Don't know where you read soemthing sarcastic and it was never meant to be that way. I just asked if you heard the term since there are people out there who do believe whatever "their" antivirus is telling them not even knowing that this does not necessarily mean that there actually is anything wrong with it. Sorry if you felt offended by my question - as said it was not my intention.

To answer your second question regarding my proof. Generally I don't have any - I was only commenting on the post (or rather two of them) because both were only stating one anti virus program and none of any other users (obviously running other programs) did have any problems. What I want to say with so many words here (to prevent being misunderstood) is simple: don't let ONE anti virus alert let you panic. Get other opinions as well. To do this sites like virustotal.com where invented.

I just scanned the link and got a 1/64 hit of it containing malware.
https://www.virustotal.com/de/url/8ed97cffc43fb59b5bac7b6f38eda5885fda189efedb2bc843a85be0c6b3a6db/analysis/

Thank you for the tip! It worked! Thank you for the tip! It worked!

FINALLY ! Thanks so much.

I really appreciate your help, I had been trying to fix this for ages.

Worked first time, no problems. If only patching every old game was so easy.

This worked for me. Thanks for the tip!

Great, thank you!

Thanks mate, worked for me!!!

Thanks! This worked for me too.

Thank you!

That actually worked :o

The simplest and safest way that I have found to run NOX in windows 10 64 bit without dowloading external exes, no compatibility checkings, working music, no lag in sound, no flickering at start or working dx surfaces is to download ddrawcompat, it is just a ddraw.dll wrapper that does not replace anything in the game folder and runs the game perfectly.

The other solutions worked for me but the game suffered lagged sound and was a little slow. ddrawcompat seems to run the game fine. GOG should think about using this file or something similar.

greetings

OH wow! This worked perfectly! Before the game wouldn't work past the title screen but after I downloaded and pasted the file into the game file and it works :) THANKS!!!

You are a genius. Thank you. Now it works. The trick with compatibility settings didn't work for me on my win 8.1. But the ddrawcompat worked immediately without any comp. settings. First, I thought it killed my sound of the game, but it was changeable in the options of the game. Thanks. :)

I am glad it worked as good as did for me.

Additionally this wrapper can be used also in other titles using dx6-7 etc... There are cases GOG versions do have a similar or more advanced/specific wrapper, though.

It is question of put the file in the game in particular and see if it works better than vanilla. It is worth the try.

After some W10 updates I found NOX stopped working (hangs in flikkering screen).
The above mentioned DDrawcompat solution didn't work for me on my laptop with W10 Home V.1909 64bit.

After some research and tweaking I found this solution that works for me on (currently) W10 Home V.1909:
- From the GOG forum (credits to MarkoH01) I got the link to http-//noxcommunity.com/downloads.php#
- Click there on "Main", chose NOXSolution and install it.
- Then use the now installed Launcher.exe (see NOX gamedir if no shortcut!) to tweak the startup config into:
- (Press settings) > Important for me where: SDL Mode ON, Maintain Aspect Ratio ON and Renderer OPENGL
- Also both Game.Exe and NOX.Exe I put in W98/W Me compatibility. 16 bit color, Optimization turned off, Run As Administrator.
- With DirectX as Renderer I kept getting NOX to freeze after some time (sometimes fast sometimes after 20 min.), with OpenGL I have had no problems jet (with several hours of continues play!).

I hope those that are still stuck will be helped with this information!

Have fun playing NOX!