Aviarchis: I've been having a problem getting The Longest Journey to launch on my Windows 10 computer. When I click on the game, I get the loading icon on my cursor for a second, but no window opens. I've done this several times. When I open the Task Manager to investigate, it shows the application for The Longest Journey as running, though with 0% CPU usage and 0 MB/s disc usage. It's as though the program has frozen before it even opens the window.

Oddly enough, I was able to open the program fully once before, but if I remember correctly, the main menu didn't work properly, and I got stuck there, and when I manually closed the program, it caused problems with my screen resolution until I restarted my computer. I uninstalled it, intending to troubleshoot it at a later date, but now that I reinstalled it to try again, it won't open at all, and I can't find any posts about problems like this at all.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

DyreStraits: I own the original four discs that the game released on in 2000. I spent quite some time this evening installing the game again...and, suprisingly, it went through all the motions of installing all four discs. But, at the end, it popped up a message that DirectX cannot be installed on my Windows 10 Pro x64 system and, subsequently, I cannot even find the game anywhere on my system after all this time spent.

Since I OWN the original game discs, is there a way to get a patch/update for the game that I own?

ItsBigIan: You're all going to kick yourself. I thought I was having this issue too, but it turns out that when you launch TLJ in Galaxy, the launch window opens in the background. Launch it then minimse Galaxy and you'll see it.

ItsBigIan: You're all going to kick yourself. I thought I was having this issue too, but it turns out that when you launch TLJ in Galaxy, the launch window opens in the background. Launch it then minimse Galaxy and you'll see it.

PMIK: I know its been a couple of weeks since your post so I'm not sure if you've worked it out yet or still care.

I had the same problem when trying to launch the game from GOG galaxy

I just ran the game from the exe file in the games folder and it worked perfectly.

Hope the solution is as simple for you too.

Terridol: I know this is an old post, but what I found is that if you install SCUMMVM and add TLJ to it. It runs much better. You can even add the HD mod to improve the graphics as well.

GOG has added SCUMMVM to a lot of the older point and click games they have on the store already. I don't know why they haven't done this with TLJ.