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Posted January 22, 2015
Like many, I was very excited to see this come to GOG, and I purchased it immediately. I was particularly happy to see that it runs under Win 8.

Unfortunately many of the images are upside down. I thought I read that the GOG version was 2.x, but the installed version is 1.01.

Suggestions?
Posted January 22, 2015
Did you use the shortcut on desktop, or launched the game directly from setup after install?
Post edited January 22, 2015 by Thiev
Posted January 22, 2015
The first time I launched it from setup. I went back and set it to run in compatibility mode for XP w. SP2 and also to run as admin. That seems to have solved the problem.
Posted January 22, 2015
Compatibility mode is not needed, on Win8 game needs to launch with parameter that is added to all shortcuts (desktop, start menu, in game folder etc) but maybe it was missed when launched directly from setup.
Posted January 22, 2015
I'll turn off compatibility mode and try launching from the shortcut.
Posted January 22, 2015
Just posting to say that I had this same problem launching straight from Setup, but trying again from a shortcut resulted in everything being the right way up.
Post edited January 22, 2015 by Alchenar
Posted January 22, 2015
Looks like the problem was never fixed from the cd version. It's a directdraw issue. The issue being that directdraw doesn't work right in anything above xp.

Fullscreen ddraw games (like rebellion) do not play well in windows 8. the shortcut that gog has made just adds the windowed mode option to the exe. This is the only known fix on the cd version too. i was looking into alternative ddraw.dll fixes a while ago, but never came up with any that work right.

I was hoping there would be a proper fix in place in the gog version so i could play in full screen again. The windowed mode works ok, but the game is so small on modern monitors. 1080p is great until the window you are running is 640x480 lol

EDIT: I stand corrected. I finally got the game to launch on my home computer (Tried it at work and it didn't work). Even with the -w on the shortcut gog put on, the game launches in full screen, with full colors on Windows 8.1 x64 :) I'm super excited about that :) thanks!
Post edited January 22, 2015 by darthcircuit
Posted January 23, 2015
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tgb: Like many, I was very excited to see this come to GOG, and I purchased it immediately. I was particularly happy to see that it runs under Win 8.

Unfortunately many of the images are upside down. I thought I read that the GOG version was 2.x, but the installed version is 1.01.

Suggestions?
Unchecking "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings" under the compatibility tab in the properties window fixed this for me.

If it's greyed out you will need to click on "change settings for all users".
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Post edited January 23, 2015 by darksear
Posted January 23, 2015
Launching from the shortcut on the desktop made it load fine. I did not see this thread til after I installed and launched from the installer and I was quite surprised to see all the things that were upside down.

Hopefully others find out the way to get it to load correctly and are not turned off by what might happen the first time it is launched.
Posted January 24, 2015
After playing a bit by myself with the game running fine I decided to play against a friend. I found in another thread on this forum that to do that we needed to use gameranger. Game ranger runs fine and we can get a game running no problem. however game ranger requires you point it at an .exe, not a shortcut. so this means that i have to play upside down. unless anyone has been able to figure out another way to solve this. alternatively if anyone can tell me the necessary ports the game uses to play I might be able to host a game without game ranger which would also solve the problem.
Posted January 24, 2015
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bczretribution: After playing a bit by myself with the game running fine I decided to play against a friend. I found in another thread on this forum that to do that we needed to use gameranger. Game ranger runs fine and we can get a game running no problem. however game ranger requires you point it at an .exe, not a shortcut. so this means that i have to play upside down. unless anyone has been able to figure out another way to solve this. alternatively if anyone can tell me the necessary ports the game uses to play I might be able to host a game without game ranger which would also solve the problem.
I'm not sure if this will work, but you may give it a try:
Please download the file here and put it in the game folder (where REBEXE.EXE is).
Try to launch it - if the game starts correctly, you can point Gameranger to it.

I didn't test it though. If it won't work I'll try to think of something else on Monday ;)
Posted January 24, 2015

I'm not sure if this will work, but you may give it a try:
Please download the file here and put it in the game folder (where REBEXE.EXE is).
Try to launch it - if the game starts correctly, you can point Gameranger to it.

I didn't test it though. If it won't work I'll try to think of something else on Monday ;)
It won't allow me to select it in GameRanger. It won't run anything but rebexe.exe - maybe if you rename the actual rebexe something else, and use the same autoitscript but call it rebexe.exe - then just modify your script to run the renamed exe.

if that makes sense.
Posted January 24, 2015
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darthcircuit: It won't allow me to select it in GameRanger. It won't run anything but rebexe.exe - maybe if you rename the actual rebexe something else, and use the same autoitscript but call it rebexe.exe - then just modify your script to run the renamed exe.

if that makes sense.
I never used Gameranger, I thought it allowed any .exe. If I rename REBEXE.EXE to something different, then compatibility fix won't work anymore.

It's still doable and I have an idea, but I prefer to do it at work, not from home. I'll get back to it on Monday then ;)
Posted January 24, 2015
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darthcircuit: It won't allow me to select it in GameRanger. It won't run anything but rebexe.exe - maybe if you rename the actual rebexe something else, and use the same autoitscript but call it rebexe.exe - then just modify your script to run the renamed exe.

if that makes sense.
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Thiev: I never used Gameranger, I thought it allowed any .exe. If I rename REBEXE.EXE to something different, then compatibility fix won't work anymore.

It's still doable and I have an idea, but I prefer to do it at work, not from home. I'll get back to it on Monday then ;)
No worries :) thanks for your work :)
Posted January 25, 2015
I am running into the same issues with GameRanger. I too appreciate your assistance ^^
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