Darkest hour on win10 - The next one. Sorry...

[Fridgeman]

Hello folks. I would not post this, if i had not tried everything i came across so far on suggestions on the internet.

After loosing my DH cd years back, aswell as my old PC, i decided to grab DH again today.
I got DH from steam, installed it on my Win10 machine, did not update (so its 1.04).

I activated direct play. Set .exe to run 16-bit, administrator, changed settings.cfg to windowed mode.
Copied ddraw.dll and aqrit.cfg to DH folder... Started right from .exe, and with launcher too (intro disabled).
Repaired and re-installed it.

So far, every single try gives me a black infinite loading screen, while the windowed mode tries gave me a white
window infinite loading.

Event viewer:
Provider
[ Name] Application Hang
- EventID 1002
[ Qualifiers] 0
Level 2
Task 101
Keywords 0x80000000000000
- TimeCreated
[ SystemTime] 2019-04-18T20:58:28.443238100Z
EventRecordID 26103
Channel Application
Computer Fridge
Security
- EventData
Darkest Hour.exe
1.0.4.0
1b58
01d4f629646dc3e8

Anymore suggestions before i refund it with a broken heart?

I loved this game, and want to give it some hours while im ill at home.

P.S. on my system i run old games, like Jagged Alliance 2 and Fallout 1-2,
so really no idea why DH would not work.

 

[^_AC_^]

Usually only Direct Play as legacy component is needed, at most with compatibility mode.
Try updating to 1.05 or 1.05.1. See instructios for Steam users here: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/darkest-hour-patch-1-05.1058633/

 

[Fridgeman]

Same problem with version 1.05, aswell as 1.05.1. Tried Vista SP 2 compability mode aswell as XP SP 3 mode.
Thanks for your help nontheless. Support aswell told to upgrade to 1.05, so it seems my machine will not run the game, after all suggestions have been tried.

 

[eeeex]

Try running DH.exe with dedicated graphics card and not with the integrated one.

 

[Patar]

Whenever I try and play this, I have resolution issues. By that, I mean that the game is boxed in and out of alignment with my computer, so I can only see part of the screen. The rest is blacked out.