Can't Play Darkest Hour

[Commonblob]

I bought this game yesterday because there was a sale and because of how much praise I've seen for this game across many websites. First time I launched I had the mouse lag thing. So I found the thread on how to fix DH for windows 8. After I changed colour settings, the game was able to launch but the lag was still there. Used notepad++ to change the game to windowed mode but now the game crashes on startup :'(
Anyone else have this problem? (I'm on 1.04 because that's the patch that downloaded from steam and I'm launching straight from the exe)

 

[ConjurerDragon]

For technical problems there is the techsupport subforum
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?forums/darkest-hour-tech-support.617/

 

[Commonblob]

For technical problems there is the techsupport subforum
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?forums/darkest-hour-tech-support.617/

In that case maybe a mod can move it there.


Anyway after trying many, many things posted in the sticky thread and not having much success, I've finally found a way to fix the game. It came from this post:

Here's "my" method:
Download ddraw: http://bitpatch.com/ddwrapper.html
put the ddraw.dll and aqrit.cfg inside the Darkest Hour folder
edit the aqrit.cfg and change ForceDirectDrawEmulation from 0 to 1. Save the file.
Right click on Darkest Hour.exe and set the colour mode to 16bit




Done.

Much thanks to @Zheng, his solution should be put in the sticky's OP in the list with the others.

 

[mad_otter]

You should also update your game to 1.5.1 by right clicking on properties in your steam library and selecting it in the Beta section.