In Armada 2, things were slightly better in that cutscenes would work and I could give orders to the Enterprise, for example, but black buttons remained and if I gave an order to a construction ship, it would move indefinitely along a straight line and just keep going. The errors remained exactky the same: the cutscenes wouldn't play (just make noise for a bit while the camera panned or zoomed out), ship models would not be shown, the map would be covered in the fog of war apart from a little corner in the top left corner, all buttons were black, etc. I've spent a long time with GOG support on this (thanks again, BTW!), and have tried almost every trick you can think of, like re-installing the Nvidia drivers, scrubbing all drivers clean, updating all drivers, doing a clean reboot, downloading and using different DirectX wrappers, and so on, and so forth. Oh yeah, and I have installed and uninstalled the games multiple times, using the offline installers (which for Armada 1 at least are marked as 'Release Candidate') and via Galaxy: none of that made any difference. Weird.)Īs in Armada 1, all the buttons are black in Armada 2 for me, too. (The Enterprise, BTW, I could control completely, moving it anywhere, including up and down the Z axis. Except when I tried to order a construction ship to do something, it moved straight ahead and kept on trucking, with no way for me to change its course. The cutscenes open, there is noise, the camera moves a bit, and after a while the game switches to the map view (in the wrong place, with no ships or other models visible except planets and dilithium moons).Īrmada 2 uses essentially the same engine and the situation there is *slightly* better: I get *some* of the ship models and am able to control some of them. The fact that the cutscenes don't play at all does suggest that something else might be at play, as I cannot understand how a graphical glitch might bork the scripting in those. I haven't had this problem before, but considering the nature of the problems, hthat must be it. I have no interest in trying VM - GOG advertises the game as running on Windows 10, so it should run on Windows 10.Īs someone noted upstream, Armada apparently doesn't like Nvidia cards.

I tried the Windows 10 patch, downloading dgVoodoo, installing DirectX 9.0, messing around with 3D Analyzer, and so on. Single monitor (as noted earlier) at 1920x1080 59/60 Hz

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