SF2 and Windows 10

[ravenclaw_007]

i was forced to give up my windows 7  , i had no more antivirus protection and if i installed any antivirus software some of my programs including SF2 was no longer working , the antivirus software  considered them as a threat

so i´m now on windows 10 pro 64 bit , and i got a big surprise when i launched my SF2 again , the first loading time is almost twice as long as with windows 7 and terrains i had no problem with are now a nightmare the game is loading up to 80% and than i got a CTD

i´m using a I7-4790K CPU with 4x4.00 GHz , 32GB RAM and a RTX 3060 with 12GB  that was always ok and i had no problems with them why i´m no encountering this problems with windows 10 , is windows 10 a downgrade to windows 7 ???

do i need to make some changes on some settings or how can i solve this ???

 

any help is welcome

 

Edited 6 hours ago by ravenclaw_007

[GKABS]

What antivirus software? You can always add the game to the antivirus software's safe list; that way, it will ignore it and run without the antivirus software intervening.

[Sundowner]

That is very strange, all my SF2 installs have worked perfectly on Win 10 for me. I've not had to make any changes to anything.

[GKABS]

1 hour ago, ravenclaw_007 said:

so i´m now on windows 10 pro 64 bit , and i got a big surprise when i launched my SF2 again , the first loading time is almost twice as long as with windows 7 and terrains i had no problem with are now a nightmare the game is loading up to 80% and than i got a CTD

Try this:

. Set Compatibility Mode: This is often the first and most effective step.

   · Right-click on your StrikeFighters2.exe file and select Properties.

   · Go to the Compatibility tab.

   · Check "Run this program in compatibility mode for:" and select Windows 7 from the dropdown menu.

Also if that doesn't fix it try to make it use DirectX 9

You can do this by adding a command line parameter to the game's shortcut.

Here is the requested direction:

1. Locate the shortcut you use to launch Strike Fighters 2.

2. Right-click on the shortcut and select Properties.

3. In the Target field, you will see the path to the .exe file inside quotation marks (e.g., "C:\Program Files (x86)\Strike Fighters 2\StrikeFighters2.exe").

4. Click at the very end of this line, outside the final quotation mark, and add a space, followed by -dx9.

It should look like this:

"C:\YourGamePath\StrikeFighters2.exe" -dx9

Make a backup of the file before changing and i hope that will help you.

[ravenclaw_007]

12 minutes ago, GKABS said:

What antivirus software? You can always add the game to the antivirus software's safe list; that way, it will ignore it and run without the antivirus software intervening.

i try several all with the same result , stopping most of my programs from working this started about 8 weeks ago

[MigBuster]

They ran in Win 10 and now Win 11.

 

These may no longer be relvent but I still do the following: 

I still install them outside of the more protected areas like Program files and x86.

Tick Run in compatibility mode for Windows 7

Tick Disable Full screen optimisations

Tick Run this program as administrator

Am thinking Win / Xbox Game mode may need ot be turned off.

 

I see this has just been posted anyway.

 

 

 

[ravenclaw_007]

i set i t now to compatibility mode windows 7 and yes i can fly again , not in all terrains but most of them  

i would like to improve this further , so i will look in to all this suggestions of you and hopefully find a way to get it working like it was under windows 7 

 

THANK YOU

[Flanker562]

Nice you finally moved on I see. It's good that you're flying at least though but I don't have much to offer than I ran things fine, though it does take a while to load on my Win 11 machine.