Although the game is as the DOS version on Steam, it's possible to play the game in its original 3D accelerated Windows version with these simple steps.

You will only need to download the official 3dfx patch, a modern OpenGL wrapper for the 3dfx patch and copy a few files to run the game's hardware-accelerated Windows version.

Additionally, you need some extra fiddling to get the music to work with this version of the game.

Download and extract http://www.gamefilearchive.com/files/misc/ignition/Ignition%20Windows%20Patch%20r1.zip into the game's directory, overwriting all the files. By default it can be found at Steam/steamapps/common/Ignition/

NOTE: Some browsers will likely claim the file is dangerous due to the DgVoodoo download. You can confirm its authenticity from dgVoodoo's website[dege.freeweb.hu]. They're a known GOG.com partner and trustworthy, but due to how the files work, some browsers may flag it as harmful.

Simply run the game from Steam as normal.

See the music section on how to fix the music playback.

Download the official 3Dfx patch and extract the files to the root game directory (will not overwrite any files): http://web.archive.org/web/19981203075024/http://www.uds.se:80/ignition/ign_3dfx2.zip

You can find the game directory by opening the Properties of the game on Steam, then under the Local Files tab, press "BROWSE LOCAL FILES...". Extract the ZIP archive here.

Download the latest dgVoodoo Glide wrapper and extract the "Glide2x.dll" and "dgVoodooCpl.exe" files (from inside the 3Dfx directory) to the root game directory: http://dege.freeweb.hu/dgVoodoo2/bin/dgVoodoo2_76.zip

Only the "Glide2x.dll" and "dgVoodooCpl.exe" files are needed.

To configure the resolution, and to remove the original 3dfx logo watermark, run dgVoodooCpl.exe. You will have to figure this out on your own, but it's pretty self-explanatory.

NOTE: Some browsers will likely claim the file is dangerous due to the DgVoodoo download. You can confirm its authenticity from dgVoodoo's website[dege.freeweb.hu]. They're a known GOG.com partner and trustworthy, but due to how the files work, some browsers may flag it as harmful.

Duplicate the files "DEFAULT2.PSQ" and "TEST2.PFM" under the directory Steam/steamapps/common/Ignition/BALTAZAR/DATA and rename them as "DEFAULT.PSQ" and "TEST.PFM" respectively.

Upon launching the game, the game tries to play pre-recorded gameplay behind the main menu, the Windows version expects different demo files than the DOS version of the game. As these are not available on the Steam version by default, the game would crash.

Do not remove the two original files if you also want to be able to play the DOS version, make copies of them instead.

NOTE: Alternatively, you can mount the "game.gog" and "game.ins" files from the game root directory (they are .BIN and .CUE image files respectively), then browse under the BALTAZAR/DATA/ directory and find the original "DEFAULT.PSQ" and "TEST.PFM" files to use instead.

If you don't want to interfere with the original DOSBox version of the game, simply run the game from "Ign_3dfx.exe" and enjoy.

Otherwise, back up your original "DOSBox.exe" file, and rename "Ign_3dfx.exe" as "DOSBox.exe". This way you can run the hardware accelerated Windows version of the game directly from Steam.

Currently the CDDA music support in Ignition works by playing the audio from the CD currently in the first CD drive you have set up in Windows. At the moment it's unknown if this can be changed with a patch, but I'm still looking into it.

DOSBox's mount-commands make it easy to add music support for games running under it, but for the Windows version of Ignition, we're stuck with whatever the programmers originally intended. I tried reaching out to the lead programmer, but he couldn't remember how Ignition handled its CDDA support, so we're stuck unless someone comes up with a breakthrough.

At the moment, considering Steam's version of Ignition is identical to GOG.com's one, it comes with the original BIN/CUE CD image of the original CD. This means you can burn a copy of the CD to be played with the game.

This is obviously a bit more cumbersome than simply playing the DOS version of the game through DOSBox, I feel it's worth the effort with the additional hardware-accelerated 3D graphics.

Additionally, another method is simply mounting the BIN/CUE image with your favourite program.

Since the game only reads the first "CD drive" found by Windows, you need to make sure to change the drive letter to be the first one recognized under Windows.

Run Windows' Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc), or find the Disk Management section under Computer Management (compmgmt.sc).

Locate your mounted drive or actual CD drive with the game CD on the list at the bottom, right click on it and choose "Change Drive Letter and Paths...". Click on "Change..." and choose the first available letter (any other than A, B or C!) from the drop down menu. Click OK and Yes to accept the changes.

If you have another drive earlier than what you chose, the game will try to look for the CD audio from that particular drive. For example, if you're mounting the CD image with a program and you have an actual drive set up with an earlier drive letter, such as D: being the actual drive and F: being the mounted drive, you can just change the CD drive's letter to something after F: temporarily. Then change it back to D: after you've done playing with the game, in order not to interfere with any other programs that might have been set up to use the D: drive.

You can find the CUE/BIN files on the game's root directory as "game.ins" and "game.gog" respectively.

When I found out the game came out on GOG.com and Steam, I rushed to download it just to see they went with a simple DOSBox version instead of taking the time to add proper Windows support. Considering how much I adore the game, I had to know if the DOS version could be patched to run the Windows version instead.

Considering dgVoodoo's license, it's best if you read the detailed explanation section in its entirety.

Please let me know if you have any trouble reading the guide, or have any suggestions in making it more readable or simplified. Hopefully this will be of help to you, thanks!

- Daedolon