I'm using Windows 10 version 1511 build 10586.494 stable and GOG Galaxy 1.1.12 (beta).
(Venom) Codename - Outbreak version 2.1
Intel i5-3570k, AMD Radeon HD7970.

If your Outbreak.exe and other game *.exe start and keep running in the background causing high CPU load but does nothing..

Here is two simple steps to fix this:

1. Open your Codename - Outbreak root folder and find 2 files:
GAME.INI
winmm.dll

The first one MUST be about 22 KB size. If it 502 Bytes or something else then delete it and click Verify / Repair button at your GOG Galaxy client (or reinstall the game if you not using it).

2. Rename winmm.dll for example to 111winmm.dll.
Windows will be use own winmm.dll from System32 folder, but not the one from game folder.
After this all *.exe files in game folder must run correctly and not to cause high CPU load.

winmm.dll is Windows Multimedia CD Audio WAV player wrapper ( https://github.com/hifi/wav-winmm/ ).

That's all you need to do.

Optional: to change resolution, controls, settings and to disable intro movies use Config.exe and Forced.exe in the game folder.
If you change resolution to 1920x1080 by editing GAME.INI you probably will not be able to start mission because you will not see menu items "Single player" at the top and "Multiplayer" at the bottom. ;)

Thank you so much the game works for me now.

Yep, this fix is really good :D. Thank you very much good man.Cheers

Thanks for the fix! +1

absolutely incredible. about to test this when I get home. Cheers!

I love you

It looks like they fixed this game since I bought it. Now it runs on my 64 bit CPU and Win 10) Anybody wants to play Blackbox or CTF?)

Hi I try start my Outbreak but I have this message



*************** EXCEPTION CAUGHT ! ********************
ExceptionMessage = Error occured while Direct3D objects initialization.

Pl:
:ease set video configuration properly.

InitD3D -> [Not enought videomemor:
:y for at least 1 texture of each type]


DDRVAl =

Download dgVoodoo 2 wrapper. Unpack it then copy all 3 files from MS folder to Outbreak root folder. Then run the game.

tl;dr If you're running this game on a system with multiple graphics cards (like a laptop) be sure to choose the dedicated one and not the integrated one.

So I've checked GAME.INI, renamed winmm.dll and added the the gvoodoo 2 wrapper files to the root folder and still get this error when launching the game:

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Error occured while Direct3D objects initialization.

Please set video configuration properly.

InitD3D -> DirectDrawCreate(lpDDGUID, lpDD, NIL)

Generic failure.

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So I went to the root folder and found Config.exe, opened it and clicked "video settings" which gave me this error:

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An error occured while enumerating direct3d devices.
Please check DirectX and videocard drivers instalation.

DDrawEnumerate ->

Generic failure.

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and in turn gave me the video settings window with blank settings. So the game was asking me set the video options properly but didn't even me options to do exactly that. After some fiddling I found out that my system was launching applications with my integrated graphics card by default (I'm running this on my laptop which has an integrated Intel and dedicated nVidia graphics card) and changed it to my dedicated graphics card (right click on Config.exe -> Run with graphics processor -> Change default graphics processor -> Global settings -> Preferred graphics processor -> High-performance NVIDIA processor). Now it works just fine!

Bit of a long read but I hope this'll help someone else having similar issues ;)

Hi, I did everything as it should be and when I run game is only a black screen

Thx, it works for me.

Wow! Thank you! I'm just posting to have this thread in my history for future reference but if I may say thank you at the same time, why not?

The game does run fine on my Windows 10 laptop with integrated graphics. I also needed to get rid of the winmm.dll.

The best way to play is to get dgVoodoo, just copied the DirectX dlls to the game source folder and ran the game config.

dgVoodoo has a setup app (program exe) that can be placed with the dlls to set up the graphics better - there will be a config file created next to the dlls and setup app. With this setup app it's possible to get hires, detailed graphics, but for me the game runs too jerky and I decided to get rid of the setup app and its config file, ran the game's config app (the forced settings app can cause crashes as well) and set everything to lowest details: 640x480 with minimum settings. The game runs fine that way, fullscreen (all details to lowest, everywhere), and looks very neat reto nostalgic. I noticed, that even in high res, the game is not that detailed, and I prefer it on lowest settings - and strangely, the game looks better that way (stuff is more 'detailed' now, though pixelated..).

I played around with the game.ini a lot, using the dgVoodoo and the game's setup app (first setup properly dgVoodoo with its setup app, then run the game's setup app, then maybe the forced app and then tweak with the game.ini file, manually). So, as said above, the game does run fairly well in high res with max details on modern hardware and Windows OS, but again, I prefer the nostalgic retro look of the game, which is really neat imo.

One final note. If there are some textures missing, like the hand and gun textures (only problem for me), just close the game and restart. At the next run, everything should show fine. Not a big deal, the game loads fast. - and if you prefer to play in high res, and these textures are missing, don't fiddle with the setups yet, first restart the game and see if they load. If not then fiddle with the setups and config.