I got that game as part of the emissary gift pack but I gave up trying to get it to run outside of virtual machine so I just watched the cutscenes. Most windows games during that period just are terrible with compatibility on modern systems. If I were you I'd keep a win xp virtual machine in virtual box handy

That game has never worked right, as the game's code was faulty from the get-go and has never been corrected with patches. The only thing you can do is muddle through it.

I think DGVoodoo2 might work with it. There have been posts about the game in that subforum.

Dgvoodoo2 is optional. But a ddraw wrapper is required and you need to hexedit the game exe.

Please check here:
Star Trek Deep Space Nine Dominion Wars and dgvoodoo2
DS9 Dominion Wars wrapper fix

There is a problem that the game has many variant versions (US 1.01, EU 1.03, DE 1.03, US 1 .04) and there are many patches that will break things instead of fixing.
I only recommend 1.04 because it's available for US, EU, DE.

Game is from 2001. The game should be using D3D7 or D3D8. In both cases you will need something such as DxWnd or dgVoodoo2. As another member suggested here, for DDraw (if it is DX7) to work, you will need to hex edit it if you use dgVoodoo2 or any proxy wrapper.

BEEN_Nath_58 wrote on 2022-04-15, 05:09:

Game is from 2001. The game should be using D3D7 or D3D8. In both cases you will need something such as DxWnd or dgVoodoo2. As another member suggested here, for DDraw (if it is DX7) to work, you will need to hex edit it if you use dgVoodoo2 or any proxy wrapper.

thanks i tried using HXC to edit the exe and to find ddraw but cannot find it all. maybe is a string and not a "code"?

tried dxwnd but seems so big and complicated as an app, i just chose dx 8 and left everything as default and the game doesn't even starts

yochenhsieh wrote on 2022-04-15, 03:37:

Dgvoodoo2 is optional. But a ddraw wrapper is required and you need to hexedit the game exe. […]
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Dgvoodoo2 is optional. But a ddraw wrapper is required and you need to hexedit the game exe.

Please check here:
Star Trek Deep Space Nine Dominion Wars and dgvoodoo2
DS9 Dominion Wars wrapper fix

There is a problem that the game has many variant versions (US 1.01, EU 1.03, DE 1.03, US 1 .04) and there are many patches that will break things instead of fixing.
I only recommend 1.04 because it's available for US, EU, DE.

thanks got that file already but cannot find the value ddraw using HXC as hex editor

twiz11 wrote on 2022-04-15, 02:18:

I got that game as part of the emissary gift pack but I gave up trying to get it to run outside of virtual machine so I just watched the cutscenes. Most windows games during that period just are terrible with compatibility on modern systems. If I were you I'd keep a win xp virtual machine in virtual box handy

i thought windows 7 was a good vm for those games but maybe i was wrong at this point

These are the address in my ds9dw.exe (US, 1.04 no-cd)
BFAFE
EC874
But if you can't find, perhaps your game version is not same as mine.

yochenhsieh wrote on 2022-04-15, 14:21:

These are the address in my ds9dw.exe (US, 1.04 no-cd) BFAFE EC874 But if you can't find, perhaps your game version is not same […]
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These are the address in my ds9dw.exe (US, 1.04 no-cd)
BFAFE
EC874
But if you can't find, perhaps your game version is not same as mine.

ok found the reason why:

for some reasons the exe was ALREADY set with ddra2.dll, without me modifiying it. just the fact that i put the ddra2 file, also put that string into the exe for some reasons.

so what i did was :

download the dgvoodoo files needed as listed in the links you guys posted above

deleted ddraw and ddra2

modified the exe and put ddraw string to the two place instead of ddra2

ran the game, it crashed.

i then modified the hex of the ddraw with drra2 FIRST, and the put the ddra2 .dll file LATER

and voila, it works! no crash no slowdown

game is not that bad to be honest, and with no real, good st games on the horizon, that will suffice.

thanks again for your support guys