Warcraft 2 is entirely a DOS game. Not for Windows at all. It was released when Windows 95 was around I think. Before Windows 98 even. I don't thin it uses DirectX. It seems to use its own weird engine or something. It doesn't even use DOS4GW. Most DOS games older than WAR2 work fine for me. Most newer ones too. War2 is special for some reason. If it was a DirectX problem though, I'd have to downgrade or something, wouldn't I? I don't think I want to do that.

I looked for a possible patch for the game, but I only found one, and it was an old patch that had to do with networking, not with sound cards. I don't think people care enough about the game any longer to bother patching it, if anyone else even has this problem.

The video is "garbled" in that it displays something kind of like the game, only in super-low resolution (say, 320x240 or lower, it's hard to tell), and it displays vertical lines of "game" and pure black that kind of alternate across the monitor. The lines of video it does display are corrupt. When I move the mouse around, sometimes for a second or so I see some flickring color-changes, but it's nothing even resembling the game. Most of the game is displayed "off" the screen, if that makes sense. It's like if you took a screenshot of a sixteenth of the game screen and ran it through a scrambler and put it on my monitor.

I either get that, or I get the game displaying (almost) normally, but it only displays a little part of the game screen, 8 or 10 times in almost random places across my monitor. When I move my mouse, about half of those little sub-screens display a mouse cursor moving, and moving the mouse eventually just corrupts the whole display. I tried taking a screenshot, but Warcraft 2 refuses to be run in a Window, so I can't Printscreen or Mark-Copy the screen.

I tried Windows 95 mode with themes disabled, and tried 256 color mode and 640x480 mode too. That didn't work.

Blah. I'm going to start screwing with the .ini file.