Invalid Windows 10 Version
https://i.imgur.com/NkGFh1W.png

After clicking ok the game doesn't do anything just straight up crashes.

Somehow i bet cracked version will work.

Go and update Windows, problem solved.
I don't see any reason why a cracked steam or epic version would have different system requirements.

For that price they should give u licensed Win10 pro in a package.

Yeah, updating windows would surely do the trick.
That build of Windows is 4 years old, and support for it ended april last year.

Regarding the cracked version. I rather doubt it. Closest I can remember is Doom 3 requiring Windows 2000 to run, but it was possible to run on windows 98 if you used a hex-editor to downgrade memory management calls to something supported by windows 98.

Not that the game worked particularly well, but it did run on 98.

Can't upgrade windows, the install crashes since it doesn't have drivers for lsi sas 9207-8i... after failing 3x it reverts back.

What are you doing with a server controller card in your gaming machine? Maybe time to set up an independent NAS or go with a traditional SATA controller.

Hard to blame this on the game.

Then do a clean install and install the card drivers manually (download them first of course).
A guy on this site claims that using the Windows 8.1 drivers works just fine:
https://linustechtips.com/topic/1050782-lsi-9207-8i-with-windows-10/

I agree, if a game requires a certain Windows version to run, it should be mentioned in the system specs.
Maybe try to get a refund.

Maybe its a powerful workstation, and not NAS; maybe game should state specific version of windows 10 it works on rather than just "windows 10"...

It says it clearly it needs windows 10. they dont need to express a version for it. If you want 10 it should be upgraded to supported version. OP does not have a supported version of windows 10 any longer so hes outside of the scope of the game.

I understand his issues but this is not the game nor GOG's fault.. that said they are very well in right for a full refund. I would suggest a clean install with the win 8 drivers first though. Or use the upgrade EXE and not the patch or windows update version as the upgrade EXE works so much better on older hardware... but a complete reinstall from image should work fine.

They do, if a minimum version of it is needed. If it runs on every version, then they don't.

Back in the days it was just the same. It had to be mentioned in the system requirements, if a game required Windows XP SP2 and would not run without SP2 installed.
It was the same with Windows 8.1 vs 8.0 and Windows 7 SP1 vs. Vanilla.

Microsoft changed naming of and versioning since Windows 10 was introduced.
We might never see a Windows 11 (so they say). There are many different Versions of Windows 10, all with the same name. If they say "Windows 10", then it MUST run on EVERY version of Windows 10. Otherwise the system requirements are wrong. This will become more and more important the more versions are being released.

Also there are still some people who use a 32 Bit version of Windows 10. If a game has no 32 Bit executables and requires 64 Bit, than that must also be mentioned.

It can also work the other way around:
Back in the days I bought the 64 Bit version of Windows XP for testing. Quite some progams and games would not run on it, but none of them mentioned it. They just named Windows XP as system requirement, which was utterly wrong. But I can forgive that since WinXP64 was VERY rare, most people didn't even know it existed (although it was a cool piece of work, it had many improvements to the original Windows XP which later made it into Windows 7 like language independent program and user directories and language packs being installed on top of the system, unlike in the original version which had different installers for each language).

I agree they should mention it on the Store page.

It runs on 1803 which is the version I chose, but I'm a bit annoyed that I have to consider this warning everytime I launch.

New patch dropped 23h hours ago for this very issue: 1.08.6 update
https://twitter.com/Guerrilla/status/1331613853277319171?s=20

This addresses the crash on startup for anyone on base 1.08, has fixed all reported instances of it.


I still think if you are on an unsupported version of 10 you are not running 10 and there is no need to specify a patch level... you can still bypass it anyways so its a non-issue. If you run 10 then run a legit upto date supported version.

Be much more willing to keep my Windows up to date if MS wouldn't regularly break stuff with each update...