Windows10 compatability - patch?

[Buster's Uncle]

I hear that W10 won't run SMACX.

Yitzi?  Is there any way, any way at all you could investigate fixing that?  It would be an INSANELY popular fix that would get thousands and thousands looking at your patch, you know.

[Dio]

This issue appears to arise after a few new versions of Windows are released.

[Buster's Uncle]

Yeah - comes as no surprise; In suddenly think I know why GOG had a sale last weekend.

Thing is, a W10 fix would be really good for the community...

[BlaneckW]

windows 10 might be a flop as a result of such issues anyway.  It doesn't add anything significant.

[Eadee]

windows 10 might be a flop as a result of such issues anyway.  It doesn't add anything significant.

Oh come on... its not that bad...
I mean... it... it... it adds...

...uh...

... a second numeral digit to the Name of the OS? Thats something! xD

[BlaneckW]

I dream of ReactOS merged with Linux

[Yitzi]

I hear that W10 won't run SMACX.

Yitzi?  Is there any way, any way at all you could investigate fixing that?  It would be an INSANELY popular fix that would get thousands and thousands looking at your patch, you know.

Unfortunately, it's very likely that figuring out why it doesn't work would require digging into Windows 10 in a not-allowed manner.

Can Windows 10 run it in compatibility mode?

Although the list of W10-compatible games does include it, so that would imply that it might work but bugged, in which case it could probably be fixed if I upgrade to W10.

[Buster's Uncle]

Petek says GOG claims its version runs on W10, but not that it will necessarily survive future W10 updates.

[Yitzi]

Petek says GOG claims its version runs on W10, but not that it will necessarily survive future W10 updates.

Sounds like it probably uses deprecated stuff, and I don't think that can be viably fixed via .exe modding.

[Buster's Uncle]

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=551242

Has anyone gotten SMAC or SMAX to run on Windows 10? If so, please post here and describe which version of SMAC or SMAX you used (original release, Planetary Pack, Laptop collection, Sold-out Software, GOG or something else) and which, if any unofficial patches (scient, Yitzi, Kyrub, something else) you had installed. If you tried to run SMACX on Windows 10, but weren't able to do so, please provide the same information as requested above. I recently read that older games (such as most versions of SMACX) that use DRM might be causing problems with Windows 10.

Several gamers have had problems running the game on Windows 10. If the problem is widespread, the future of SMACX looks bleak unless we can find a workaround. Thanks.

Anyone interested in poking around?  This is potentially VERY important...

[DrazharLn]

Lxndr in the PRACX thread had the GOG version of SMACX running in Windows 10 when PRACX was disabled.

[Lxndr]

I can confirm it is running for me in Windows 10, but PRACX causes it to crash.

(I also had trouble running it from disc, but GOG is fine)

[Buster's Uncle]

At first it didn't work for me on Windows 10.

Windows prompted me to install Directplay and the game began to work as normal.

I am running Yitzi's latest patch and a no-cd.

*This is a GOG version I bought awhile ago.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=13942818&postcount=7

[DrazharLn]

Who knows what they're actually running: GOG SMAC doesn't need a no-cd crack.

DirectPlay story might be useful, though.

[Doux2222]

Perhaps this has been reported already, but I would like to state that SMAC/SMAX work fine under Windows 10 for me!

I have the Mastertronic DVD, and I think I had to install DirectX 9.0c for it to work. Also, I had to remove dplayx.dll since it gave an error, but I don't recall if it was a patch/custom dll or if it was present all along... Also, I had to disable high-DPI scaling (but this is because I use DPI scaling).