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Posted June 10, 2017
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MarkoH01: Ever heard of the term "false positive?".
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MacGyvers_Mullet: Absolutely. I'm assuming you some sort of evidence or proof that this is a false positive?

It would be pretty stupid of me to download a file that Chrome and Windows Defender both identified as a trojan based on one sarcastic forum post.
Don't know where you read soemthing sarcastic and it was never meant to be that way. I just asked if you heard the term since there are people out there who do believe whatever "their" antivirus is telling them not even knowing that this does not necessarily mean that there actually is anything wrong with it. Sorry if you felt offended by my question - as said it was not my intention.

To answer your second question regarding my proof. Generally I don't have any - I was only commenting on the post (or rather two of them) because both were only stating one anti virus program and none of any other users (obviously running other programs) did have any problems. What I want to say with so many words here (to prevent being misunderstood) is simple: don't let ONE anti virus alert let you panic. Get other opinions as well. To do this sites like virustotal.com where invented.

I just scanned the link and got a 1/64 hit of it containing malware.
https://www.virustotal.com/de/url/8ed97cffc43fb59b5bac7b6f38eda5885fda189efedb2bc843a85be0c6b3a6db/analysis/
Post edited June 10, 2017 by MarkoH01
Posted November 25, 2017
Thank you for the tip! It worked!
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MarkoH01: http://noxcommunity.com/downloads.php#

Click "Main" chose NOXSolution and install it. It helped me getting my game to run. No further steps required.
Thank you for the tip! It worked!
Post edited November 25, 2017 by PetrusMatrix
Posted December 26, 2017
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Using Galaxy I was able to get a workaround which doesn't require downloading an extra file. Here is what I did:

I set BOTH "Game.exe" compatibility mode to Windows 98/ Windows ME and Nox.exe compatibility to Windows XP SP2. That did the trick and now I can launch and play the game through Galaxy.

Hope that helps someone.
Posted January 19, 2018
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MarkoH01: http://noxcommunity.com/downloads.php#

Click "Main" chose NOXSolution and install it. It helped me getting my game to run. No further steps required.
FINALLY ! Thanks so much.

I really appreciate your help, I had been trying to fix this for ages.

Worked first time, no problems. If only patching every old game was so easy.
Posted February 19, 2018
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cameran: Using Galaxy I was able to get a workaround which doesn't require downloading an extra file. Here is what I did:

I set BOTH "Game.exe" compatibility mode to Windows 98/ Windows ME and Nox.exe compatibility to Windows XP SP2. That did the trick and now I can launch and play the game through Galaxy.

Hope that helps someone.
This worked for me. Thanks for the tip!
Posted February 24, 2018
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cameran: Using Galaxy I was able to get a workaround which doesn't require downloading an extra file. Here is what I did:

I set BOTH "Game.exe" compatibility mode to Windows 98/ Windows ME and Nox.exe compatibility to Windows XP SP2. That did the trick and now I can launch and play the game through Galaxy.

Hope that helps someone.
Great, thank you!
Posted March 25, 2018
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cameran: Using Galaxy I was able to get a workaround which doesn't require downloading an extra file. Here is what I did:

I set BOTH "Game.exe" compatibility mode to Windows 98/ Windows ME and Nox.exe compatibility to Windows XP SP2. That did the trick and now I can launch and play the game through Galaxy.

Hope that helps someone.
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marantana: Great, thank you!
Thanks mate, worked for me!!!
Posted December 24, 2018
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cameran: Using Galaxy I was able to get a workaround which doesn't require downloading an extra file. Here is what I did:

I set BOTH "Game.exe" compatibility mode to Windows 98/ Windows ME and Nox.exe compatibility to Windows XP SP2. That did the trick and now I can launch and play the game through Galaxy.

