Distant World: Universe Version not launching Feb 2022

Distant Worlds is a vast, pausable real-time, 4X space strategy game which models a "living galaxy" with incredible options for replayability and customizability. Experience the full depth and detail of large turn-based strategy games, but with the simplicity and ease of real-time, and on the scale of a massively-multiplayer online game. Now greatly enhanced with the new Universe release, which includes all four previous releases as well as the new Universe expansion!

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Gaimkore
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Distant World: Universe Version not launching Feb 2022

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I got Win 10 on 64bit and the game is not launching?
Siddham
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I dont use W10 but I know there are many players who do....so there are solutions
You may need Windows Media Player & DX9
Use google..... also do a search on the Steam forum.... I know there are threads that contain W10 solutions
Hope you will be able to figure it out
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Ditto
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Iirc on older games like this you have to install the dx9 binaries since win10 doesn't come with them automatically.
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Reg
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Spot On SirHorace

I got the game to work with Win10 by downloading the Microsoft DirectX End-User Runtimes (June 2010)

https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/downloa ... px?id=8109

Unzip to some convenient temporary folder and run DXSETUP.exe

Thanks for the heads up. :D :D
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Re: Distant World: Universe Version not launching Feb 2022

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Hello,
I changed "playmovie 1 to playmovie 0" in Startup.ini, which is located in the game installation folder.
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