Hi guys.
I have Win10 64bit installed and the game actually does function as installed without any special actions needed. Just launch the game from the "gangsters.exe" file in the game directory (usually found under c:\GOG Games\Gangsters\).

However I did experience some lag/delay issues to which I found a 'partial' fix for on this forum (Thanks to user Treatid):
1) Run regedit.exe
2) Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows NT/CurrentVersion/AppCompatFlags/Layers
3) You should see an entry for Gangster.exe. Double click it to edit it.
4) Replace the entry currently in it with
"$ DWM8And16BitMitigation 8And16BitTimedPriSync 8And16BitAggregateBlts Layer_ForceDirectDrawEmulation"
(remove the quotes)

(Original thread: "does_not_work_in_windows_8")

The Menu's are still not visible. But alt-tabbing out of the game will make the text show (may crash computer though, so write it down).

So far so good..

I NEED HELP THOUGH. I wrote 'partial' fix to the delay issue because I am still experiencing delay whenever the map (roof top) view is displayed when giving orders and when in working week - no difference. Its frustrating and unfortunately it gets worse during the game.

Any one know how to fix this?

I tried:
* Disabling Vertical Sync in Geforce GTX 560
* Disabling mouse precision
* Disabling/reducing administrator rights
* Kill-explorer "fix" (fyi. not needed with the above regedit fix)

I hope someone can help :)

Best regards,
Walther

This makes the text show up on the main menu, but unfortunately none of the menu items are clickable anymore. I'm on Windows 10 and made sure the compatibility settings matched those in the picture.

EDIT: Rather, the clickable areas for the menu buttons appear not to be lined up with the buttons themselves. For example, clicking on the left side of the Tutorial button makes the game exit out. The fix appears to have messed up the button alignments for me.

Disable "display scaling on high DPI devices" on the compatibility tab and the button allignment will be correct.

I tried your fix, but the game crashes as soon as it wants to show the intro. Without your fix the game runs, but then the menu text is missing.

This is the dsound-gangsters.log file:

1204 15:07:21.147 Starting dxwrapper v1.0.1481.19 DDrawCompat v0.2.1 DxWnd v2.03.60
1204 15:07:21.147 Windows 10 64-bit (10.0.16299)
1204 15:07:21.147 gangsters.exe (PID:6324)
1204 15:07:21.147 Reading config file: dsound.ini
1204 15:07:21.147 Set exception handler
1204 15:07:21.147 Disabling High DPI Scaling...
1204 15:07:21.147 Loading C:\WINDOWS\system32\dsound.dll library
1204 15:07:21.148 Loading ddraw.dll library
1204 15:07:21.148 Hooking ddraw.dll APIs...
1204 15:07:21.148 Process path: E:\Gangsters\gangsters.exe
1204 15:07:21.148 Loading DDrawCompat from E:\Gangsters\DSOUND.dll
1204 15:07:21.148 Loading dinput.dll library
1204 15:07:21.148 Loaded uxtheme.dll library
1204 15:07:21.148 DDrawCompat loaded successfully
21172 15:07:21.155 Starting fullscreen thread...
1204 15:07:21.442 Installing DirectDraw hooks
1204 15:07:21.472 Installing GDI hooks
1204 15:07:21.481 Installing registry hooks
1204 15:07:21.481 Finished installing hooks
1204 15:07:24.612 Loading winmm.dll library
1204 15:07:24.640 Loaded dwmapi.dll library
1204 15:07:28.322 UnhandledExceptionFilter: exception code=3221225477 flags=0 addr=00000000
1204 15:07:28.336 UnhandledExceptionFilter: exception code=3221225477 flags=0 addr=00000000

@rhaak,

1. What video card do you have?
2. Try modifying the dsound.ini file and disabling the "DDrawCompat" option and let me know if this solves the crash.
3. I just updated the Gangsters fix. Try redownloading the fix from here. I fix several crashes in the latest vision of my dxwrapper tool.

1. I have a GeForce GTX 1060
2. When I disable the "DDrawCompat" option, the crash is gone, but then the menu has no text
3. The updated version doesn't fix the crash

Have the same issue as rhaak:

1. Nvidia Strix GTX980
2. DDrawCompat = 0 - Makes the crash go away, but, same as before, no menu text
3. DDrawCompat = 1 - Produces this error log:

15748 22:36:24.159 Starting DxWrapper v1.0.2114.20 DDrawCompat v0.2.1 DxWnd v2.03.60
15748 22:36:24.160 Windows 10 64-bit (10.0.15063)
15748 22:36:24.160 gangsters.exe (PID:1552)
15748 22:36:24.160 Reading config file: E:\Games\GoG Games\Gangsters\dsound.ini
15748 22:36:24.162 Disabling High DPI Scaling...
15748 22:36:24.162 Set exception handler
15748 22:36:24.163 Hooking ddraw.dll APIs...
15748 22:36:24.163 Process path: E:\Games\GoG Games\Gangsters\gangsters.exe
15748 22:36:24.163 Loading DDrawCompat from E:\Games\GoG Games\Gangsters\DSOUND.dll
15748 22:36:24.163 Loading dinput.dll
15748 22:36:24.163 Loaded dinput.dll library
15748 22:36:24.163 Loading uxtheme.dll
15748 22:36:24.163 Loaded uxtheme.dll library
15748 22:36:24.163 DDrawCompat loaded successfully
15748 22:36:24.163 Loading dxwnd.dll
15748 22:36:24.165 Loading E:\Games\GoG Games\Gangsters\DSOUND.dll
15748 22:36:24.165 Loaded E:\Games\GoG Games\Gangsters\DSOUND.dll library
13772 22:36:24.177 Starting fullscreen thread...
15748 22:36:25.532 Installing DirectDraw hooks
15748 22:36:25.587 Installing GDI hooks
15748 22:36:25.592 Installing registry hooks
15748 22:36:25.592 Finished installing hooks
15748 22:36:28.731 Loading winmm.dll
15748 22:36:28.731 Loaded winmm.dll library
15748 22:36:28.771 Loading dwmapi.dll
15748 22:36:28.771 Loaded dwmapi.dll library
15748 22:36:33.444 GDI used DC cache size: 1
15748 22:36:33.451 UnhandledExceptionFilter: exception code=3221225477 flags=0 addr=00000000
15748 22:36:33.468 UnhandledExceptionFilter: exception code=3221225477 flags=0 addr=00000000

4. Running the .exe from the Game directory, as Admin
5. Compatibility mode - Windows XP (Service pack 2)

Try disabling the Compatibility mode settings. See the wiki here for what the Compatibility mode settings should be set to.

I fixed my crash problem !! I have a G-SYNC monitor. I disabled G-SYNC for gangsters.exe in the NVidia control panel and it no longer crashes.

I too have a G-Sync Monitor!! This is what I must be missing! let me check...

Edit - Confirmed - G-Sync Monitors break this ^^

Maybe what this game really needs is a remake or a sequel or something.

They made a gangsters 2 featuring Joey Bane and a totally different game style of play this remains the best just to bad windows 10 is cancer.

haha heres the solution... actually worked XDDD


youtube.com/watch?v=llI1vc1scbw

Hi guys,

Do you still have no solution?

I just copied 2 files into the game folder and it works like a charm.

Google this: gangsters organized crime no text

Take the github link, might be third position.

Regards
Daniel

Windows 10, Acer Switch 5.