Unfortunately if you own the older Jagged Alliance 2 Gold pack on Steam (or the original disc version), you may hit problems running it on Windows 10. Fortunately, there are workarounds, and it's worth playing without mods at least once to learn the ropes. While a combination of Windows compatibility modes and deleting intro videos is the most direct way to get the Gold version behaving, the easiest is a fix-pack called Stracciatella. It fixes some old crashes, adds custom resolution support and even supports Linux and Mac. You can grab it here (I recommend the installer version), install it to anywhere but your Jagged Alliance 2 directory, and point its launcher to the game itself. ![]() Unless you've got a very large monitor I wouldn't recommend going above 1280 x 720. The game's interface doesn't scale up, making some fonts very hard to read. While the original Jagged Alliance 2 is a must-play, the expansions are less so. Wildfire is the most interesting of them, originally a mod aimed at veteran Jagged Alliance 2 players. Consider it to JA2 as The Master Quest is to a Zelda game. It returns to familiar maps, but with a much meaner campaign supporting larger squad sizes. Now for that good mod business I know you're here for. Jagged Alliance 2 v1.13, by "Flugente" and the Bear's Pit crew, should win an award for Most Unassuming Mod Title. Just one version number higher than the official v1.12 final patch, the name belies an astonishingly complex overhaul, almost a new game in its own right. v1.13 may share the same story beats, art and world map, but it's pretty much entirely new under the hood. Most systems have been overhauled, with more complex simulated ballistics, vast swathes of realistic weapons modelled, and more complex interactions between characters. Squads are larger, AI is smarter and there's a whole new espionage layer to the game. Grab the latest 'Single Click Installer' package from The Bear's Pit forum here. ![]() The most recent at time of writing was Revision 8673, released on March 15th. Installing it is just a matter of unpacking the ZIP file to your Jagged Alliance 2 directory, overwriting files when prompted. As the forum page says, if it's not asking you to overwrite files, you're unpacking it in the wrong place. If all went to plan, you'll see an updated menu screen, a bit like this: Once that's done, use 'INI Editor.exe' to set your video options, then run the game as normal. ![]() If something did go wrong (I had some trouble with the original Gold release, but other versions worked fine), check the Docs folder for some Windows 8+ compatibility fixes. You should probably check there anyway for some handy documentation.
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