So I've been watching a lot of the show 24 lately, and the other day I thought, "Hey, Jack Bauer is kinda like Sam Fisher. Sort of." Anyway, I own all of the series so far, and wanted to play through them all again (remembering that #1 was ridiculously hard).

It installed (although Windows wouldn't let it install DX9), but when I try to start the game nothing happens. Nothing at all.

I've Googled and haven't found anyone else with similar probs that were solved, and I've had 2 unfruitful chats with Ubi-techs.

Any ideas? Or can anyone point me in the right direction?

dgvoodoo, maybe? http://dege.freeweb.hu/

(At least for the first Splinter Cell, perhaps, I dunno)

Try this:
https://www.gog.com/forum/splinter_cell_tom_clancys#1495065466

Sometimes useful stuff there, although I could not get my copy of Wing Commander IV to run after completing WCIII. Maybe now that I've a brand new OS (because at first it worked, and then it didn't). Video driver issues. I've enough Elite: Dangerous to last me a lifetime though, so not sure when I'll get around to trying again.

Gog doesn't even list that as Windows 10 compatible on their site. I tend to avoid pc releases for console games anyway and I think I have all the Splinter Cells on Xbox/360. Been missing 24 lately too. I think I have all the 24 stuff except for the last two not 24 episode long seasons. I even picked up the PS2 game a short time back.

I got it working. Not sure what finally got it to work, or if it was a combination of things but:

-WinXPSP3 compatibility
-Run as admin
-dgvoodoo wrappers
-DX9 distributables
-The 1.3 patch - which installs so UNintuitively (and no instructions), I never would have figured it out without finding the info on another site
-The Widescreen patch
-And a crapload of frustration and persistence.

Anyway after all that, it worked. Then I installed the hi-res textures. Looks a lot better.

Is it perfect? No, there are some odd artifacts on the side of the screen, but I figure it's a casualty of going widescreen. In-game cutscenes have strange black bars on the top and bottom of the screen, but it is still very playable and as fun as I remembered. :-)