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Posted March 09, 2013
the fix works!
Posted March 10, 2013
The "fix" does nothing...
anybody else got any further solutions or are we waiting on gog for this one?
Posted May 28, 2013
now ok, I dealt with this Sh*t finally:

download this patch:

http://www.gsc-game.com/index.php?t=downloads&ss=299&s=patch

and extract it to somewhere.

then

make copy of D:\GOG.com\Cossacks Anthology\Cossacks - Art Of War\mdraw.dll and delete original file (mdraw.dll)

NOW

copy downloaded patch ddraw.dll IN PLACE OF mdraw.dll (copy to dir and RENAME to mdraw.dll)

THEY FAILED TO NOTICE US THAT YOU NEED TO CHANGE FILENAME AS WELL (I MEAN DOWNLOADED ONE)

now it works. hope this helps. good luck. (my system is WIn7 x64, Nvidia Quadro1000M, latest drivers - whose download didn't help)
Post edited May 28, 2013 by baranello
Posted August 30, 2013
@baranello: You are my hero. That finally fixed this annoying issue. I've got my laptop hooked to a 24" monitor and what you said finally fixed it.

Of course, now the colour issue is back, but that's fixed by killing explorer before starting the game. Now I can go into the game and change the resolution to 1920x1080 and it works just great. Thanks so much!
Posted January 31, 2014
Guys you can also use the DXWND fix the same as for Eador. Google for "oldgames.ru dxwnd" it's a small program that hooks direct draw... can be used to make many games that have mouse/blackscreen problems run well. Sadly it's only available from this russian site (oldgames.ru). Gog should really work harder it's no fun if you have to fix the games yourself :-(.

I just tried the fix with the DLL too... so if using DXWND you can play all the Cossacks games... but only windowed in native resolution. The DLL works not really... I am having intel integrated graphics but resolution changes frequently lead to crashes and sometimes shit is just buggy/strangely colored.
Post edited January 31, 2014 by sjohne
Posted August 17, 2014
Just tried Fisk86 fix and it worked, cheers for that.
Running on a sony laptop 64bit windows 7

Now lets go back 10 years and have some fun
Posted September 01, 2015
Upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 7 (where Cossacks Back to War worked really well).
Was prompted to install "Direct Play".
Cossacks comes up OK, but mouse pointer does not move.

Is there any fix for this or plan to fix this?

tia

PS tried the dddraw.dell fix described above, did not work

PPS having some success with www.play-old-pc-games.com/ (DXWnd), managed to can play a (networked) game.

PPPS Be great if GOG could fix this though
Post edited September 01, 2015 by skiwier
Posted September 11, 2015
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skiwier: Upgraded to Windows 10
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Cossacks comes up OK, but mouse pointer does not move.
Same here!

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skiwier: PPS having some success with www.play-old-pc-games.com/ (DXWnd), managed to can play a (networked) game.
How did you come so far? I would be happy if i could play :(
I have downloaded DXWnd from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dxwnd/?source=typ_redirect
with the instructions from
http://www.play-old-pc-games.com/compatibility-tools/using-dxwnd/

The program works as far as i can see, but i cant find a profile for Cossacks in the "export"-Folder...?
Did you create a profile for cossacks on your own?
Or did you download the profile from elsewhere? (couldnt find one so far)

I would be grateful for any help here, i would really love to play cossacks again!! :)

P.S.: I couldnt do that trick from Fisk86, because i have Win10 and the Menus are all different :(
If i click "detect" in step 2, there is no sign that says "another display not detected"
Post edited September 11, 2015 by michilud
Posted September 17, 2015
Hey, if anyone finds any solution, i would still be really happy about it, even if its in a few months ;)
Still waiting for a solution here ;)
Post edited September 17, 2015 by michilud
Posted October 13, 2015
Upgraded from win 8.1 to 10.
Was able to install 'The art of war' without any issues but the mouse does not move on the game menu
using 'RENAME to mdraw.dll' suggested by baranello - the mouse does seem to move but i am not able to see the pointer moving.

Tried the running the game in virtualbox on win XP but I am not able to change the resolution to 1024x768x8 due to which the game fails to start. somehow the mdraw.dll solution does not work in virtualbox.

Please help
Posted October 24, 2015
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CountRaven: None of the Cossack games seems to let me move the mouse pointer once I arrive at the main menu. The music plays but I cannot go any further.

I am running Windows 7 and ran the installastion file with administer privliges and in XP compatibility mode.
Restarting the computer did not work and I am sure my drivers are up to date.
Reinstalling also failed to fix it.

The two Thief games and Deus Ex which I purchased at the same time are working well.
download this one
http://1drv.ms/1PdUqU6
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CountRaven: I am running Windows 7 and ran the installastion file with administer privliges and in XP compatibility mode.
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F4LL0UT: Is it possible that you have a Quad Core CPU? The games seem to have problems with those.
http://1drv.ms/1PdUqU6

Please let me know whether this solved the problem.
download this one:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!Aut88MVjtQZZkCQG_ftK2_UKmUMi]. It fixes all the problems!!!!!
add http: before!

https://1drv.ms/u/s!Aut88MVjtQZZkCQG_ftK2_UKmUMi[/url] I bought it .
Post edited September 15, 2016 by benjaminyang
Posted October 28, 2015
AWESOME!!!
It worked!
Thank you so much :) :) :)
Posted November 01, 2015
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CountRaven: None of the Cossack games seems to let me move the mouse pointer once I arrive at the main menu. The music plays but I cannot go any further.

I am running Windows 7 and ran the installastion file with administer privliges and in XP compatibility mode.
Restarting the computer did not work and I am sure my drivers are up to date.
Reinstalling also failed to fix it.

The two Thief games and Deus Ex which I purchased at the same time are working well.
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benjaminyang: download this one
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=5906B563C5F07CEB!1535&authkey=!ACCntTr-kasQM6M&ithint=file%2cexe
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F4LL0UT: Is it possible that you have a Quad Core CPU? The games seem to have problems with those.

There are some tools out there that allow you to set the affinity before running an application. The one I tried was Set Affinity II. You can find it here.

Please let me know whether this solved the problem.
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benjaminyang: download this one:
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=5906B563C5F07CEB!1535&authkey=!ACCntTr-kasQM6M&ithint=file%2cexe

download this one. It fixes all the problems!!!!!
add http: before!

//onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=5906B563C5F07CEB!1535&authkey=!ACCntTr-kasQM6M&ithint=file%2cexe
Hi
I am also having trouble with the mouse not moving in Cossacks I tried the link you have provided but it says the file has been moved or deleted. Any help would be appreciated Thanks in advance.
Posted November 24, 2015
https://1drv.ms/u/s!Aut88MVjtQZZkCQG_ftK2_UKmUMi



fix all issues
Post edited September 15, 2016 by benjaminyang
Posted December 19, 2015
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benjaminyang: onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=5906B563C5F07CEB!1613&authkey=!AL-fkmWYsBv6NcI&ithint=file %2cexe

add http:// before

fix all issues
hi,

the link seems be dead :/

Is there someone with a working link to this patch

thank you ;)
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