I'm running Windows 11 on my laptop and can get the game to start but the menu animations don't respond to my mouse over. I don't know a lot about computers and what you were really talking about. Is there a way you could write out exactly what I need to search and install to help getting the menus in the game to work correctly?

You obviously can run the game which means you don't need to install runtimes.

Integrated graphic cards can be a pain, quite some game are not compatible with these.
However, STA is old enough that dgVoodoo in this case might do the trick ... again.

http://dege.freeweb.hu/dgVoodoo2/dgVoodoo2/
This is dgVoodoo, a wrapper for outdated games that use old graphic standards.

Copy the .exe and the .config file from the main directory in your game directory (these configure how dhVoodoo2 behaves), also the four DLL files from MS\x86. This is the actual wrapper.
How the settings work (aspect ratio, watermark, whatever), you find out by reading the programs documentation.
To begin with, do NOT use "passthrough" however, work with one of the virtual graphics card listed. Give it some more VRAM and not the preconfigured 256MB, go for 1-2GB to get started.

I'm afraid you'll have to start learning how to use a computer. While Microsoft does a great job with Windows from 2023 being able to run games from 1995 (no other gaming platform can do that without emulators, try to run a PS1 game on a PS5 from the original CD), you often have to tweak a bit to get them to work properly. Never forget to set the Compatibility mode to a Windows version that was current when the game was launched initially if you encounter problems. To get started, you can always click "solve compatibility problems" and see what Windows itself will come up with.

And yes, you'll have to lookup these terms on google and see what they mean, that's all part of getting started with retro gaming.

Sorry for the long wait. I was busy with my real life and some more urgent and more interesting things.

The issue is, that it was working at some time with a previous GoG-Client. But after an update of the GoG-Client suddenly the games do not work anymore. So it is obvious, even for a single minded person) that the issue is not with the Windows, or some graphic cards, but with the GoG-Client, which bogged the execution of the game. It is not only STA2, but a lot of other old games for me. I am not sure, if this also happens for others.

I am actually sick of reading from people, that say, yeah it is the fault of M$ ant its new OS version, when the platform here has the purpose of providing a backward compatibility platform for old Windows and DOS games.

Interestingly games using DosBox (Emulator for MS-DOS aka Pre-Windows for people, that think they are bigger than everybody else) are running. But DosBox also runs without issues on Win11.

And the argument, that you can not run PS1 disk games on PS5 is just plain ignorant, as Sony themselves state, that only Sony BluRay-Disks are supported. So you cannot even install those or recognize the disks. This has nothing to do with the Operating system.

In the end: GoG claims to provide a platform for games, that were running on Dos, Win95, 98, XP, 2k, but the engine seems to be broken and nobody cares.

Btw I got M&M6 running on Steam without big effort. I just installed a specific patch. Doing here the same, does nothing. It still fails to start correctly.

This discussion can be closed, because there is no solution and nobody who really cares!!!

The game seems to work when running it from command line using the flag no intro see below.

armada2.exe -nointro

I brought Armada 2 today and i tried all sort of fixing what i seen so far but nothing works. Windows 11, Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB, 16GB ram. I would like to get some sort of information how to fix this because if i not can get this work then i gonna ask for a refund because i not payed for a un-playable game.