Dangerous Waters on Windows 8 / 10
 

Mod by Komat

Original text:http://www.jiri-dvorak.cz/dangw/index.html

Joao Martins: This fix is good for win8 and win10. but changing resolution in the settings screen will crash the game. Solution is to change the resolution ModeID at the dangerouswaters.ini file. You may have to change it at:\Users\YourUsername\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\ Program Files (x86)\Sonalysts Combat Simulations\Dangerous Waters\DangerousWaters.ini

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Thanks everyone! I installed the dll to both Sub Command and Dangerous Waters and both launched successfully, no joy with 688i though. Since Sub Command is a extension of 688i (but with Akula and Seawolf) I can live with these two working. Is it possible to run 688i missions in Sub Command? I know there were a lot of good missions made back in the day for 688i:yeah:.

It's worth a try.

As for 688(I), I got the Steam version to work right out the gate, it was SC that I needed Komat's dll to get going. Check out the Steam package.

problems
 

hey guys I keep coming up with an invalid value for registry warning when I try to download this. Is this something with windows 10?

What can I say?

Thanks Komat! :salute:

Welcome back
 

Is it the record? :D

BTW, what Komat has done for us deserves acknowledgement, appreciation and gratitude. I was keeping an i7 laptop from updating from W7 to W10 because of DW. No more. Bye bye W7.

No one seems to be able to mention what you set the ModeID to. It's defaulted to "1" and I've tried various different numbers but I don't get any different result. I just want a better resolution than 800x600 after the Komat fix for Windows 10.

Are you running full screen? It's going to be hard to notice a difference if you are since most monitors nowadays are not 4:3 ratio so it's always going to be scaled.

1 - 800x600
2 - 1024x768
3 - 1280x1024
4 - 1600x1200

Are those then hardcoded? As 1440x1080 should also fit that ratio.

I know that 1, 2, and 3 are correct. I'm guessing I've seen 4 somewhere or I extrapolated it, can't remember which. I would love to know if there's a way to get 1440x1080, that would be incredible. 1280x1024 is 5:4, though, it doesn't fit with the rest of them but it's still there.

EDIT: I remembered where I got those numbers from. They correlate to the resolutions in the graphics menu.

Thanks
 

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Thanks to Komat and FPSchazly (fan of the youtube vids btw).

I got it working just like I had it before the Windows 10 upgrade. Set ModeID to 3, compatibility mode for Vista (Service Pack 2), and finally Run as Admin. Running Full Screen just fine @ 1280x1024.

DW and Win 7-64 Bit
 

Hello Captain's,
I'm CaptMick, former DRD in GNSF community. I've abandoned the DW since 2011 but now it is a time to come back a board again. The last night I've installed the DW clean stock ver. patced to 1.4 on my home PC. The PC is running under Win7-64. The game started normaly, watched the intro without any graph troubles, but after that the Voice recognition program starts up and I can't bypass it. Have any ideas and recommendations how tou run the game properly under Win7-64?
Tank You in advance!

What starts up is an initializer to that speech recognition program. Just leave that running, speech recognition isn't turned on with that running, and proceed to play the game and enter options without the game minimizing to go back to that menu. I run the game in a window because it's easier for my purposes.

Thanks! It was the same I was thinking about, now confirmed. I'll report here late this evening when I'm back home.

BTW, I'll start working at some new scenarios especialy for the stock game and will keep you updated.

CONN - SONAR - Have a new contact...

Welcome aboard!
 

Huh, the DW game still have a problem running properly on my home PC under Win7-the game menu is flashing for cople of seconds, about 10, and dissapear. I've tried to change the compability settings to run in Win XP SP3 mode, not effect. The other things are going well, the game runs stable, only have the menu issue. I'll be glad for some help hou to manage the game under Win 7-64? My own last experience finished with Win XP 5 years ago...

It really is the speech recognition applet. Whenever you click options it tries to come to the foreground. But the game wants to stay fullscreen so there is a short fight going on. Nothing bad happens though. Just annoying.

Or you have the game installed into C:\Program Files (or similar x86 folder), and you are trying to save a game file in to the Scenario folder or save a screenshot. Then User Account Control is popping up a message to ask your approval because Windows wants to prevent that. If this takes too long before acknowledgement then this goes away and whatever you tried to do fails to work. To avoid that install the game into a folder outside of c:\Program Files (whatever)

Yeah, the speech recognition is annoying. For me if I'm running full screen, it pops up, my game minimizes, and then I leave it up and go back in game. It won't bother you again as long as you leave it up. But, I run the game in a window so it's a non-issue for me.

For what it's worth, I've never had an issue having my game installed to Program Files, but it's worth a shot if the problem still persists.

RE: DW Wrapper
 

Thanks Komat! :D Back on patrol on Windows 10 thanks to you, running beautifully. -Berzerkly