Hi all,
So I decided to replay DK2, and remembered playing 1.5/1.51 as a child (I played a patched version without elite creatures, so that leaves one possibility). I gave the GOG version a spin and found the AI during campaign abysmal --which I had previously found challenging--, and lo and behold, turns out it was due to version 1.7 changing the way the AI behaves.
Thus I set myself on the task of re-installing good old 1.51, but I've run into the issue of the game not running at all! I run the DKII.exe, the hourglass spins for a few miliseconds, and that's it. It doesn't load up anything...
I have Windows 10, the dgVoodoo2 wrapper, a Ryzen processor (which is the only component shown as 'not meeting requirements' in the game's compatibility diagnostic), and have also tried setting a myriad of compatibility options (Windows 95/98/XP SP1,2,3)... to no avail.
Thus I decided to register in these here forums to ask the experts themselves. Do you have any idea what could be causing this problem, and possible ways to fix it?