However, as Win 10 isn't letting me play this game smoothly (gamebreaking frequent crashes despite win 8 fixes), I'll probably not get around to actually seeing him for quite a while.

Considering going back to Win 7 but I didn't bring my Win 7 install disk when I moved back to Canada, and many of the things that weren't working right away (sound, webcam, etc.) are working now, so JA2 alone is probably not going to be enough reason for me to get my hands on an install disc, etc.

But who knows, maybe the win 10 issues resolve themselves with JA2 as well, and then I'll have this dude!

Julian

Julix wrote on Sun, 06 December 2015 12:46

However, as Win 10 isn't letting me play this game smoothly (gamebreaking frequent crashes despite win 8 fixes)

Try registry fix, restore original DLLs, disable intro in ja2.ini.

That's what I meant by win8 fixes. Intro needed to be disabled to even get into the game... I added .DLL files out of that folder, is that what you mean by "restore originals? -- I did the registry thing that's in the documents folder called "Windows Compatibility Fixes" - though I'm not consistently setting the affinity to only 1 CPU core. Didn't manage to get the shortcut to work.