Posted March 13, 2022
Good evening everyone,
I have recently switched my desktop PC to windows 11 and noticed that Settlers 3 does not start anymore.
It works perfectly fine if I start it on my win 10 based notebook.
Checking the Settlers 3 sub forum I found that, on older versions of the game, the winmm.dll would cause problems.
However it seems that since then the GoG teams fixed this matter, as I can not find such a file in my settlers 3 folder anymore.
I have tried doing a clean reinstall of the game, as well as a full reinstall of GoG Galaxy, assuming it might be a problem of the client still thinking I am on windows 10 and making some wrong connection while installing or launching the game.
Neither solved the problem. Changing settings in the settler setup file did not help any, either.
I have noted the following things about the issue:
If I use the desktop shortcut to start the game, Galaxy starts and opens the game page.
If I try to use the "start" button on galaxy, it greys out for about one second and then becomes available again (Task manager says the .exe starts for about half a second and stops immediately.
If I try to start the executable right in the game menu, It asks me to start the game as admin. If I agree, it tells me "_inmm.dll not found in game folder" and closes the .exe.
In neither of those cases the game shows any visual queue of starting up.
The error message I get when starting the .exe directly makes me think that maybe the fix applied by GoG a few year back might not work on the new windows version anymore, but that is just my uneducated guess.
Maybe someone here has a better idea?
I have recently switched my desktop PC to windows 11 and noticed that Settlers 3 does not start anymore.
It works perfectly fine if I start it on my win 10 based notebook.
Checking the Settlers 3 sub forum I found that, on older versions of the game, the winmm.dll would cause problems.
However it seems that since then the GoG teams fixed this matter, as I can not find such a file in my settlers 3 folder anymore.
I have tried doing a clean reinstall of the game, as well as a full reinstall of GoG Galaxy, assuming it might be a problem of the client still thinking I am on windows 10 and making some wrong connection while installing or launching the game.
Neither solved the problem. Changing settings in the settler setup file did not help any, either.
I have noted the following things about the issue:
If I use the desktop shortcut to start the game, Galaxy starts and opens the game page.
If I try to use the "start" button on galaxy, it greys out for about one second and then becomes available again (Task manager says the .exe starts for about half a second and stops immediately.
If I try to start the executable right in the game menu, It asks me to start the game as admin. If I agree, it tells me "_inmm.dll not found in game folder" and closes the .exe.
In neither of those cases the game shows any visual queue of starting up.
The error message I get when starting the .exe directly makes me think that maybe the fix applied by GoG a few year back might not work on the new windows version anymore, but that is just my uneducated guess.
Maybe someone here has a better idea?
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