WC III Game Problem (KS Version)

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Tiger_Claw

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Hello, as u can see, I am a new member, and a good fan of WC4. I recently borrowed Kilrathi Saga from a m8 of mine, and I tried to run WC3 on my XP. It works, but there are a few problems. Whenever I try to run the simulator or fly a mission, the game exits abruptly. Is there any way to fix this aggrevating problem as I would like to play this excellent game? :) Any help would be appreciated.
 
Aside from making sure you have set the compatabilty mode of all the executables to win95/98 there are a number of bugs present in the KS version. However it seems that it is doing it when it loads the spaceflight engine. Possibly check your sound card settings. It's having trouble probably loading some kind of driver for the spaceflight.
 
Thx, the thing bout the bugs also explains why the cutscenes stutter, and sometimes crash the game. I'll check bout the sound card.
 
Tiger_Claw said:
Thx, the thing bout the bugs also explains why the cutscenes stutter, and sometimes crash the game. I'll check bout the sound card.
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If you turned of sound card hardware acceleration to fix the prophecy/so problem turn it back up.
 
Prophecy? The stuttering is WC3, and wht exactly did u say I need to fix the gameflight for it, cuz u said something about sound card settings. I can't get any options, the whole way to find options is different.
 
Tiger_Claw said:
Prophecy? The stuttering is WC3, and wht exactly did u say I need to fix the gameflight for it, cuz u said something about sound card settings. I can't get any options, the whole way to find options is different.
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Yeah. If you turned it off for prophecy, try turning it back on (in windows since you are talking about Kilrathi Saga version right?) Go to control panel, then sound and audiodevices properties. Click the audio tab, then advanced, then the performance tab. (there may be a faster way to get there too).

The other thing you must do if you havent is to find the excutable for the game, right click on it, then click properties. Click the properties tab and make sure that you set the games compatability mode to Win95/98.

If none of this helps, we need more details about any error messages and also your system specs (CPU, ram, sound card, video card, OS, etc)
 
Tiger_Claw said:
Weird, but everything fixes on its own. I reinstalled WC3, it goes ingame now. Just need to fix the video crashing...

btw, how do I set the thing to Keyboard controls? I think it is on Joystick mode

P.S. Win95/98 mode doesn't run the game AT all.

EDIT: I'll post up a screenshot of one of the problems. This is what happens:

http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/8586/errorscreen3dr.png
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Ok, inflight hit alt-o. Have you tried the playing with the sound hardware acceleration settings (up or down... just experiment) to see if that helps with the video skipping? Do you have all latest sound card and video card drivers on your PC?
 
Ok, sound hardware acceleration failed, so did changing priority, and yes, I have the latest drivers.

I guess I should post my specs.
 
The newest drivers shouldn't matter too much. Either way, your drivers are about ten years newer than the game itself. In fact, it's stuff like the difference between modern drivers and the DirectX 2.0 compatible drivers of 1996 that could be causing the conflict here.
 
Tiger_Claw said:
More problems. Take a look: http://img105.imageshack.us/img105/9748/moreproblems3du.png


Btw: My specs are:

AMD Athlon XP 2400+
Windows XP Pro SP2
Sound Blaster Live! [E000]
GeForce FX 5200 128mb
768 DDR RAM
LG 52X DVD-RW

Need anything else?
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Did you manage to solve the previous problem? Either way a *.mve is a movie file. It's having trouble reading your CD it seems. Make sure its clean and scratch free. (You possibly could try cleaning the actual cd-rom also)
 
Yeah, the message seems external to dosbox. You can troubleshoot this by copying the contents of the discs to a hard drive directory and mounting it as a -t cdrom and seeing what happens in the game.
 
No, no, no.
In order to use a drive (or directory) in DosBox you have to 'mount' it, using the mount command. This command has the option "-t cdrom" in which case a drive won't be mounted as HD (default option), but as cdrom drive. Some games verify that the CD is in a CD drive and won't install or run if they think it is a HD. So Dosbox tricks them to believe it is a CDrom when you use the option.
 
Aha! Looks like my friend was sitting on it. Anyway, I cleaned up the disc, and the problems are gone. Now I can play this classic! Thx to all who helped. :)
 
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