KA-52 Team Alligator: Taking another bite

Dec 26, 2025
2 min read

Updated: Dec 28, 2025

In a previous guide, KA-52 Team Alligator: Running in Windows 10, the game could be run within Win10. However it ran ok but it didn't run well. This guide will try different techniques to try and improve the Win10 compatibility.

Strategy

The strategy for improving Win10 compatibility will involve the use of:

dgVoodoo2 to improve graphics.
DSOAL (DirectSound via OpenAL) to improve sound.
NVIDIA Control Panel to limit frame rates which may help improve sound.

This strategy will continue to use the Team Alligator install with the the joystick deadzone patch (which includes the ZeroG improved flight model). The process for installing and patching is described in KA-52 Team Alligator: Running in Windows 10.

OTVDM alternate patching strategy

The previous strategy suggested the use of a PCem Win98 VM to create the patched team2.exe file, as the patch used a 16-bit installer.

Although untested, an easier patching method could be to use OTVDM, (also known as WineVDM), a port of the Wine project that allows you to run old 16-bit Windows applications on modern 64-bit Windows operating systems.

The latest version of OTVDM/WineVDM is v0.9.0 available from the WineVDM GitHub, found in Releases. As it is distributed as a zip file, installation only requires extracting the files to a suitable folder of your choosing. The patch installer can then be run with OTVDM.

dgVoodoo2

This uses the latest version of dgVoodoo2, v2.86.4 available from the dgVoodoo GitHub Releases. The settings are shown below:

The dgVoodoo2 configuration file is contained within the zip archive:

Note: You may need to adjust the DirectX Resolution for your hardware.

The following dgVoodoo2 files are copied into the Team Alligator installation folder:

dgVoodooCpl.exe
dgVoodoo.conf
\MS\x86\D3D8.dll
\MS\x86\D3D9.dll
\MS\x86\D3DImm.dll
\MS\x86\DDraw.dll

Note: the file paths are not copied into the Team Alligator installation folder, just the files themselves.

DSOAL

DSOAL (DirectSound via OpenAL) is used to improve sound, removing crackling and reducing/improving (but not eliminating) speech clipping. The latest version is used, DSOAL r691 + OpenAL Soft r10325, available from DSOAL GitHub Releases.

The following files should be extracted from the zip/7z archive:

\DSOAL_r691\DSOAL\Win32\dsoal-aldrv.dll
\DSOAL_r691\DSOAL\Win32\dsound.dll

Note: the file paths are not copied into the Team Alligator installation folder, just the files themselves.

NVIDIA Control Panel (optional)

This is listed as optional as the sound improvements resulting from limiting the frame rate to 30fps is subjective at best. It is left to personal preference to implement this compatibility improvement.

The Team Alligator is configured in the NVIDIA Control Panel with the frame rate limited to 30fps as shown in the screenshot below:

Running (optional)

This is another subjective sound improvement left to personal preference. In the Team Alligator launcher app, under Setup Sound, hardware acceleration is NOT disabled as shown in the screenshots below: