farnsworth
Spaceman
First of all, this is about the DOS-Version of Wing Commander 3, not the Kilrathi Saga-Edition.
For those who don't like to read, I uploaded the patch here:
http://uploaded.to/?id=rvr077
Warning: Close all applications before using it! Your Computer may freeze if settings are incorrect (see below).
Info about the patch:
Well, i'll try to be brief: I wasn't completely happy with the DosBox approach described here:
https://www.wcnews.com/techsupport.shtml#wc3
Everything worked fine except for the videos beeing "stumbling" every other second as if there was a buffer problem (does everybody have that?)
The VDMSound approach (described here http://www.crius.net/zone/showthread.php?t=19757) was even worse as the game did not even start but it returned the "not enough FILES available"-error which nobody appears to have a solution for.
After some searching i found the patch on this site:
http://www.esinn.net/index.php?link=artikel&artikel_nr=100 (German)
They advise you to
- copy all contents of CD1 to a harddrive folder
- extract the patchfiles to that folder - they don't tell whether to overwrite or not
- change compatibilty of WC3W.EXE to Windows 2000 (strangely not 95 or XP)
- start WC3W.EXE and immediately switch to the Windows-Taskmanager to set WC3W.EXE's process priority from High to NORMAL (Apparently the system freezes if not doing so).
My Problem now: The videos play fine now, but the arrow keys do not work, nor does the ingame-music
Also, how do i access the WC3-setup program? Seems as if the -i parameter just starts the game normally.
For those who don't like to read, I uploaded the patch here:
http://uploaded.to/?id=rvr077
Warning: Close all applications before using it! Your Computer may freeze if settings are incorrect (see below).
Info about the patch:
Well, i'll try to be brief: I wasn't completely happy with the DosBox approach described here:
https://www.wcnews.com/techsupport.shtml#wc3
Everything worked fine except for the videos beeing "stumbling" every other second as if there was a buffer problem (does everybody have that?)
The VDMSound approach (described here http://www.crius.net/zone/showthread.php?t=19757) was even worse as the game did not even start but it returned the "not enough FILES available"-error which nobody appears to have a solution for.
After some searching i found the patch on this site:
http://www.esinn.net/index.php?link=artikel&artikel_nr=100 (German)
They advise you to
- copy all contents of CD1 to a harddrive folder
- extract the patchfiles to that folder - they don't tell whether to overwrite or not
- change compatibilty of WC3W.EXE to Windows 2000 (strangely not 95 or XP)
- start WC3W.EXE and immediately switch to the Windows-Taskmanager to set WC3W.EXE's process priority from High to NORMAL (Apparently the system freezes if not doing so).
My Problem now: The videos play fine now, but the arrow keys do not work, nor does the ingame-music
Also, how do i access the WC3-setup program? Seems as if the -i parameter just starts the game normally.
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