Posted October 05, 2019

Yodadoodah
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Registered: Jan 2011
From Australia

James_Blood
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Registered: Dec 2013
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Posted February 16, 2020

the ancient version of winmm.dll bundled with EU1 does not work in Windows 10.
Post edited February 16, 2020 by James_Blood

Napean
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Registered: Oct 2011
From United States
Posted May 28, 2021

Enigma83
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Registered: Jan 2012
From United States
Posted September 14, 2021
It's weird that people are saying that EU1 isn't working on W10. 3 days ago I install W10 Enterprise 21H2 on my Sager gaming laptop.
My hardware:
i7-7700K
Nvidia GTX 1080
64GB Corsair Vengeance RAM
Surprisingly, the game launches just fine with no compatibility settings applied. Which is different from my previous results the last time I tested it. But the music doesn't work, which I expected. So I applied my own fix that I posted about some time ago:
https://www.gog.com/forum/europa_universalis_series/fix_for_music_not_working_and_widescreen_in_europa_universalis_1original
I do believe that using dgVoodoo with EU1 is optional, but in my opinion it helps. DxWnd would probably also work. The main reason that alot of old games don't work on W10, is because of graphics issues. 3rd party programs like these help to mitigate that.
My hardware:
i7-7700K
Nvidia GTX 1080
64GB Corsair Vengeance RAM
Surprisingly, the game launches just fine with no compatibility settings applied. Which is different from my previous results the last time I tested it. But the music doesn't work, which I expected. So I applied my own fix that I posted about some time ago:
https://www.gog.com/forum/europa_universalis_series/fix_for_music_not_working_and_widescreen_in_europa_universalis_1original
I do believe that using dgVoodoo with EU1 is optional, but in my opinion it helps. DxWnd would probably also work. The main reason that alot of old games don't work on W10, is because of graphics issues. 3rd party programs like these help to mitigate that.
Post edited September 14, 2021 by Enigma83

sedryntyros
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Registered: Mar 2013
From United States
Posted December 02, 2021
Here is a proper fix to get the GOG version of Europa Universalis working on Windows 10:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h7J7yE_EOJaSBD7JHXASfQMgrEf05F7w/
1) Run the GOG installer using default path of C:\GOG Games\Europa Universalis
2) Execute "Europa Universalis (GOG) - compatibility settings for native Win10 GOG install.reg" to set required application compatibility flags in Windows 10 registry
3) Execute "Europa Universalis fixed Music (ogg vorbis from CDDA) for GOG install.exe" self-extracting archive and leave default destination of "c:\", overwriting existing files. This replaces the winmm.dll with the ogg-winmm-1.3.0.0 version and replaces the ogg audio track with an improved rip taken from the CD version of the game and includes additional tracks that aren't actually played but their presence is needed for the music to work (all the tracks play from track02.ogg so that file includes all 5 tracks back-to-back).
That's all, folks. Enjoy!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h7J7yE_EOJaSBD7JHXASfQMgrEf05F7w/
1) Run the GOG installer using default path of C:\GOG Games\Europa Universalis
2) Execute "Europa Universalis (GOG) - compatibility settings for native Win10 GOG install.reg" to set required application compatibility flags in Windows 10 registry
3) Execute "Europa Universalis fixed Music (ogg vorbis from CDDA) for GOG install.exe" self-extracting archive and leave default destination of "c:\", overwriting existing files. This replaces the winmm.dll with the ogg-winmm-1.3.0.0 version and replaces the ogg audio track with an improved rip taken from the CD version of the game and includes additional tracks that aren't actually played but their presence is needed for the music to work (all the tracks play from track02.ogg so that file includes all 5 tracks back-to-back).
That's all, folks. Enjoy!
Post edited December 02, 2021 by sedryntyros

gbanshee
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Registered: Jan 2013
From Poland
Posted January 03, 2022

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h7J7yE_EOJaSBD7JHXASfQMgrEf05F7w/
1) Run the GOG installer using default path of C:\GOG Games\Europa Universalis
2) Execute "Europa Universalis (GOG) - compatibility settings for native Win10 GOG install.reg" to set required application compatibility flags in Windows 10 registry
3) Execute "Europa Universalis fixed Music (ogg vorbis from CDDA) for GOG install.exe" self-extracting archive and leave default destination of "c:\", overwriting existing files. This replaces the winmm.dll with the ogg-winmm-1.3.0.0 version and replaces the ogg audio track with an improved rip taken from the CD version of the game and includes additional tracks that aren't actually played but their presence is needed for the music to work (all the tracks play from track02.ogg so that file includes all 5 tracks back-to-back).
That's all, folks. Enjoy!