I have lost music and voices from 3rd cutscenes (briefing at office with "blue woman") - on the intro and first cutscens in game I heard the voices.. I haven't also music during exit from game (scores).

I read the post from other topic and change that sound.dll and now it works perfect.

I am using windows 7.

Thanks a lot !!!

Sadly all suggested solutions didnt work for me, I still got the same I/O Error. even after replacing the dlls, making sure the legacy component in Win 10 is active, 3dfx mode, etc.
Any advise?

I have (after many days) managed to get Battle Isle 3 to work on my 64-bit Windows 10 PC and I thought I would share how I did it in one place:

1) Obtain a copy of Oracle VirtualBox online (FREE)
2) Obtain an ISO of Windows XP SP3 easily found online with a websearch
3) Run virtuaBox and create a Windows XP machine; load the ISO in as an optical drive (CHeck the boot order) in the VirtualBox dialogue
4) Create the XP machine
5) Load the BI3 ISO in the VirtualBox drive and install BI3 on the Virtual XP machine
6) Copy the data of the CD 1 onto the hard disk into the path: C\BLUEBYTE\SDI - NOTE THAT THIS MAY DIFFER, it is where the game installed
7) Copy the files from the folder C:\BLUEBYTE\SDI\BIN to the folder C:\BLUEBYTE\SDI
8) Copy all DLL files from the folder C:\BLUEBYTE\SDI into C:\ Windows\system32
9) Create a link to the desktop from the startup file "SDI_1R" in the folder C:\BLUEBYTE\SDI

click with the right mouse button on the link, select properties and the add /0 after the target address
OPTIONAL - in the Compatibility tab you set the following: Start Windows SP XP 3 + as administrator (DEPENDS on whether you are already set as ADMIN)

10) Find SDI.INI in the windows directory and edit it to only read the following: (NOTE to check your drive letter for the ISO on the PATH3 line)

[FILES]
PATH0 =
PATH1 =
PATH2 = C:\BLUEBYTE\SDI
PATH3 = D:\
PATH4 =
PATH5 =
PATH6 =
PATH7 =
PATH8 =
PATH9 =
SDIPATH = C: \ Games \ BI3
COUNTRY = / 0
[ADVANCED]
remotePath =
FIRST TIME = YES
[STARTUP]
VFW_SETUP_PATH = D\V4W\SETUP.EXE
[WIN32]
WIN32 = YES

Make sure there is a SAV directory in the SDI directory - if not create one (Right click)

Finally, check that the screen resolution on the main screen is set to the correct resolution or the game crashes after it starts (right click on windows background, click properties, click settings and then select the screen dimensions to 1024x768)

This information is taken from many many different websites

Wow, that is really impressive work.

Sadly, this is not what i signed up for by buying the game on GOG. Here's hoping they are able to get the game working for us mere mortals soon :)

Howdy,

Tried all of the above to varying results. Mainly that there's no audio after the initial cutscene and the graphics kept flickering.

Found that dgVoodoo resolved all of my issues as long as you select DirectX in settings instead of 3Dfx. Not permitted to post links so just google dgVoodoo.

Steps:

Replace the sound.dll file with the one from the mega link on the first page (or any other compatible sound.dll)
Download and extract dgVoodoo to a temp folder
Copy the D3D8.dll, D3DImm.dll, DDraw.dll from the /MS subfolder into your Incubation install directory
Copy the dgVoodooCpl.exe into your Incubation install directory
Run Settings.exe as an Administrator and ensure DirectX is selected (it's the default)

The game should hopefully run without issue, and you can use dgVoodooCpl to force resolutions/windowed mode etc.

Hope this helps someone else!

Update:

Even with dgVoodoo I was still getting a lot of audio crackling and popping in cutscenes and the in-game music. A ton of googling led me to find a very specific version of winmm.dll that fixes the issue:

vogons.org/download/file.php?id=27848

Namely the winmm_nomciclose.dll from the above archive. Drop that into your incubation folder, rename it to sound.dll and you're good to go.

Source of the dll was this thread here: gog.com/forum/star_wars_xwing_and_tie_fighter_series/new_winmmdll_fix_remastered_edition_on_windows_10/page2

I get this error with the launcxher. DId compatibility mode and the other tricks here. But still I get this error.

I made the GOG support team aware of the fix and this was the answer:

"Hello again,

Many thanks for your clarification. That said I am afraid that Incubation is not supported on Windows 10 at the moment. This information is visible on the product's page.

Like I said, I am very grateful for your workaround and have passed it on to our Product Team.
Thank you for your continuous support.

Including the files at this stage might result in problems on other systems.

Thank you once again for your understanding and continuous support.

All the best,
Falran

GOG.com
Tech Support Representative"

I had the same problem and your solution worked for me as well! Thank you! That night of more than 3 years ago was well spent...

Thank you too for this suggestion!

Finally, I must thank you as well. I was experiencing the same audio issues and your instructions solved them.

Thanks! sound.dll fix worked.

Your solution works great. Thx!

What I still can't play is The Wilderness addon. Starting the launcher.exe with -addon doesn't work. The Incubation Task is running with heavy CPU load but nothing can be seen otherwise.
Any help?

EDITED:
Just found this:
gog.com/forum/battle_isle/any_hints_on_how_to_get_wilderness_missions_to_launch_on_windows_10

That worked great. :-)

Yup! Worked for me as well on Windows 10. Thank you for taking the time to find the fix and share with the community. This fix applies to the Wilderness missions as well. Use the revised sound.dll to create a new audio.dll.

Hello!

I have some problem with the Incubation game!
When I start the game i got this message:
Application error
Exception EinOutError in module launcher.exe at 00012F8D.
I/O error 32

Thanks, Peter

Try some of the solutions in this thread, it might help in your case as well.

For me (Win10 x64, v1909), the following worked:

1) (Re-)Activate the DirectPlay legacy components
Under control panel -> programs and features -> turn windows features on or off (on the left hand side) -> scroll down to "Legacy components" -> set the checkmark -> click OK and let Windows do its thing -> once it's finished reboot for the changes to take effect

2) Download dgVoodoo from here (latest stable version, currently v2.64) - any warnings from the anti-virus can be ignored
Unpack the zip archive to somewhere of your choosing -> copy D3D8.dll, D3DImm.dll and DDraw.dll from the /MS/x86 subfolder into the Battle Isle Incubation install directory
Also copy dgVoodooCpl.exe from the unpacked dgVoodoo directory to the Battle Isle Incubation install directory (in case you want to configure/fine tune anything)

3) Download the archive winmm.rar from here
Unpack the rar archive to somewhere of your choosing -> rename winmm_nomciclose.dll to sound.dll -> copy the renamed sound.dll into the Battle Isle Incubation install directory (confirm if asked whether to overwrite an existing file of the same name)

4) In the Battle Isle Incubation install directory run Settings.exe as administrator, make sure that DirectX is selected and confirm with "Save and launch"

And voila - it should run now.

On W10 I replaced sound.dll (in the Battle Isle Incubation folder) with a copy of winmm.dll. I renamed the original sound.dll to soundold.dll and then renamed winmm.dll to sound.dll. I also changed the 'Settings.exe' to 3DFX. Both Incubation and The Wilderness Missions launched and worked.
When I rebooted my computer and tried again it loaded and I played through the first two levels of Incubation. It crashed on the third level and now won't load at all.
The game used to work just fine on Windows 8.1. I now notice that Widows 10 is not shown in the recommended operating systems in it's review.