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I'll be damned. DW worked when i started it from Steam the first time. A day later a startup error an no luck. The wrapper wasn't even installed so i tried but no luck. I even had backup copy of the whole directory but no luck.
I just installed Sub Command from Steam and it works at 1600x1200. Without the wrapper. I copy the settings ini file to my other Sub Command folder but no luck there.
I have no clue what is going on here. I'm starting to think to revive my 2006 pc or try VM.

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I am hopefully in the process of rejoining the ranks of submarine commanders after a decade of absence due to only having Mac computers, since I just bought a PC specifically for gaming, and all of the old toys are beckoning me, hehe. I am running Windows 10 and have Steam installed.

As an owner of Dangerous Waters, Sub Command, et al from way back, I am wondering if there have been any updates made to the Steam versions that would make it worthwhile for me to purchase them this week (a bundle is on sale for $6) rather than going through the installs and digging up the patches from my saved disks. In fact might buy them from Steam just to save myself the effort of digging that stuff up ... that is, unless someone here tells me that I'll have better luck getting my old versions installed and running on Windows 10 than I would with the Steam versions.

Also, what is the consensus opinion (if any) at this point on whether or not this Windows 10 wrapper actually works?

What folder do I extract the .dll to??

\Dangerous Waters\

I'm having the same problem as mentioned before. Installs and runs fine first time, then straight to the "Windows is searching for a solution to the problem"

I've tried that DLL with no luck. Win10 64bit here

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i have DW and i use windows 10 and the patch still doesnt work it still goes to a black screen. PLS help

Sorry I am not very computer literate.

When you say unpack to game directory; Where exactly is the game directory? Is it just the dangerous waters folder or a sub folder?

Thanks

Dangerous waters folder

Thank you p7 p8

Thank you everyone involved. I just installed the mod and the game starts!!

Now I just need to get better at the game. :up:

Thanks for the thread and help!!!!
 

Thanks a lot to keep this information online for so long.

Now I can play again DW...thanks to you.

Status Update ...I can only run in 800x600. I tried to change the value un ini file ModeID from 1 to 3...4...5 and nothing changes.
I've tried inside DW ignoring the speech recognition configuration steps...and then the game crashes...And after some tries the d3d8.dll stop working. Windows says something about the file not being a proper dll file...and then antivirus tries to block it...I have to uncompress the file again and start over and over the procedure with same results...

64 bits Win 8.1 here. Any tips???

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Sounds like a bad .dll file to me. Did you get it from the RA mod download or somewhere else?

Hi and thanks for the reply.

I'm using http://www.jiri-dvorak.cz/dangw/index.html, version 0.02....

Try this. Open the file (d3d8.dll) in notepad and copy the entire contents with ctrl+c. It won't be pretty but it works. Now go to this website http://www.miraclesalad.com/webtools/md5.php and paste in the data.

It should generate the following MD5 hash if the file is intact:

8ffb91e491e1af076ed455b3a62d35b2

Hi!

It does generate the proper hash. I can play DW, but only at 800x600.

Ok thank goodness! I would be furious if a malicious version of our precious fix were to be floating around. Start from the top, did you check that you are running the latest driver software for your graphics card?

This may be completely unrelated but are you using an additional computer monitor? Could be issues with that. I can run in windowed mode on one screen and not in the other for example. It is strange.

What resolution is your display set to normally? Not in game but on the desktop.

Hi rentacow.

- My desktop resolution is 1920x1080
- I'm playing full screen, not windowed
- My GC drivers are update, nvidia gtx970M
- And I have only 1 monitor....

Thanks for your help!

I just did some testing and the game won't run for me if I turn up my desktop resolution. It may not work at all at such a high resolution. Try a lower desktop resolution and maybe you will find a combination that works.

Remember, this is a very old game and the high desktop resolutions commonly used today didn't even exist back then! Easy to see how there could be some compatibility issues.

If I had to suggest anything else I would think there could be a way to "trick" your graphics card into emulating an older directX version? Quick and dirty method that would surely work would be to run DW on a virtual machine with windows XP installed. The virtual machine software should have built in support for the older tech.