Wc Uk Game Us Cpu?

[Raptor leader]

I'm not sure this is the right place for this but here it goes.

I saw a WC game on ebay i wanna buy but its UK and I wanna know will a UK Game play on a US Computer?

 

[TC]

Assuming you don't go and buy a Macintosh or Playstation version of the game or something stupid like that, yes it will work on a computer in the US. There's no difference between a Wintel box in the states and a Wintel box somewhere else.

 

[Raptor leader]

It's Prophecy Gold so I hope it does.I wanna play all the Secret Ops missions.So BAD!

 

[Ghost]

Well, i have Ventanas XP, and some games refuses to play with her.

 

[TC]

That's more because XP hates you than anything.

 

[Raptor leader]

So a UK verision of WC Prophecy Gold will work on a American P166 IBM w/Win98 should work,right?

 

[Wedge009]

Wow.

If it works on a PC, there shouldn't be that much in the way of compatibility/regional issues. I thought this sort of discussion would pop up with things like consoles (y'know, PAL, SECAM, NTSC, etc).

 

[T8H3X11]

Originally posted by Raptor leader
So a UK verision of WC Prophecy Gold will work on a American P166 IBM w/Win98 should work,right?

Yes sir it will, it's not like a DVD player that can only play Region 1 DVD's or Region 2 DVD player that can only playback Region 2 DVDs.

 

[cff]

Originally posted by T8H3X11
Yes sir it will, it's not like a DVD player that can only play Region 1 DVD's or Region 2 DVD player that can only playback Region 2 DVDs.

So crack your hardware! <g>

PS: PC games, even on DVD cannot be region protected (their cutscenes might I suppose if they use MPEG2 encoding). Unless someone finds a trick like with the copy protection of audio CDs...

 

[Raptor leader]

I have another question.What lanuage does the UK use? Speak and Text.

 

[Bandit LOAF]

Hmm, good question, what language do they speak in England, anyway? I think Japanese.

(English, they speak English in the UK.)

 

[Flowden]

Hi, just loosing my forum-virginity with this message

The difference between a PC owned in the US and one owned in Europe is that small (most often) red switch at the back of the computer where it says at one end 110V and on the other 220V. If you live in the US you better make sure it is set to 110V so you won't fry your computer. Then when you bring your computer to Europe you flip that switch to 220V. The internal voltages and frequencies are always the same!

The only difference between US and EU releases are:
Box art, manual revisions and game versions.
I.e. the game gets released first in Europe so it is version 1.0
US gets it 2 months later so they get version 1.1
Only difference is that Europeans have to download a patch.

I've bought PC games on both sides of the Atlantic: US, Canada, Germany and Sweden.

There has only been 2 games released in Europe that didn't work on computers which didn't have an english language version of Windows and Keyboard (i.e. UK or US releases). Those two games were Heavy Gear 2 and Interstate '82. Most keys on the keyboard didn't work on my swedish Windows '95 and keyboard, until that is, Direct X 8.0 was released which standardised the language system and put it all together in a nice good ol' package

So don't worry, just bid on that WCP and enjoy!!!

Now if you said you were buying a chinese version, then I don't know how it all would work out, but even if everything worked ok, the language barrier might be a thing that could ruin the story The keyboard layout might also pose a problem

BTW: In England (and Australia) they speak British English. In the USA people speak American English. If you're thinking of what the differences are except for the accents/dialects well here are som examples:
color-colour meter-metre, small differences as you can see

Sincerely
Mike

 

[Delance]

Originally posted by Flowden
Hi, just loosing my forum-virginity with this message
Sincerely
Mike

In tomorrow's sensationalist tabloid:

"MAN LOSES VIRGINITY OVER THE INTERNET"

 

[T8H3X11]

What's this world coming to? Soon, there will be computers with a hole in it that says "Insert Here".

 

[Wedge009]

Originally posted by Flowden
BTW: In England (and Australia) they speak British English. In the USA people speak American English.

That's just so wrong. North Americans speak American. Britain, Australia, etc speak English.

 

[cff]

Originally posted by Wedge009
That's just so wrong. North Americans speak American. Britain, Australia, etc speak English.

Here (Austria) we also call it American English or British English.

 

[Preacher]

Originally posted by Raptor leader
I have another question.What lanuage does the UK use? Speak and Text.

Um, isn't it Hindi?...or perhaps Farsi? Arabic?.... No wait; I'm thinking of France. Never mind.

 

[BadNacho]

In France they speak freedom.

 

[TCSTigersClaw]

........What happened to all you guys.....

 

[TC]

6) Talking about other subjects in General WC Chat, even other space combat games, that are not directly related to WC is not the best idea. The Off-topic Zone is provided for this purpose.

I'd just move the thread... but:

10) Please be aware of the fact that the CIC is limited in bandwidth & server space, and try to be sensible with your posts. Which is not to say that you are to be serious 100% of the time - but there are limits on "silly" posts.

Love,
TC