Windows 10 Compatibility List

[Tejszd]

The re-architecting is already done for PiTF/GTC so it would be copying that code into the previous release and changing the graphic images bit depth.....

[Riitaoja]

ORIGINAL: PipFromSlitherine

ORIGINAL: Tejszd

ORIGINAL: Steve McClaire

If the original SSI release of Close Combat 5 works fine (I have not tested this as I do not have the game installed anywhere currently) then it may be some difference in the versions of DirectX Microsoft has decided to support on Windows 8+, and how. As I recall the original code used DirectX 3, which IIRC did not even support a windowed mode. Matrix Games releases use DirectX 9.

The two newer releases (Panthers and Caen) work fine because we did a massive overhaul of the graphics in the Close Combat engine and went to full 32 bit color. And it is the older 16-bit color mode that Windows 8+ no longer supports in full screen.

If there were a simple fix for this we would have done it long ago. It may be possible to revert to older DirectX interfaces and make a separate version of each game that can run full screen (and ONLY full screen), but the only other option I have found to date would be to update all the games to full 32-bit color. And this would be no small amount of work.

Steve

Could you not extract the .tga files files from the container files and via script save them as 24bit or 32bit instead of 16bit so then the game would run full screen at 24/32bit color???

That is not how it works, the issue is not one of asset bitdepth, but that 16bit and 32bit screens are fundamentally different, both in how they need to be accessed for any pixel-level operations, and how they are supported in newer versions of windows. As Steve said, switching to a compatible screen depth (and more version of DX) would require re-architecting the graphic system for the game.

Cheers

Pip

I am still using Windows 7 so I can't test it out myself but for many old games the DXWnd program has been very useful. Perhaps it can be used to run Close Combat on Windos 8 and later? In the video tab of Dxwnd there are many options regarding color management.

link is here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dxwnd/

[PipFromSlitherine]

ORIGINAL: Tejszd

The re-architecting is already done for PiTF/GTC so it would be copying that code into the previous release and changing the graphic images bit depth.....

It's very much not a case of "copying that code". If it were a trivial task we would have done it already.

Cheers

Pip

[barkhorn45]

Combat Command ME runs fine for me.As does SPWAW enh.fr v1.1 except i have a i7 processor and the artillery screen is difficult to use.

[VPaulus]

Conflict of Heroes: Awakening the Bear! - OK
Conflict of Heroes: Ghost Divisions - OK
Conflict of Heroes: Storms of Steel - OK

[zakblood]

main list need updating with others mentioned tbh[&o][&o][&o]

so top list has all them that does and doesn't work at a glance imo[X(][8|][:D][;)]

[aaatoysandmore]

I don't see the Batte Academy's on that list. Do they not work?

[terje439]

Crown of Glory Emperors Edition works fine with win10

[VPaulus]

ORIGINAL: aaatoysandmore

I don't see the Batte Academy's on that list. Do they not work?

Yes.

[aaatoysandmore]

Yes they do not work or yes they do work?

[VPaulus]

Yes, they do work.

[VPaulus]

Decisive Campaigns: The Blitzkrieg from Warsaw to Paris - OK
Decisive Campaigns: Case Blue - OK

Main list updated.

[aaatoysandmore]

Thanks VPaulus. [&o]

[CarnageINC]

Can someone confirm if War Plan Orange is Win10 compatible?

[VPaulus]

ORIGINAL: CarnageINC

Can someone confirm if War Plan Orange is Win10 compatible?

I have just checked and it's like in War in the Pacific, you'll notice some lag.
There are two workarounds:

1. Use -w switch to run in windowed mode (1024x768)

2. Use -deepColor switch to run in stretched full screen (1024x768)

[Raindog101]

I can confirm that Gary Grigsby's Eagle Day to Bombing the Reich works fine on Windows 10.

[zakblood]

Thanks, i'm sure VPaulus will add to list then...

[VPaulus]

Added.

[aaatoysandmore]

Spartan and Troy and all the other games in the series? Spartan won't run on my Vista 64 so was just wondering if anything new changed that?

[JosephM]

Hello aaatoysandmore,

I had tested Spartan and Gates of Troy on Windows 10 and provided you are using the Vista fix it works. Have you tried the fix in the forum below?
http://www.slitherine.com/forum/viewtop ... f=6&t=4611

Also, I've also discovered an issue in Windows 7 where when you are fighting a battle in a walled city, the catapult animation does cause lag. If you do experience this, then I have found ways of minimising this, so let me know if you run into the issue.