Top Gun: Hard Lock

How to Play

NoCD for the game showed a lot of false positive warnings, the file is safe to use! NoCD showed many generic warnings about suspicious/unsafe file, the usual case with "cracked" executables, here's the scan report. NoCD is safe to use, simply add the files to antivirus exceptions list.

The game with NoCD has been tested on Windows 7 64-bit and Windows 10, it works fine; the game supports widescreen. You may experience some small troubles when you play the game on modern systems, check our Guide and Notes for details

Install & play guide:

• Mount the disc image. You will need the utility for mounting disc image files, like WinCDEmu, UltraISO, Alcohol 52%/Alcohol 120% or Daemon Tools Lite. Or extract the files from ISO image with WinRAR, 7-Zip or another archiver tool
• Install the game. It is recommended to install the game not in default path but in some other, non-system folder, like C:/Games/Top Gun - Hard Lock, so you won't have troubles with NoCD or fixes
• After you installed the game - use NoCD, simply copy all files from the archive to Top Gun - Hard Lock/binary folder, agree to replace the original files
• Open the Top Gun - Hard Lock/binary folder and find TopGun.exe. Right-click on TopGun.exe -> Properties -> Compatibility - Set "Run this app in compatibility mode with Windows XP" and "Run as administrator"
• Launch the game and play. If the game doesn't work in compatibility mode with Windows XP - try to launch it in Compatibility mode with other version of Windows (Windows 7, Vista, etc.)

The game is multilingual, with English, French, German, Italian & Spanish languages. The language can be selected during the installation or in the game Options

Notes:

• If the installation doesn't start - try to launch Setup.exe in compatibility mode with old version of Windows (98, 2000 or XP)
• It is recommended to install all versions of Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable and NET Framework for the correct work of the game. Also it is recommended to install K-Lite Codec Pack for the correct work of in-game videos
• The game works on DirectX 9, so if you're using Windows 8, 8.1, 10 or 11 - you need to enable DirectPlay: Go to Control Panel, and select 'Programs'. Select 'Turn Windows features on and off', click on 'Legacy Components' and check the box 'DirectPlay'. Select OK, once the installation is done, restart your computer
• The game was protected with SecuROM DRM which doesn't work on modern systems, use NoCD to "break" the DRM protection and play without the disc. Your antivirus may trigger on NoCD because it showed many false positive warnings, but all warnings are generic, about suspicious/unsafe file, the usual case with "cracked" executables. The files are safe to use, simply add NoCD files to antivirus exceptions list. If you see the error that there's not enough space on the hard drive when you copy NoCD files - re-install the game in non-system folder, like D:/Games/Top Gun - Hard Lock, Windows Protection may block copying of files to system folders (like C:/Program Files or C:/Windows)
• If the game doesn't save the progress or settings: go to Documents/My Games directory and create Top Gun - Hard Lock folder, after that run the game as administrator. If the game still doesn't save the settings or progress, the issue could be that your system username has non-English symbols. In that case create a new system profile with English-only username, and play the game from that new profile
• The game has full controller support, it should work fine with any type of gamepads. The game was tested with Xbox One gamepad so it should work with no problem with any XInput-type gamepad, also the game should work with DirectInput-type gamepads too. If the game doesn't recognize your controller - try this method: download one of gamepad emulators, for example x360ce, launch it, configure the gamepad settings and key bindings, save the configuration file and copy that file to Top Gun - Hard Lock/binary folder, next to TopGun.exe. That method was tested with XInput-type gamepad but should work for DirectInput-type gamepads too
• If it didn't help - try one of the additional tools from PCGamingWiki guide for controllers