Hello,

I recently bought and am trying to play I-War 1 & 2. I-War 1 works fine without any further configuration, videos & in-game working fine, it even picks up my HOTAS fine.

For some reason however, I-War 2 refuses to do anything. I have tried different compatibility settings, have ensured that DEP runs only for necessary windows files & services, have tried switching DEP to everything but excluding I-War 2, and nothing works. The game is installed on the "F:\Games" directory.

Occasionally, when the windows compatibility troubleshooter comes up and I select "apply fixes", I get the "cannot find game disc" error. I have mounted a random ISO using Windows Explorer, and since then the error has not re-appeared - now I am consistently getting a black screen.

The thing that strikes out at me from the flux log is that my VGA (GTX 970) is unable to support resolutions at 8-bit, but works fine with other settings (passes other resolution/video checks). Another is that in the flux.ini I see this:
video_driver = "NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT" - not sure if this is set as it should be.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

Do you have multiple graphics cards? The game may get confused with that and you might have to disable one in the device manager.

Also try to install the latest NVidia drivers for your GPU.

If that doesn't work, I'm out of ideas :( Seems like you already followed all of the advice in our TechFAQ.

I know this is reviving a VERY dead thread... But I had the same problem and found a solution. Basically the shortcut that you get is for the loader.exe. And that doesn't work in windows 10. When I pull up my task manager it just starts and the exits quietly after a second or two. But if I try running the EdgeOfChaos.exe and press play it starts. Now I get a message telling me to insert the CD. Any CD will do. So if you have a CD drive just don't have it be empty. If you don't then install a virtual drive like Daemon Tools or Virtual Clonedrive and open an iso image. I just put in game.gog from my Caesar II installation. And voilá it worked.... Well it crashed because I had removed compatibility settings but once I set it to Windows XP compatibility it loaded. And considering I'm running a real low-end laptop with Celeron dual core processor and intel graphics it actually runs quite well.

For what its worth im running Win 10 pro 1803 (17134.81) x64 with an AMD 8350 and a GTX970 and can play without issue installing from Galaxy.