WC2 deluxe

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JonkyB

Spaceman
How can I get Wing Commander 2 Deluxe to work in Windows? I want to play the game as it was meant to be played, with sound, music, voice, and joystick. Here's all my tech support stuff. Any help would be much appreciated.


Processor: Pentium II
Processor Speed: 300 Mhz
Amt of RAM: 64 MB
Computer Brand: Compaq
OS: Windows 98
CD-ROM: 32X
CD-R
CD-ROM
Joystick: Microsoft Sidewinder Precision Pro
Video Card: nVidia Riva TNT2
Sound Card: ESS 1869
Error Message: When attempting to run in DOS window, "005"

CONFIG.SYS:
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS /TESTMEM:OFF
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS
DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\CPQIDECD.SYS /D:IDECD001
DOS=HIGH,UMB,AUTO
FILESHIGH=80
BUFFERSHIGH=40,4
FCBSHIGH=10
SWITCHES=/F


AUTOEXEC.BAT
@ECHO OFF
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1
LH C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\DOSKEY


IF EXIST C:\PIPOST.BAT CALL C:\PIPOST.BAT
IF EXIST C:\PIPOST.BAT DEL C:\PIPOST.BAT
 
try copying all the game files to your hard drive. Then run the installs from there. Download Moslo and use it to play the game. It'll allow you to run the game in a Windows DOS box without restarting the comp. Worked for me, hope it works for you :)
 
Thanks, but that didn't work. Maybe I did it wrong. I typed in the command as it says in the manual, and it asked me if wing2 was a directory or file, and I said directory and it copied a whole bunch of files. The game told me it couldn't load Origin-FX drivers. Then I tried messing around with config.sys, and managed to enable expanded memory, but then the game tells me I dont have enough conventional memory to play. When I type in "mem" it tells me i have 63 MB of free expanded memory, but only 550 K of conventional memory. I think the game needs at least 583K, how do I get more of this?
 
Don't bother with slowdown utilities, WC2 works fine without them.

Copy the files from the CD to the HD and then remove the read-only attribute from them.

Just from a quick glance, I can't really see how to modify your system files to free up some conventional memory. Perhaps you could post the results of the "mem /c" command, or just wait for the experts to help you.
 
All the files are already not read-only. The experts have already told me I can't do anything. I want to use my joystick, so I need it to run in Windows, but Origin Tech Supp keeps saying the game won't support it no matter what. Here's the mem/c/p stuff.

Modules using memory below 1 MB:

Name Total Conventional Upper Memory
-------- ---------------- ---------------- ----------------
SYSTEM 44,608 (44K) 33,616 (33K) 10,992 (11K)
HIMEM 1,168 (1K) 1,168 (1K) 0 (0K)
EMM386 4,320 (4K) 4,320 (4K) 0 (0K)
DBLBUFF 2,976 (3K) 2,976 (3K) 0 (0K)
CPQIDECD 9,168 (9K) 9,168 (9K) 0 (0K)
WIN 3,680 (4K) 3,680 (4K) 0 (0K)
DOSKEY 4,688 (5K) 4,688 (5K) 0 (0K)
vmm32 15,248 (15K) 14,176 (14K) 1,072 (1K)
COMMAND 7,280 (7K) 7,280 (7K) 0 (0K)
IFSHLP 2,864 (3K) 0 (0K) 2,864 (3K)
Free 574,080 (561K) 574,080 (561K) 0 (0K)

Memory Summary:

Type of Memory Total Used Free
---------------- ----------- ----------- -----------
Conventional 655,360 81,280 574,080
Upper 14,928 14,928 0
Reserved 393,216 393,216 0
Extended (XMS) 15,713,712 ? 65,810,432
---------------- ----------- ----------- -----------
Total memory 16,777,216 ? 66,384,512

Total under 1 MB 670,288 96,208 574,080

Total Expanded (EMS) 66,519,040 (63M)
Free Expanded (EMS) 16,777,216 (16M)
Largest executable program size 574,064 (561K)
Largest free upper memory block 0 (0K)
MS-DOS is resident in the high memory area.
 
I think the problem there is that you don't have enough conventional memory available. You need something like... 590 kb minimum for the game to run. And that's without speech.

If you can get to pure DOS (pressing F8 before it starts up windows) then do a line-by-line confirmation and turn off the following:
DBLBUFF
DOSKEY
vmm32 (Shouldn't be on if you're in DOS)
IFSHLP 2,864

To enable your joystick, you should only need to activate your sound card's DOS drivers. If those don't enable the joystick then get a better sound card. btw... you should never need doskey. Why do you have it enabled?
 
What does DOSkey do? I have no idea. It came like that I guess. And the files i gave there were from a DOS window, not pure DOS.
 
DOSKEY is used for creating commandline aliases and maintaining a list of previously used commands to allow quick access to them.
It's unnecessary for running most things, just nice to have, and makes things easier.
 
Also, I'm using the MS Sidewinder Precision Pro joystick. Origin tells me that DOS doesn't support digital joysticks like it. If that's true I need to get the game to run in a window. It works fine in pure DOS, has music, speech, everything, but no joystick.
 
Then you'll need an analog joystick like a Logitech Wingman Attack or something. www.computers4sure.com sells Wingman Attack sticks for less that twenty dollars.

to turn off doskey, just remove references to it from the file.
 
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