List of Games working on Windows 10  

I don't know if it's been mentioned yet (this thread is very long), but DiRT 2 is crashing on me right before it makes me choose a vehicle for a race. Too bad, I love that game. So far everything else I've tried works fine though.

DinkDink said:

With or without the new launcher you linked me?

With the new launcher I get the menu pop up but I get that error I quoted in the status box.

Without the new one, like I said before, it doesn't launch the game.

Windows 10, must have ate my Demoshield driver or it just doesn't have the driver or an up to date program to replace it.

It's retarded, my 2000 Dell with crappy everything almost runs it but doesn't have the graphics card. This new Laptop can run the heck out of the game if it could just get to the game! Are the computer/software companies now reducing our replay value to 9 year intervals until they abandon the software?

I played BG:SoA for like 15 years on five different PC's, two replaced because of power serge's frying them. None of those forgot to build on the previous OS when they upgraded to new garbage, I mean what if I get a crash in five years, will Attila: TotalWar be useless to own unless it came through Steam? Consumer value must be second to money making these days.

This makes me want to find a much older OS and uninstall Win-Ten. I don't believe you played this game on this OS. If you did it was the version you bought online at Steam years after I bought the original disc set.

And that sux, Microsoft should have the stock drivers in the new OS, or I'm calling it lazy design. It has an option to run it in older versions back to ME but nothing happens any different by selection that in the compatibility selection. I feel like that feature is just for show.

I have, you, Saga, The Org, and another TW forum working this issue. I'm hopelessly depressed and upset now....

*End Rant*

I haven't played the game, no, but it doesn't mean that all is lost, this list was compiled from everyone contributing to it since october 2014 using the Technical Preview of Windows 10, this was surprisingly stable considering it's early stage, what I meant by running the medieval2.exe was the executable directly, without the launcher at all, your current setup was launcher> click play, doesn't work, how I meant was, skip the launcher (the activation servers not doing their job (lovely DRM but that's another debate for another day)) and go straight to the executable for the game (the thing that is supposed to launch when you click play on the launcher), what is happening is, the click play button goes via an online activation server to verify you own the game, clearly it doesn't work and will never work, albeit either from updated software or servers not working etc....

so, what do we do from here, you could contact the game supplier and demand a steam key for your troubles (explaining the exhaustive lengths you've gone to to get the game working) or you can give in and admit defeat, while also leaving a sour taste in your mouth from either microsoft for not providing support for a 10 year old game, or with the game developer for not supporting new operating systems.

I think the wise choice is to go with the free key option myself, but that's just me.

Either way, there's not much else I can do but I would like to know what the outcome of this is, just so I can relay any information to other users with the same issue (let's face it, there will be).


edit: or it could be as simple as patching the game with this Total War: Medieval 2 (Gamespy Editon) - Patch 1.5 Knowledge Base

I think we all need to wait for an update, SR1 (Service Release 1) has just been released, check your updates and try again.

Paulofeg said:

I'm going to try this again and see if i can get it to work but if i can't i'll buy you a copy of simcity 3000 unlimited and mail it to you mrneeds :)

Ha, awesome, I'm sure it's available for cheap on amazon or something hehe.