It has been many years since I had the game installed, but I know there is a Version 1.10 official patch from Interactive Magic. Did you apply that? The filename for the patch is ipanz110.zip

ah okay, - my version is 1.08. I found that 1.10 patch, but unfortunately the patch is an exe that doesnt work in windows 10. i made the exe into a rar to open it, but inside is a setup.lid file which i think would need to opened up further to get teh patch contents out - is there a way to do this?

edit - actually that lid file is only 48 bytes but the whoe patch is 17mg so i really understand how that could be, but i guess i cant really open up the file to get teh patched files out of it to put int the ipanzer folder

Since iPanzer '44 isn't listed in the nGlide compatibility list, it might pay to ask your question in the nGlide forum. In any event, I imagine Zeus might be interested in your results with the game as a starting point for support.

thanks for s the suggestion, yes i might ask there, though i dont want to burden Zeus anymore, as there has been an ongoign effort over the years to get M1 Tank Platoons glide working and that is still broken

No "glide" or "grGlideInit" in binary files...
Looks like a false positive - the game is software/d3d only.

thanks - that is very interesting as the readme for it goes into some detail listing hte 3dfx cards and their compatibility - strange why the shipped version is missing this and the patches lack it to from what i can tell - never mind, i do have it working well enough in windows 10 on software setting now

"-vtarget 3dfx" just selects Voodoo1/Voodoo2 as the main ddraw/d3d videocard for this game.

oh okay - perhaps that as helped me tough, as before i couldnt get te game running stable in any graphic setting prior to adding that command line, and now it runs decently in ddraw

just wis now i could get iF-22 working, and also iM1a2 (it runs too fast )