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Troubles, indeed. More like inoperation. I'm running 98SE, and my joystick is a plain-jane CH Flightstick that uses the soundcard's gameport I've had since I bought the Kilrathi Saga back in '96. I have of course moved on in computers since 1996, and these days the joystick just doesn't want to work correctly with the Kilrathi Saga. In Wing 1 and Wing 2 I get no joystick response at all. In Wing 3, the joystick will work for anywhere from 30 seconds to 5 minutes before I have to go the options menu and recalibrate it, which wakes it up from its previous state of unresponsiveness, which it can go into at any time. Wing 1 isn't a huge problem, since the keyboard control is pretty good there, and Wing 3 isn't so much of a problem since the joystick actually *does* work, albeit intermittently. (I've become quite adept at hitting Alt-O for the options menu in a hurry) Wing 2 is a real pain with the keyboard though, since two buttons at a time is not possible, and I can only play it by giving myself the ignominious handle of CHEATER.
The problem is not the joystick, because it works like a champ in Wing 4, Prophecy, Privateer through MyJemm, and even Academy through W98SE. I've tried uninstalling my DirectX 8.1 and letting Kilrathi Saga install its DirectX 2, only to find out that my computer wouldn't even boot properly after that one. Does anyone have any ideas? Perhaps a better DirectX uninstaller is needed? Logically DirectX is still the most likely culprit in my mind.
On a sidenote, great website, great forums. (fora?) I never stopped playing Wing Commander in its various forms, and I am pleased to find a vibrant community still playing Wing Commander, though I am horrifically shocked at what the Kilrathi Saga goes for on eBay.
On a second sidenote in an already overlong post: I just picked up WC:Academy the other day for two dollars, and was pleasantly surprised to have it run straight through 98 in a good speed. It appears to pretty much be WC2. How is it that Origin made such a bad (slow, buggy) port of WC2 for the Kilrathi Saga?
The problem is not the joystick, because it works like a champ in Wing 4, Prophecy, Privateer through MyJemm, and even Academy through W98SE. I've tried uninstalling my DirectX 8.1 and letting Kilrathi Saga install its DirectX 2, only to find out that my computer wouldn't even boot properly after that one. Does anyone have any ideas? Perhaps a better DirectX uninstaller is needed? Logically DirectX is still the most likely culprit in my mind.
On a sidenote, great website, great forums. (fora?) I never stopped playing Wing Commander in its various forms, and I am pleased to find a vibrant community still playing Wing Commander, though I am horrifically shocked at what the Kilrathi Saga goes for on eBay.
On a second sidenote in an already overlong post: I just picked up WC:Academy the other day for two dollars, and was pleasantly surprised to have it run straight through 98 in a good speed. It appears to pretty much be WC2. How is it that Origin made such a bad (slow, buggy) port of WC2 for the Kilrathi Saga?
