Game not working on windows 8 , tried all combatibility settings but dont work

any news?

It works fine on my Windows 8 32-bit, just bought PG2 yesterday and tried it this morning.

well mine is 64 bit

Same exact thing is happening to me. Windows 8 64 bit, game encounters problem and never opens.

I installed the game on Win8-Pro/64bit and it starts without problems here. Privilege level in the properties for the desktop icon (Panzer General 2 Properties) shows 'Run this program as an administrator'. No compatibility mode set.

I was having this problem, too. Installing DirectX 9 seems to have fixed it for me:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35

Update: I also had to remove ddraw.dll from the install folder in order to get OpenGeneral to work (I just renamed it to ddraw.dll.bak).

First of all: PG2 can be configured to run on Windows 8 64-bit. What's more, it doesn't need a DirectDraw fix as on Windows 7.

But now listen to me: without knowing what your EXACT problem is, how do you think we can help you? Nobody can guess your problem, if you just write that something "dont work". I will not teach you this time how to ask for help, I'll just write the most common PG2 problem here:

When you try to start the game, windows closes it and display a message that the application stopped working. To fix it, go to the installed game folder, and rename ddraw.dll and d3dx9_42.dll files to something else (for example: ddraw.dll.sav, and d3dx9_42.dll.sav). After that the game won't crash (at least not for this reason).

Please let me know if this fixes your problem. If not, we will continue the investigation.

I am not the OP, but had the same problem. This fix worked! Thanks so much!!!

i ll try this thanks

edit: it works! Thanks!

You are welcome. :)

I am on Windows8 64bit. I tried the fix listed by Trevize, but it was unsuccessful. However, installing DirectX 9 fixed it for me as well.

Thanks :-)

Interestingly, the game worked fine for me in Windows 8.1 Preview. I installed the release version of 8.1 today and PZ2 broke.

I used Trevize's recommendation and the game is now working in 8.1

The fix given by Trevise worked for me as well. Thanks.

Many thanks, this solved my problem!! I'm running Win8.1 Update (64bit) on a laptop.