Total Annihilation

Total Annihilation

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Game not starting [Solved]
By Ducky Style
If you have problems with your game, try this :)
Works also for other programs, but you can only LIKE the page if you have this game.
But if it fixes you problem, please consider give a price :)
   
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Intro: Windows issues for game
If you landed on this page, you maybe have windows 10 64bit, what so ever no problem!.
If ANY GAME has been working in a ealier windows we can ALWAYS make it work in a newer one, absolutly!.

Today to safe space, windows does not come full installed, when windows got installed it diddent know you wanted it to be a gamer pc (Funny that function not exist right??)
So its often just a driver, a language converter or some easy software fix, if you know where to look!
Direct play
No mather WHAT problem you windows is telling you, even with another game there is one thing you will need to activate in windows thats not pre-installed anymore. "Direct play" if it dossent tell you anything i will then tell you where to find it.
If you cant find it, you can also search for it in "Search" windows often shows the shortcut

In your language or version may not be the same, but no that different.
- Open Controlpanel
- Open "turn windows functions on or off"
- In the buttom of the list find "Direct play" and activate it, windows will get the drivers and install it like 10sec.
GPU - CPU
Some games may have problems run from your GPU graphics card, or you CPU the brain of your pc.

BUT theres often an easy fix :)

Some games runs to fast, some doessent run and so on.
If a game does not run from your cpu / cpu you can change it to run on the other.

Its named battery saving.. ?! YEA RIGHT ?!

CPU = Battery saving
GPU = POWER

So in some of your power settings you can add your game / program, and choose what to run from :)
Compatibility Mode
1. Click on the .exe file sometimes you need other files from the shortcut's folder på be this also, but then rightclick and select Properties.

2. Click the Compatibility tab

3. Check Run this program in compatibility mode for and select an appropriate option
- In the most cases old games perfer to run as Windows XP, if the game where ment to be for that
- Havent needed this for a looong time, but if it helps anyone for some of the old stuff / games, please let me know :)
Other functions
There is a lot of options for games to have issues, but if this doessent fix it, and you find another way to fix it, please let me know and i put it in :)

Works for a lot of games, there are more stuff to do for making games to work, but it its often comes down to, is it a game maked for run at GPU, the problem is often in directx solutions for a chip driver needed, where if its a CPU based game then its often an setup issue.
And its all about where to start looking :)
34 Comments
Ducky Style  [author] 25 Jan, 2024 @ 2:32pm 
some new computers ready for windows 12 cant handle the old directx due to backdoors in the software its banned
stanhenry 23 Jan, 2024 @ 9:35am 
I get an error asking me to check my DirectX setup when i try to run this. can someone give me instructions on how to fix it as the instructions seem to have been removed from this thread. Thanks
Ducky Style  [author] 23 Jan, 2022 @ 10:39pm 
Just updated it, and added some other stuff. For those still looking for an answer, if this does not help let me know and i'll add more solutions :)
jebminus 6 Sep, 2021 @ 3:32pm 
for me, its just the steam shortcut that didnt work. i opened the executable directly.
chris.mullen1960 15 Mar, 2021 @ 3:52pm 
similar problem to others here. game does not load properly. I have tried many of the solutions here, got it to work once, then it stopped again. the icon sits at the bottom of my screen
zoltarrugby222 27 Aug, 2020 @ 9:54am 
I done exactly as Daniel said and it works just fine...nothing else did
Ducky Style  [author] 23 Jun, 2020 @ 5:49am 
Thx for input Daniel :)
daniel.marshall 17 Jun, 2020 @ 3:45am 
Find the local file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Total Annihilation\TotalA.exe
right click on the file, go to properties, compatibility tab, select 'run as administrator' towards the bottom of the tab. hit ok.
this worked for me without reinstalling directX


I have created a shortcut to this on my desktop, and seems to run fine using directx12 on windows 10
'direct play' is activated
in the start menu type 'dxdiag' to find what version DirectX you have
rahimwillems 28 Mar, 2020 @ 10:24pm 
yes but still the same thing keep happening it open but when im done with the res setting and choose map after i klik for it to start the screen turn black and then kick me out
Ducky Style  [author] 28 Mar, 2020 @ 11:27am 
And you have tried all the solutions we have posted?