bought both from GOG recently and this happes.


error message for TA was directX environnment incorrect but in my sys i have v9.0c and v 11 cos need both versions for my Civ V


error for TAK was after asking me to select rendering mode, it shuts down.\


any fix please?

For TA you could try the community patch on tauniverse.com

nope,

cant event patch the 5 files available on the universe. still have the direct x error
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install the community patch and afterwards install the hotfix which normally fixes the direct x problem

thanks man.

you da mvp and spectacles to my eyes.

So it worked?

C:\Cavedog\Kingdoms\ChooseRenderer.exe

If possible, could you elaborate? I'm having the same TAK problem, and when I go into the gog files and find it and boot CR.exe, I pick one and it still flops. To clarify, I have tried both options that come up. And I have tried to un-install and re-install as well as running in administrator as well as compatibility with older versions, starting at xp service pack 3 all the way back to windows 95.

I'm beginning to suspect that I may be missing a rendering option, as I'm seeing other posts that mention some 3D rendering option, but all I see is some voodoo BS and something called software MMX.

Last bit of information, when I bought it, it did fail three times trying to download it. On the fourth, it downloaded successfully and installed fine. I played it for about three hours until I alt-tabbed to respond to a steam message and it crashed (I'm assuming as a result of my alt-tabbing). I then left it alone for about three days, and now this.

Do you use voodoo? Try this:

hippox89 at www.kingdoms.heavenforum.org/t1366-tak-on-windows-8-8-1
"It's a long time known issue with W8, W10. It's basically because these newer windows have to emulate directdraw because they removed it after W7 (the geniuses at Microsoft), but it's broken and Microsoft doesn't bother to fix it (go figure). A solution is to dual-boot W7+W8/10. However, the community of many games has actually managed to fix the extremely poor performance with their own and better solutions.

Anyhow, I have a solution for you. Look for 'ddwrapper' (directdraw wrapper). Copy it to the TA executable. Edit aqrit and set ForceDirectDrawEmulation to '1'. Start the game and instead of 20 FPS, you'll have 900 FPS (I did). Smile Test with '+showframerate' (type into chat then press 'enter').

Edit: it seems that unfortunately that you cannot select screen after this fix is applied. I'll look for a solution, but maybe somebody else can help us with this?

Edit:

So, guys, I might have found a better solution. Use 'dgVoodoo2' instead. It's also a wrapper. Just copy the files from 'MS' into TAK. You can also just copy 'dgVoodooSetup.exe' (config tool for the dll) for convenience. With this wrapper you can still select custom resolution and experience a much better performance in W8.1 (probably W10, too). The game itself funnily says that it runs at '30' Frames now (with software render), however, my statistic server (msi afterburner tool) says that the game is actually running at '60' FPS. It most definitely feels more like '60' FPS, too. I don't know what the logic behind this is, but as long as it works, I suppose. I did notice some stutter when moving the camera around, though, sadly. All in all, I have only done limited testing,though. Try it out."

Did you solve your TAK problem?