Win10 and CFS2 and CFS3

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simfreek

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This may be the wrong category, but I post it anyway. I've heard both good and bad things about installing and playing CFS2 and 3 on WIN 10.
I currently use Win8.1 and both games and a lot of other games and all run fine. I Have backed up every install of both games as well as other that I have. I know you can't upgrade to Win10 for
free anymore ,but I bought a Win10CD and key a while back. I just nervous about doing the upgrade because I might lose and not be able to play
either game or my other games. I really don't see a reason to upgrade. Only to purchase newer games on Steam or other games that only play on Win10 or higher. I know that they say that any games you play on Win8.1, 7, 8 will play on Win 10, but from what I have read on various post I'm not so sure.
Any insight on this or comments on this would be appreciated. Thanks.
 
Hi simfreek, this is my opinion (but who am I ??):

If you can afford still playing everything on your Win 8.1 and keep your WinX cd in stock, do so. CFS2 and 3 do play well in WinX, but a lot depends on your graphic card and the possibility to play in 32bit mode, though the ddraw.dll helps a lot.

hertzie
 
You can check out the Windows 10/11 snafu / content thread
https://sim-outhouse.org/sohforums/threads/windows-10-11-snafu-content-thread.95345/

CFS2_Win10_Win11_Install_Tutorial.

CFS2_Win10_Win11_Install_Tutorial.zip

This guide should help you make a install of CFS2 on Windows 10/11 (Win 7 and 8 as well). Applying patches/fixes. Making Mission Builder desktop icon and a list of known bugs and oddities that CFS2 has with Win 7, 8 and 10 plus latest info for...
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Know Bugs and Oddities with CFS2.

Know Bugs and Oddities with CFS2

This is list of know bugs and oddities with CFS2 that I have put into one place. This surely isn't all know know bugs and oddities but should cover most of the well know ones and give some ways that you may be able to fix them. Comes as PDF or HTM.
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Win 7+ TLDR: No CD patch is needed as Microsoft removed SafeDisc and with out SafeDisc CFS2 can't run so you have to run a patched/updated .exe. Make sure when you install CFS2 you do a full install of everything from the CDs during the install of CFS2.

Win 10 TLDR: When Win 10 came out change were done to new graphic card made for Win 10 that broke CFS2s Enable Hardware Acceleration check box so for a long time we had to manual edit the CFS2.cfg to set graphic. For the most part we now use dgVoodoo 2 installed into the main CFS2 folder that fixes the problem.

Win 11 TLDR: AMD APU/integrated graphics systems seem to works best for CFS2. No need for any add-on like dgVoodoo 2. Nvidia graphics cards seem to need the DirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer and DDrawCompat to work. Intel graphics dose NOT like CFS2. Normal Win10 fixes like DDrawCompat and DxWrapper do not help. The only known fix is dgVoodoo 2
 
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