I have zero experience with Windows 10, but if it reports a file being missing, I would look first for that file to see if it is there, or is indeed missing. That happens sometimes during installation, a file would get corrupted and not be recognized. So first see if the file exists, and then we try to figure out why the game does not see it.

If the file is not there, try a re-install. Sometimes that fixes it.

EDIT: Looking up MSS32.dll, I found that it is not a game file. It is a windows file. You might find solutions for your problems following this link or this one.

[This message has been edited by Terikel Grayhair (edited 08-02-2015 @ 05:30 AM).]

Yeah, thanks for the swift reply. I'm gonna run ccleaner, and try to find the latest DX, But yeah, I forgot to mention, the file is in both directories. It's not that it didn't install, I even tried pulling it off the CD itself to replace the one in the directory, but it was no change, so I'm leaning on it being a Windows 10 Direct X issue.

I'm on a laptop, but it runs AoC so it shouldn't be a graphic's issue my spec's are way over what I would have needed to run it in 2005-2011. It has to be software relate, and God I hope it's not malware related.

Thanx a bunch for the links though.

You are welcome, and welcome to our forums.

Thank, you for the welcome, and I'm happy to be member of the forum. I have read it for years but never had any real reason to join until this frustrating issue.

I had the games in mothballs until recently, but dug them out to take them for a spin on my new-ish HP.

It might be something to do with my ROM drive on my laptop.

It's a DVD-ROM, but the play feature only seems to engage for movie disks. Runs them like a LEDFS with no glitches.

But it's also a CD burner, so I can only see the option to erase the disk, or copy the files as if I was going to pirate it.

Can anyone tell me how to disable the writer so just the autoplay on my DVD-ROM works? I never burn anything anyway, and it seems like game makers wouldn't make disks and HP wouldn't make a drive this screwy if there wasn't a way to get it to play game disks.

But I have asked around and scanned the net. Nothing about what I need, only tips on disabling the autoplay I want to activate.

[This message has been edited by Jermius Provius (edited 08-02-2015 @ 06:43 PM).]

I do not know much about disc drives, but I do know they should never write anything to a disc without you commanding it to (and often commanding through several layers of Are you Sure?)

I wrote a possible solution to you in your email. That works for me, and should for you, unless Windows 10 is so advanced that nothing on the market can support it.

Soooo... *sighs*

I did something unapproved and ran it through a VD, and got the same issues so it is totally software related. I bypassed the RD altogether so it's not my hardware. My HP Laptop is a chomping at the bit stallion waiting in a stall to run this bad boy, compared to anything from 2006, this is like alien tech, and it installed the RTW and BI disks a second time like a monster.

It has to be Win-Ten, and a syntax level problem. I'm guessing it ate or removed the driver used by DemoShield to run the game, because both RTW:BI and MTW2 use it, DemoShields logo pops up but then blips off.

Anyone understand why?

I'm stupid.....

*cries*