Hope that helps someone.
Thanks! This worked for me too.
Posted March 22, 2019
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cameran: Using Galaxy I was able to get a workaround which doesn't require downloading an extra file. Here is what I did:

I set BOTH "Game.exe" compatibility mode to Windows 98/ Windows ME and Nox.exe compatibility to Windows XP SP2. That did the trick and now I can launch and play the game through Galaxy.

Hope that helps someone.
Thank you!
Posted January 29, 2020
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cameran: Using Galaxy I was able to get a workaround which doesn't require downloading an extra file. Here is what I did:

I set BOTH "Game.exe" compatibility mode to Windows 98/ Windows ME and Nox.exe compatibility to Windows XP SP2. That did the trick and now I can launch and play the game through Galaxy.

Hope that helps someone.
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marantana: Great, thank you!
That actually worked :o
Posted January 31, 2020
The simplest and safest way that I have found to run NOX in windows 10 64 bit without dowloading external exes, no compatibility checkings, working music, no lag in sound, no flickering at start or working dx surfaces is to download ddrawcompat, it is just a ddraw.dll wrapper that does not replace anything in the game folder and runs the game perfectly.

The other solutions worked for me but the game suffered lagged sound and was a little slow. ddrawcompat seems to run the game fine. GOG should think about using this file or something similar.

greetings
Posted February 12, 2020
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Gudadantza: The simplest and safest way that I have found to run NOX in windows 10 64 bit without dowloading external exes, no compatibility checkings, working music, no lag in sound, no flickering at start or working dx surfaces is to download ddrawcompat, it is just a ddraw.dll wrapper that does not replace anything in the game folder and runs the game perfectly.

The other solutions worked for me but the game suffered lagged sound and was a little slow. ddrawcompat seems to run the game fine. GOG should think about using this file or something similar.

greetings
OH wow! This worked perfectly! Before the game wouldn't work past the title screen but after I downloaded and pasted the file into the game file and it works :) THANKS!!!
Posted June 01, 2020
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Gudadantza: The simplest and safest way that I have found to run NOX in windows 10 64 bit without dowloading external exes, no compatibility checkings, working music, no lag in sound, no flickering at start or working dx surfaces is to download ddrawcompat, it is just a ddraw.dll wrapper that does not replace anything in the game folder and runs the game perfectly.

The other solutions worked for me but the game suffered lagged sound and was a little slow. ddrawcompat seems to run the game fine. GOG should think about using this file or something similar.

greetings
You are a genius. Thank you. Now it works. The trick with compatibility settings didn't work for me on my win 8.1. But the ddrawcompat worked immediately without any comp. settings. First, I thought it killed my sound of the game, but it was changeable in the options of the game. Thanks. :)
Posted June 01, 2020
I am glad it worked as good as did for me.

Additionally this wrapper can be used also in other titles using dx6-7 etc... There are cases GOG versions do have a similar or more advanced/specific wrapper, though.

It is question of put the file in the game in particular and see if it works better than vanilla. It is worth the try.
Posted July 16, 2020
After some W10 updates I found NOX stopped working (hangs in flikkering screen).
The above mentioned DDrawcompat solution didn't work for me on my laptop with W10 Home V.1909 64bit.

After some research and tweaking I found this solution that works for me on (currently) W10 Home V.1909:
- From the GOG forum (credits to MarkoH01) I got the link to http-//noxcommunity.com/downloads.php#
- Click there on "Main", chose NOXSolution and install it.
- Then use the now installed Launcher.exe (see NOX gamedir if no shortcut!) to tweak the startup config into:
- (Press settings) > Important for me where: SDL Mode ON, Maintain Aspect Ratio ON and Renderer OPENGL
- Also both Game.Exe and NOX.Exe I put in W98/W Me compatibility. 16 bit color, Optimization turned off, Run As Administrator.
- With DirectX as Renderer I kept getting NOX to freeze after some time (sometimes fast sometimes after 20 min.), with OpenGL I have had no problems jet (with several hours of continues play!).

I hope those that are still stuck will be helped with this information!

Have fun playing NOX!
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