YOU'RE MY ABSOLUTE HERO! I just bought a dozen games and this is the one I'll be playing. Held back getting it for so long because of compatibility but now I can beat it for like the fifth time. Seriously, thank you.

I disabled every HID-compliant vendor-defined device and still no dice. I don't think I missed any of the steps mentioned here. Still getting the instant close after the little black box. Any other suggestions?

Ok, so i brought shogo and got it working, I had the same black box issue. My solution is as follows:

1. Go to this comment ( https://github.com/elishacloud/dxwrapper/issues/54#issuecomment-537794922 ) and download the dinput.dll and put it in the main directory. This will allow the game to launch and stop the black box crash issue.

2. Download and run this exe ( https://www.moddb.com/downloads/shogo-fix )
your browser might flag it as unsafe but i had no issues running it with defender, it's a false positive anyway the file is safe.

3. Download the Shogo_21-9.rar file from Attachments on this page (https://www.wsgf.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=95&t=28031 ) and ONLY extract the D3DIM.DLL file to your main directory.

4. Run Shogo.exe and choose Display, it should be set on dgVoodoo and now you can also set the resolution to over 1080p without it going back to 640x480.

5. Choose Customize from the launcher and make sure the widescreen patch is under "Rez files to load" and "Always load these rez files" is ticked

6. Go to Advanced and make sure the only boxes ticked are "Enable Poly Gap Fixing" and "Enable Triple Buffering"

7. Launch the game and (hopefully) enjoy!

Just wanted to bump this. Step one with the dll was enough to make the game run for me after getting dgVoodoo.

Thank you so much!

So after doing all this, the game finally runs
only problem is, now the menu background texture us gray and my weapon model texture is just blank white

Just in case someone will face the same issue I had. On Windows 11, I've followed all the steps from the first post and from this post and game started successfully, but in a tiny little window in the middle of the screen. What helped me is to go to properties of `\Shogo - Mobile Armor Division\Shogo.exe` file and in "Compatibility" tab set "Compatibility mode" to "Windows XP (Service Pack 2)" (Windows 98 didn't help). Now, with all applied fixed the game runs smoothly without any lag in menus and game, without flickering, without mouse appearance in any resolution I choose. Hope this helps.

I also have Windows 11 and followed all these instructions and changed compatibility to Windows XP (Service Pack 2) and it still shows up in only a small window in the middle of the screen. any ideas?

Yeah I guess I'm not buying this game until GOG gets around to actually making sure the game runs out of the box on modern Windows versions.

Oh well.

Open dgVoodoo control panel (run dgVoodooCpl.exe), go to "DirectX" tab, uncheck the "Application controlled fullscreen/windowed sta..." and "Disable Alt-Enter to toggle screen state" boxes in the "Behavior" group, then hit "Apply" and run the game. Worked for me.