it doesnt load the main menu but it does load the music thats all PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO FIX IT INSTED OF EVERY THING ELSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Read some of the other Community Discussions. It tells you how to get this running.

I just don't want to find bits and pieces of a puzzle when you can have everystep right here. PS can you link a discussion that has the how to on it

View the board, "Rogue Squadron runs flawlessly now".

Also, view the top sticky board for instructions on enhanced play.

if you are using duel monitors that could be a problem. was an issue for me for a bit.
if that doesnt work then try running as admin or using the GoG galaxy program thing. works for me and i hope it helps you

What program thing? I cant get this game to work at all! It acts like its going to load up but then goes to a black screen and crashes.

He said it right there (and like a year ago), the GOG Galaxy "program thing", GOG's own game installer/launcher, lol?

Sigh, someone needs to sticky a thread with the common solutions. To me the easiest way to run these oldies is with dgVoodoo 2
http://dege.freeweb.hu/dgVoodoo2/dgVoodoo2.html

All I needed to do was extract it all then plop the 3 DLL files from dgVoodoo 2's MS folder into the same folder as the game's exe files are located and finally drop dgVoodooCpl.exe in there as well and simply run it to configure the game.

If your antivirus blocks this exe it's a false positive, it is safe and very popular. My antivirus used to flag it but has fixed it since.

The settings I personally use are MAX resolution in the DX tab, as well as using the best virtual GPU option - dgVoodoo Virtual 3D Accelerated Card with 2048MB VRAM - then disabling the watermarks and whatever else I like enabling and you may or may not wish to, like 16xAF and 8xAA. In the general tab make sure you choose the Centered scaling mode, for some reason forcing 4:3 or other modes doesn't work (in the latest version at the time of writing) but Centered somehow makes it so. This could differ in later versions after this post so that's the setting you need to fiddle with in order to get the proper aspect ratio (round radar in-game).

When you first run the game you might need to go to the "Hardware Configuration" in the launcher, then "Change 3D Video Card" and select the dgVoodoo DirectX Wrapper. Or the game might automatically do that perceiving it as the only option.

Absolutely nothing else was needed, no compatibility mode settings or tweaks or other programs or whatever else.

The camera bug some people discuss where the view becomes way too distant as you play is maintained but I prefer the cockpit camera or the close-up camera right after the cockpit camera in the view cycle anyway so it's not a problem for me. Just make cycling the camera your first job after starting a level.

There is a way to use dgVoodoo 2 from a central location so you don't need to clone the exe in every game's folder (though you'll need to copy the relevant DLL files manually still) but you can figure that out yourselves if you want (or if you even have more games where it would work, currently I have Rogue Squadron 3D, MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries - which btw requires the VRAM to be set to 1024MB, it doesn't run with 2048 - and SWAT 3 installed so I've done that). This is just a short guide to play this game using simple steps anyone can manage if they know how to download and extract/move files.

I believe features like "Phong shading" I keep enabled don't actually work in these games, but they also don't break anything.

All of the above on a Windows 10 64 bit installation with an i7 CPU and GTX1080 GPU so definitely very far from what the game was originally intended to run on back in 1998 and yet dgVoodoo 2 makes it work and perform like a charm.