Rooky needs advice

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exetazo

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I started out on WC1 way back in '91 but didn't finish it have been earth bound since then.

I want to begin my my WC career again but an not sure where to start. The strory line was the most compelling aspect of WC1 for me so should i start with WC3 or WC4 or what?

Exetaxo
 
Exactly :D

I began my foray into the Wing Commander universe with WC3. Maybe because it was my first WC experience but I think WC3 has the best story, plot and characters. It really felt like I was fighting in and part of a futile war.

Of course, WC2 is right up there too....
 
Well , i think wc1 is the best to start with.It was my first wc and one of the best.

You should play wc1- Sm1- Sm2-wc2-So1-So2-wc3-wc4 and then STOP,your career ends
or you can try the Lance's career with Wcp and So (I hate it!)
 
Does WC2 play in Window95/98?

Thanks for all the replies.

I have tried WC1 on a 486/66 & even with a dos utility to slow everything down the game ran just tooooo fast.

Will i have the same problem with WC2 or will it run in Windows?

Aslo, are there any patches/updates to the games that i can download?
 
Well my friend its a big problem not having the Kilrathi Saga.

I used to had the same problem with wc2, im not specialist but i think you cant do anything it will be very fast even with the slow down utilities.........:(
 
Originally posted by TCSTigersClaw
Well , i think wc1 is the best to start with.It was my first wc and one of the best.

You should play wc1- Sm1- Sm2-wc2-So1-So2-wc3-wc4 and then STOP,your career ends
or you can try the Lance's career with Wcp and So (I hate it!)
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If you're not an experienced (or very talented) fligher, I'd skip SM1/2 the first time round. I'm playing them only just now and they're still hard as heck, even though I'm way better now than the first time I finished WC1 (which would've been the time I would normally have started playing SM1, but skipped it and SM2 as well).
 
Originally posted by Ghost

The original WC2 doesn´t work in W9X/me/xp, it only works in pure DOS
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Negative. WC2 DOES work in Win9X. Dunno about ME,2000 or XP. Only problem is to get enough base memory, which is actually not that hard.
 
Re: Does WC2 play in Window95/98?

Originally posted by exetazo
Thanks for all the replies.
I have tried WC1 on a 486/66 & even with a dos utility to slow everything down the game ran just tooooo fast.
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486/66? Moslo should work there. Did you see any slowdown at all? You might have used such a high slowdown value that moslo deactivated itself. Try a more loose setting!
Alternatively disable your cache in the BIOS-
Originally posted by exetazo

Will i have the same problem with WC2 or will it run in Windows?
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Both, WC1 and WC2 run in Windows. it is just the speed that is a problem. As for WC2: The gameplay will be fine (as it is in WC1 - SM2 BTW), but the cutscenes will be very fast.
Originally posted by exetazo

Also, are there any patches/updates to the games that i can download?
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Nothing big for Wc1. IIRC there was a patch for SO2. WC3 and upwards all got a lot of (usually unneeded) patches. Have a look at the file section of wcnews.
 
Originally posted by cff


Negative. WC2 DOES work in Win9X. Dunno about ME,2000 or XP. Only problem is to get enough base memory, which is actually not that hard.
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Likely it will not work in Win2k/XP. Some tweaking of the config.nt file will get you enough base and EMS so you might be able to start it (haven't tried it though), but even then, you'd still have no sound. Contrary to Windows 9x, the NT line uses much better user application shielding which is nice for stability/security but has the side-effect that no application can access *any* hardware directly. Any DOS interrupt calls to hardware end up at the NTVDM (virtual device manager), which does nothing with them unless it's something it's built to emulate. For example, the NTVDM does allow your video cards VESA BIOS to take over in full screen command windows, so DOS apps that use VESA will work (provided you launch them from a full screen command window, as opposed to letting it switch to full screen automatically).
In Windows XP, the NTVDM does emulate a Sound Blaster 2.0, but thanks to a design flaw in Intel's interrupt architecture this rarely ever works (so far digital effects in Wolfenstein is all I got to work, OPL synthesis I never got working).
You can still try SoundFX, a program that also simulates a SoundBlaster through the NTVDM and does a slightly better job at circumventing that problem (iirc it contains a patch that replaces a certain instruction in programs to prevent the flaw form manifesting).
 
I kinda [really] want to find a copy of WC3, cause I started [and only have] WCP. Killing cats is too fun. You cant really kill cats in WC4 from the guides on the site. If only I could find a copy...
 
Originally posted by Darth Thrakhath
I kinda [really] want to find a copy of WC3, cause I started [and only have] WCP. Killing cats is too fun. You cant really kill cats in WC4 from the guides on the site. If only I could find a copy...
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Killing Kilrathi was the worst part in the WC games. Now, shooting down humans or bugs, that rocked! :D ;)
 
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