Nyerguds: The cnc-ddraw dll (originally designed for Command & Conquer) apparently supports Nox as well. Haven't tested it yet, though.
https://github.com/CnCNet/cnc-ddraw/releases

Johanos_nl: 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!

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

Johanos_nl: 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!

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.

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.

kwerboom: You're a lifesaver! Thank you! I can also confirm that this works. I tried NOXSolution first and it didn't work at all for me (I'm guessing it doesn't play nice with 64 bit WIndows 10 21H1). I downloaded cnc-ddraw.dll, unzipped it into my NOX directory, and NOX started working just fine again.

dave031387: I'm running 64-bit Windows 10 21H2 fully patched (build 19044.1387), and tried the NOXSolution for the first time today. It worked perfectly fine for me without having to set any compatibility modes. Malwarebytes did complain that the patch file appeared "suspicious", but it didn't find any virus or malware when I scanned the file after downloading it.

I've got a lot of games I've purchased over the years from GOG.com, and I'm finding that many of these games have issues running on newer hardware/software. Most of the time, though, I can find a solution in these forums. Thanks everyone for your help! Much appreciated!!

Zack_Dresner_Barne: Hey Guys, I'm on a Macbook and trying to play NoX. Whenever I try to launch the game nothing happens at all. Any advise? I've always previously played the game on windows, I don't know if now being on Mac would cause any problems. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

dave031387: I'm running 64-bit Windows 10 21H2 fully patched (build 19044.1387), and tried the NOXSolution for the first time today. It worked perfectly fine for me without having to set any compatibility modes. Malwarebytes did complain that the patch file appeared "suspicious", but it didn't find any virus or malware when I scanned the file after downloading it.

I've got a lot of games I've purchased over the years from GOG.com, and I'm finding that many of these games have issues running on newer hardware/software. Most of the time, though, I can find a solution in these forums. Thanks everyone for your help! Much appreciated!!