Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate

The Windows 10 issues that others have reported do appear to be solvable with a few fixes as described in this YouTube video (https://youtu.be/dbgp5kHheu8). Having now installed and played the game I have found that my experience appears to have been much better than most have reported. I am not sure if this is because of recent updates to Windows 10 or the fact that I'm using an AMD video card. I'll describe what I found, the fix I applied, and also my PC specs in case this helps others: [b]INSTALLATION[/b] The game installed, using the default installation directory, without issue. Note that GOG recommend that the installation path only have 2 subfolders and 35 characters total to avoid the game crashing when starting a mission ([url=]https://www.gog.com/support/warhammer_40000_chaos_gate/the_game_is_crashing_when_starting_a_mission[/url]). [b]THREE BLACK & WHITE MINI SCREENS[/b] On starting the game the various developer/publisher logo movies played perfectly. I did NOT experience the three black and white mini screens issue. The game intro movie then played, again without issue, ending with the main menu. [b]STUTTERING ISSUE[/b] I DID experience the cursor stuttering issue and so applied the fix described in the YouTube video (and also here [url=]https://www.gog.com/forum/warhammer_40000_chaos_gate/windows_10_stuttering_fix_for_renamed_executable[/url]). Note that I did NOT rename the game executable, I left it as WH40K.exe. This solved the stuttering for me. [b]MUSIC VOLUME ISSUE[/b] I'm not sure what others experienced, but I found no issue with the in-game music and the ability to adjust its volume via the options screen. So, I did NOT apply the music volume fix. [b]UNIT ANIMATION ISSUE[/b] Similarly to the music volume issue, I found no issue with unit animation, its speed or the ability to adjust the speed via the options screen. As such, I did NOT apply the unit animation fix. [b]MY PC SPECS[/b] OS: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (v1511 - fully updated as of 30 July 2016) Processor: Intel i7-875K overclocked to 3.85GHz Memory: 8GB RAM Graphics: AMD Radeon R9 390 (Asus STRIX-R9390-DC3OC-8GD5-GAMING) Graphics Driver: AMD Radeon Crimson v16.3.2 with GPU Scaling turned ON Monitor: Dell U3415W Screen Resolution: 3440 x 1440 [b]SUMMARY[/b] So in summary, the only fix I implemented was a simple registry change to fix the cursor stuttering issue. This could easily be fixed by GOG incorporating this registry change into the installation executable. The fact that this hasn't already been done is disappointing to say the least. BTW - love the game and highly recommend it. With the stuttering fix in place the game is easily a 5 star game for me.

Fun game, its aesthetics, score and gameplay are solid. In my opinion, one of the best games of WH40k.

At the currrent time of writting 1/14/24 on windows 11 it runs like a champ. Thanks GOG for bringing this classic back to life. So many good memeries playing this with my dad when I was a wee lad. Just as good as I remeber

It's a mix of mandatory story-related sequential missions interspersed with optional randomized simple side missions. Troops gain better stats with experience and can equip different weapons, but limited to codex compliancy (e.g. you can't equip a whole tactical squad with heavy bolters, even if you had enough). You can also find unique weapons with better stats hidden in some missions. The story is pretty basic WH40K fluff, moved forward in the form of technically pretty good cutscenes for the time, but with sometimes beyond corny dialogue. Overall a very good game with lots of tactical options, but quite hard bordering on the unfair on the higher difficulties.

This game is a product of its time, for better and for worse. It gloriously captures that feeling of 80s and 90s warhammer and if that's what you're into, you honestly probably already own this game! This is the game's main draw, but with troopers that progress through the campaign, new weapons and squads to unlock, and a good variety to story missions, the gameplay is very fun. There are downsides. The UI is very clunky by modern standards. This is to be expected from an old title, but it can make even simple tasks pretty labour intensive. The internal balance is pretty poor too. (Spoliers) Once you unlock terminators, and specifically give one an assault cannon, all other squads almost pale into irrelevance. Your baseline marine with a bolter quickly becomes fairly useless, especially in more confined missions such as inside a spaceship, where you can't even get them into a decent firing line and try to use mass bolter fire to make up for their individual weakness. Other quirks of the tabletop game also seep through, like how many librarian powers are incredibly niche/useless. With all that being said, it is an utterly charming game and a very nostalgic throwback to a time when Warhammer didn't take itself too seriously, and you can simply have fun chasing down a Sunday morning cartoon Chao Lord and give him the Emperor's judgment.