The one by jackfuste can work for Vista / 7, but for people on Windows 10, it doesn't work very well at all. It also has a number of issues which weren't fixed (broken graphics on the menu bar, right-click menu's always opening in the top-left and the background graphics in advisor menu's were always in top right).

Crudelios' hack is more updated, which fixes all of those bugs, working just fine on Windows 10 and also has support for all resolutions, without providing a massive RAR archive of edited EXE's.

Cool thanks :)

Hello everyone,

I tried the suggested steps in order to make this game work on Windows 10.
I didn't work.

This is the error report:
OK :Game text loaded.Mon May 15
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01:00:48 Debug and status report on
01:00:48 OK :Active.
01:00:48 OK :DD SetCooperative Level.
01:00:57 ERR:DD SetMode failed err :
01:00:57 ERR:GFX DirectDraw not enabled.
01:00:57 ERR:gfxBegin failed.
01:00:57 ERR:Exited Pharaoh, couldn't start direct draw.

Could anyone help me?

Regular freezes/crashes of the game are associated with a bug in the playback of sounds.

Especially strong when "Compatibility WindowsXP(sp2/sp3)"
Use "Compatibility Windows95/98"

The user reports that after updating mss32.dll and MP3DEC.ASI the problem was solved.
caesar3 . heavengames . com/cgi-bin/forums/display.cgi?action=ct&f=9,7677,,20
old files
CRC32:0CF075E4 mss32.dll (Version:5.0r)
CRC32:1533C2F2 MP3DEC.ASI

A proven pair to replace mss32.dll+Mp3dec.asi (from Zeus+Poseidon v2.1)
CRC32:9BD81E9D mss32.dll (Version:6.0m)
CRC32:FA4BC870 Mp3dec.asi
wdfiles . ru/e11658
hmm.. how about
DirectX 9.0с Runtime Pack (June 2010)
www.microsoft.com/en-au/download/details.aspx?id=8109

When you have more than 2 speakers (2.1 or 5.1 or 7.1 sound)
Also, modern sound cards can work in surround sound emulation mode.
Older games don't know what surround sound is.
Download "Version 0.12", unpack and move to the game folder.
www.indirectsound.com/downloads.html
(or "Version 0.14" with EAX=off by default)
This dsound.dll replaces the native one from DirectX, like a wrapper, reconciles the old with the new.