First post, by eddman
This is the old, non-steam release.
On windows 10, running the game's exe does basically nothing. To fix that it needs to be run with compatibility set to at most windows XP as administrator.
That's not the issue with dgvoodoo though. The issue is at launch it shows a black screen and the mouse cursor, but CTDs after a few seconds. I tried different dgvoodoo2 settings, including forcing 16-bit color, but no change.
There is a wrapper specifically made for this game, but it's not as flexible. I was wondering if it could be made to work with dgvoodoo.
Its dev goes into detail about the cause of the issue here: http://www.jiri-dvorak.cz/dangw/index.html
The following is a debug with full tracing log from Debugview++:
EDIT:
Used the method mentioned by ZellSF. Renamed dgvoodoo's d3d8.dll to dgd8.dll and copied it to SysWOW64, and hex edited the latest 0.03 d3d8.dll file by dangw and copied it into the game's directory.
This is the log with the fix and dgvoodoo2 together: