I purchased Infernal Machine on release, but never got it working. Today, I dedicated some time to fiddling around with it and found that if I ran the executable under \Resource\Indy3D as an administrator, the game would work.
Unfortunately, that only worked once.


I've tried other settings, including administrator, disable fullscreen enhancements and compatibility modes, and sometimes it works, most others it doesn't - and more importantly, it only works once. I can run it again with the same settings, and it will do nothing. Black screen, then either exit on its own or show up in task manager as 'not responding'.


I am on Windows 10 x64, and have disconnected my wireless headphones, my usb hub where my HOTAS is connected, and turned off nvidia overlay. I'm using the default settings i.e. 32-bit, 1920x1080, everything turned on under display options.


Anything else I should be trying?

I'd try launching the game with a lower resolution (800x600) and then increasing it in game.

Do you have it installed in your X86 Program Files directory, or is it in your regualr Program Files directory?

I've tried every suggestion mentioned and it just goes to back screen with blue loading symbol for my mouse. Literally nothing makes it work on my PC. It used to sometimes work now it never works.

The game is pretty particular on resolution. I know you've probably tried this, but the only thing I can think of is to reinstall the game, then start it at its lowest resolution, and then keep ressing up the game from there until it goes black.

The game originally came with widescreen support, but it was a beta feature at best anticipating Win XP widescreen monitors, so my suggestion is to not go that high.

Honestly the game should fire up just fine without a lot of tweaking, since it was ported for Win10 via GOG. If you're trying to use your old CD version, or have that installed along with the GOG version, then you're going to have issues.

I would unintsall it first with GOG, then go into myWin Apps on Startup, and uninstall anything left over with Win10, and then try reinstalling it again. But don't use the properties to run it as an administrator, and do not use compatability mode, because the GOG version already has that in there (ideally at least).

I know that's a lot of work just to get this thing going, but it might do the trick.

Just a quick follow up, I checked my video settings, and mine are 1680 x 1050 using 32bit true color. I had a GTX 960, and that card handled the game perfectly fine. My new card has more ram and alsio handles the game perfectly.