Oh and if anyone's wondering, I tried applying Win98 compatibility to every .exe file on the CD-ROM, it still moans about too much diskspace on D:, when the Win98 mode applies the EmulateGetDiskFreeSpace option

Have you tested under Windows7? Run as administrator, too? Which video card? Does wined3d run on Win8.1 (http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthrea … indows-8!/page6)?

Will try on Win7 64bit in future (at work!), Run as Admin does nothing as I am admin anyway. Using GTX 980 so could be graphics driver error. Not tried Wined3d.

Also, if you have an ATI card, it's worth testing with it.

Yeah work PC has Win7 64bit + ATI. I've got Win8.1 64bit + Nvidia.

I have the game working in Wine with version 1.3.35

I'm not that familiar with Wine, can it be set up in Windows or is it a Linux thing?

Generally speaking, it's a Linux thing, and I don't think it's too useful for Bladeforce to mention unless he thinks it's a compatibility point meant to inspire testing using WineD3D, which we can kinda/sorta call the "Windows port of Wine"?

Just tried it on work PC, 64bit Win7 with ATI Radeon HD 4600 graphics, and it loads and plays fine.

Nvidia are a bit crap with backwards compatibility, aren't they?! I think I'll need to roll up a VMware Player running XP with Direct3D support soon...

Could just as easily be a Windows 8 compatibility issue.

Why so eager to blame Nvidia for everything? You sound as if you have an agenda.

Jumping to conclusions also usually won't help you find answers.

Works on Win8.1/Nvidia here.

I do have an Nvidia agenda from days gone by, see https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/5431 … -earlier-games/

Heh... but I love Nvidia for GSYNC and performance, so it's more a love-hate thing.

Can you let me know what your PC spec is? Is it similar to mine? See my signature. I'm just keen to get everything working, that's all 😀

Oh and are you running an original copy of the game or a rip? I tried an updated noCD dll file but that didn't help.

Just ran it up again, I see the opening videos, then the splash loading screen with the silver Saleen S7, the loading bar fills up, then it crashes back to desktop, saying launchSSC.exe has crashed.

The Event Viewer showed this, this time:

1Faulting application name: launchSSC.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x3bd40afc
2Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.3.9600.17476, time stamp: 0x54516af9
3Exception code: 0xc0000005
4Fault offset: 0x00041db6
5Faulting process ID: 0x136c
6Faulting application start time: 0x01d0294dcc76b5dc
7Faulting application path: D:\Games\ssc\launchSSC.exe
8Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
9Report ID: 149dbc00-9541-11e4-82ca-7824af8a9e0a
10Faulting package full name: 
11Faulting package-relative application ID: 

Hmm, just ran about 20 more times and twice it got to the main menu successfully. Then crashes whilst I was setting up the game, at a random point. Hate these sort of memory related issues...

VirtuaIceMan wrote:

I do have an Nvidia agenda from days gone by, see https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/5431 … -earlier-games/ […]
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I do have an Nvidia agenda from days gone by, see https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/5431 … -earlier-games/

Heh... but I love Nvidia for GSYNC and performance, so it's more a love-hate thing.

Can you let me know what your PC spec is? Is it similar to mine? See my signature. I'm just keen to get everything working, that's all 😀

Oh and are you running an original copy of the game or a rip? I tried an updated noCD dll file but that didn't help.

I'm running a cracked version (but if your version failed due to copy protection, it probably wouldn't launch at all).

I'm running a GTX 670, which I think should be fairly similar to compatibility to a 980. There's no really major things that differ (maybe video codecs?). Latest Nvidia driver version, latest Win8.1 updates.

Edit: oh and video memory. DXwnd includes a function to report video memory to be less than 2 GB to applications.

I'm starting to wonder if I should disable my 980 and enable the on-board motherboard Intel graphics, to see if it definitely is graphics card related or not. Not sure how easy that is to do in practice though...

VirtuaIceMan wrote:

Can't get anywhere with SSC by Activision; when I try installing it on my 4TB D: drive the installer says it doesn't have enough space.

VirtuaIceMan wrote:

Oh and if anyone's wondering, I tried applying Win98 compatibility to every .exe file on the CD-ROM, it still moans about too much diskspace on D:, when the Win98 mode applies the EmulateGetDiskFreeSpace option

Windows 7 and 8 can create and mount virtual harddrives with fixed size.

My Research :
Installed the game on a winxp laptop 1.6 centrino radeon x300 (only pc I have with a dvdrom drive)
ran the game and got this :

Pressing the ok button and the game ran fine

tried again with no cd in the drive to check for copy protection/cd check
got this :

Clicked allow, the game played the intro videos then brought up cant find cd message.

Tried a nocd, the game played the intro videos then Ctd'd (could this be your problem)
Tried a german (my copy is english) crack to remove the cd check. Game ran fine

Copied the game folder to a win7 x64 pc (q6600, Amd 6950) game ran fine (no fddshow message)

VirtuaIceMan wrote:

I'm not that familiar with Wine, can it be set up in Windows or is it a Linux thing?

easiest way to try win is use a kanotix livedvd
it will not alter your windows setup in any way
Kanotix comes with amd and nvidia drivers and wine and steam
you need one of the following
Kanotix Dragonfire LinuxTag 2013 KDE Special 32 bit – ISO (1.2 GB)
Kanotix Dragonfire LinuxTag 2013 KDE Special 64 bit – ISO (1.3 GB)

http://kanotix.com/index.php?newlang=eng

Download the iso burn it to dvd then boot with it and double click on the game exe

I'm running the original game, the videos play fine, it just crashes loading the menu, or on 2occasions, made it into the nmenu but crashed randomly shortly after