Anno 1404 crashing

[patefilo]

Hello,

I bought and downloaded the GoG version of Anno 1404 (the setup exe and and the bin file).
When installing thanks to Porting Kit, the games doesn't launch. Here is the debug log:

Code:

0054:err:module:import_dll Library dnsapi.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\iphlpapi.dll") not found
0054:err:module:import_dll Library iphlpapi.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\drivers\\ndis.sys") not found
0054:err:ntoskrnl:ZwLoadDriver failed to create driver L"\\Registry\\Machine\\System\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\NDIS": c0000142
003c:fixme:service:scmdatabase_autostart_services Auto-start service L"NDIS" failed to start: 1114
00bc:fixme:exec:SHELL_execute flags ignored: 0x00000100
00d4:fixme:imm:ImeSetActiveContext (0x37aeb0, 0): stub
00d4:fixme:imm:ImmReleaseContext (0000000000010020, 000000000037AEB0): stub
00cc:fixme:imm:ImeSetActiveContext (0x370ed0, 1): stub
00cc:fixme:imm:ImmReleaseContext (0000000000020046, 0000000000370ED0): stub

What can I do?
Thank you!

[paulthetall]

Did you follow procedure as mentioned in the port description? Also we added the Anno History collection which is 64bit and more stable.

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Important Note:
Iin the setup initialization it may set the direct version to Directx10, this might crash the game on startup. When that happens, you need to Switch to DirectX mode to Directx9 in the Engine.ini. You can simply do that by Locate the Engine.ini file:

1. In porting Kit click more (after you launched the game once with black screen)
2. Open C:
3. Go to path —> users —> Wineskin —> Application data —> Ubisoft —> Anno 1404 (or addon) —> Config
4. Open the engine.ini file
5. In the config add: <DirectXVersion>9</DirectXVersion> between 2 other lines
6. After that close the text editor and play the game! This is luckily a one time action only