsoft.com

Where is it now?

I did have this working on another machine, but not on this new install (the side-by-side new configuration problem)

Ah, was it only just over 18 months ago that I started playing this again?! https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/view ... 7#p4779787 suggests that yes, it was, and it wasn't as easy as suggested if you start from 1.00.

It's the Win2K PC mentioned there that has definitely died.

I see from https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/view ... p?p=494132 that it may be assuming that it's running on something with IDE drives and being fussy about what's a 'master' and what's a 'slave' on up to two channels.

Sorry, but that was years ago: this is a USB CD drive pretending to be SATA.

The PC that this did run on has gone to silicon heaven, and I would rather like to be able to continue playing it. On a five year old Windows 10 PC (Win10 22H2), I have tried installing and running the CD 1.00 version. This really wants to be installed from a CD, doesn't it? Finding an external CD d...

Matrix knew I had bought two of the DLC here. As I didn't have the base game from here, it could only have been for the Steam keys to use there with the base game bought there or from another store. As it happens, I had redeemed them a while back. But I can't find any email going 'Oh, remember those...

Just don't use a promo code, or the price will go up!

I'm wondering who thought it was a good idea to charge more for GG's War Between the States on its own than for DLC for GG's War in the East.. which currently includes the former for free as well.

Was it to make the offer seem more valuable??

.. if your speakers aren't plugged in? I've just got a new (second-hand) PC that can be dedicated to all the Slitherine-published games from Steam and all the ones from here, so I have been happily installing them all again. All the Steam ones work. The ancient and medieval ones from here work, but ...

<t> "DirectX setup has determined that a newer or equivalent version of DirectX has been installed already. No installation is necessary."<br/> <br/> After doing that, if I run the main game after doing the configuration it shows the splash screen, and gets to the main menu. But the mouse becomes un...

I will give it a go, but my solution was to run Windows 7 in a virtual machine and play it in that...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: superian<br/> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: TimOusley<br/> <br/> 3. My grandson is enthralled with the Final Countdown movie but he wanted to see the fight. Is that scenario still modeled in the Matrix version?<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> Was it in the DOS versio...

<t> I've tried installing (again 1.00 retail, 1.10 patch, 1.11 patch, 1.12b patch, all as an Administrator) on a Windows 2000 SP4 machine and this time the error is that, from 1.10, the game requires the MS VC++ 6.00 redistributable DLL (msvcp60.dll) but does not install a copy itself.<br/> <br/> I ...

<t> Also not starting here.<br/> <br/> (Retail 1.00, updated to 1.10. then 1.11, then 1.12b with the patches here, all run as administrator. There's no obvious way to attach dxdiag output.)<br/> <br/> <br/> Oh, for anyone else, the first time I tried installing this plus the 1.12b patch, if I tried ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: TimOusley<br/> <br/> 1. Is the Matrix $39 version Win 10 compatible or do I need DOSBOX?<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> It's a Windows game, and it does run under Windows 10 (see 'windows 10 test' here)<br/> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>2. Is this the game that seems to be r...

<t> Ah, the 'looks very like a CD-R' with the serial number printed on it in the box is still readable, and I have an optical disc drive..<br/> <br/> .. and it will install from there.<br/> <br/> Given the other (unanswered) complaints about this here, I wonder if the physical disc installer is look...

<t> The other one I'm having problems with is this one - both installer and patch run as administrator, allowed the former to do a DotNet and DirectX install, the resulting exe files run as administrator:<br/> <br/> 1) Map Maker runs (but complains about not being able to reach maps dot google dot c...