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After installing Descent (v1.4a) or Descent 2 (v1.1) by pressing the installer button "Launch" both games does not run under Windows 10.
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vnvjan: Hi there

After installing Descent (v1.4a) or Descent 2 (v1.1) by pressing the installer button "Launch" both games does not run under Windows 10.
Shrug.

Try running the actual executables or a source port.
Can you run the game right from dosbox? After you install the game just drag descent.exe onto the dosbox icon and see if that works.

EDIT: Alternatively, you can install the DXX-Rebirth source port and try running the game that way.

https://www.dxx-rebirth.com/
Post edited September 18, 2018 by b1inky
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b1inky: Can you run the game right from dosbox? After you install the game just drag descent.exe onto the dosbox icon and see if that works.

EDIT: Alternatively, you can install the DXX-Rebirth source port and try running the game that way.

https://www.dxx-rebirth.com/
Files needed for their respective sourceports, with SHA-1 hashes included:

Descent.hog 4d6fb40e943f92574aba2c9fc1574330de89905b
Descent.pig 53f6453d5a836cf660c6dcca0f636d46a28ee20c
and

DESCENT2.HAM 9f621706cbd601bd6938a44f5fb7e5cc55d4b61f
DESCENT2.HOG 8e73beb4b64a7222fa2b5214282d5e671b313992
DESCENT2.S11 72372b2fc9f88553fae6e26aba34a7c433322051
DESCENT2.S22 f67d22b5aa2e06b286719e063b4e054169a765b1
ALIEN1.PIG 80e040199b347f8f17f31afb32d551113cf40956
ALIEN2.PIG 2bbb8d941f8b06b56d5ddc7f723a206907a95548
FIRE.PIG 6365ed9256411e883189e7c2149671f9de24526b
GROUPA.PIG fc3dd5059ff445986d05c143c54284bd7ec2ee68
ICE.PIG f3df0545359e9f2a7f58a4dd07615bd87cce10bf
INTRO-H.MVL 9614aac967aa9f2efe10af553e506e27bb91e5ba
OTHER-H.MVL e8f1a2d643feb2731fc05974ab202c4cd3aea0fd
ROBOTS-L.MVL 42be364b135bb2c3497ca39839533bde49c08644
WATER.PIG 1874f70353680a803811a5ff2cce949e3f5d5076
ROBOTS-H.MVL c130ecda730b5ce111947308a33b7911759fb3a5
Post edited September 21, 2018 by TheBigCore