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Directx compatibility

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Game: Empire earth
Realise:2001
Res:1280x1024
Graphics: MAX
Afected wersions of windows 10,8,7
Posible DirectX modes in game:
____________Directx7_3d____________________
FPS 10 // from game start
//From game start: graphic bugs, crashes
________DirectX7_3d_hardware_tnl____________
// from game start
FPS 75
crashes
// late game
1fps
crashes
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Microsoft says that direct x 12 is backwards compatible.
Howewer it is not and in direct x 7 mode it causes trouble.
I wish microsoft can fix few bugs here im realy big fan of old game like the others.
This game is stil played by 100-500 people everyday in multiplayer.
Game have multiple multiplayer lobies each of them usualy fan made.
Crash error mesage is useless:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: Empire Earth.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 594d0000
Fault Module Name: low-level engine.dll
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 3d7fc01b
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00006fe8
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1036
Additional Information 1: 31e8
Additional Information 2: 31e8f33cffe0acbebb639b7db8dc2e16
Additional Information 3: 4d48
Additional Information 4: 4d48efafce92abdb6c7f14a2ee9f5e9b- Edited by jokbon Friday, September 29, 2017 12:05 PM
Friday, September 29, 2017 12:03 PM
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Hi,Have you tried to run this Game in Compatibility mode on your PC?
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/15078/windows-make-older-programs-compatible
Video here for some settings to play the old game:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BLoK7fyETI
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- Edited by Kate LiMicrosoft employee Thursday, October 5, 2017 6:59 AM
- Proposed as answer by Kate LiMicrosoft employee Monday, October 9, 2017 7:02 AM
Thursday, October 5, 2017 6:59 AM -
No all of that was alredy done. It is on compatibility setings what posible alredy.Tuesday, August 21, 2018 3:27 PM
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game is playable with direct x tnl howewer it is still bad cause in multiplayer those crashes does stack and we need to rehost game like 20 of timesTuesday, August 21, 2018 3:28 PM
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Btw windows 10 is still supporting empire earth. They made the game playable but there still something to do about those crashes.Tuesday, August 21, 2018 3:30 PM