Possible Bugs with WC3 under VM

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CodeRoyal

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Hi,

I am wondering if anyone has experienced the same problems that I have.

It appears that if you run Wing Commander 3 under a Virtual Machine (I used Microsoft Virtual PC), there are some problems.

The game itself runs great! The video is perfect, and besides the problems listed below, I haven't had any issues.

Unfortunately, for me though.. I wasn't able to progress through the game because of the errors below:

1. Afterburners don't seem to work if I press the TAB key. I wasn't able to destroy the missiles before hitting the planet (I know that isn't mandatory for the storyline)

2. When I chose to go after Flint, and then landed back onto the Victory.. the wrong video sequence played, showing Cobra saving her.. That sequence was ONLY supposed to play if I chose NOT to go after her!!

3. On The Blackmane 2 mission, after I sucessfully escort the ship out of the system (the one where the transport is set to be destroyed once you approach it) I get word from the Victory that we are finally going after the Kilrathi.. and am cleared to land..

BUT, once I land.. the computer asks for CD 4 (skipping 3 altogether!!!) and I am stuck with the two non-beatable missions to save earth.

I've tried ejecting ship, failing the mission... nothing works.. I go right to CD 4. Even the timeline map on this website doesn't show that as a possibility. Maybe the game doesn't correctly reference the right CD.. I think it was supposed to ask for cd 3 instead of 4.

4. VERY OFTEN... when you are on missions which you must escort transports to a jump point. They NEVER jump! You can literally fly around for an hour when you arrive, but the transports just keep moving away from the jump bouy... My only choice to progress is to eject.

5. The game doesn't always detect the CD in the drive when it asks you to insert CD so..and..so. Trying a few times will eventually work.

I hope someone else has seen these issues and knows what I'm talking about. Does anyone have any advice as to what I can do to progress? Savegame editor maybe?

Just as a note.. these errors happen with the Original WC3.. not the KS.

Thanks!!
Alan
 
2. When I chose to go after Flint, and then landed back onto the Victory.. the wrong video sequence played, showing Cobra saving her.. That sequence was ONLY supposed to play if I chose NOT to go after her!!
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That's because you landed on the Victory - the 'Flint' segment is a continuation of the "destroy the missiles" mission. Stay in space. If you land without saving her, it plays a video explaining that Cobra did instead.
 
Hi!

Thanks for your quick response!

Sorry.. I wasn't clear about that. I actually didn't land on the ship. I chose to go after her, and then got the new coordinates from the Victory. I went to two nav point, each one with a capital ship with fighters. I found Flint at the second NAV point and helped her clear the area of enemies.

Then, hit autopilot and landed. Still got the wrong video sequence.

Take care!! >:)

Alan
 
CodeRoyal said:
3. On The Blackmane 2 mission, after I sucessfully escort the ship out of the system (the one where the transport is set to be destroyed once you approach it) I get word from the Victory that we are finally going after the Kilrathi.. and am cleared to land..

BUT, once I land.. the computer asks for CD 4 (skipping 3 altogether!!!) and I am stuck with the two non-beatable missions to save earth.

I've tried ejecting ship, failing the mission... nothing works.. I go right to CD 4. Even the timeline map on this website doesn't show that as a possibility. Maybe the game doesn't correctly reference the right CD.. I think it was supposed to ask for cd 3 instead of 4.

4. VERY OFTEN... when you are on missions which you must escort transports to a jump point. They NEVER jump! You can literally fly around for an hour when you arrive, but the transports just keep moving away from the jump bouy... My only choice to progress is to eject.

Thanks!!
Alan
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About Blackmane 2...I'm unfamiliar w/ the losing path. If it's the winning path, you cannot go to Proxima, leaving an interesting problem if that's what you did. I don't have my old Wing3 guide handy (showed me that I can kill an Asteroid base (Delius)), but it may hold some insight for the BLK\L missions. About the Transports, did you fly close enough to confirm your Confed ID? You need to fly close to the transports in order to confirm your ID as Confed and link your autopilot to that of the transports.
 
Hi. Good question!

Yes, I did fly close enough. At the starting point of the mission, I had to fly close to them to get the Confed ID. That works fine. I later escorted them to the jump point, but even if I fly all around the transports, they never jumped!

This didn't happen every time for me though. The first few escort missions I flew, with one ship I believe, they jumped.

The first mission with three transports, only one jumped after 10 minutes or so.

From then on, any missions with transports, none of them ever jumped.

It appears to be obvious that these errors must be related to the Virtual Desktop software such as VMWare, as no one seems to have ever had these problems otherwise...

Thanks for the message,
Alan
 
Well, since I can't really play the game, I took a shot at getting the WC Movie Player. I thought I'd play the videos at least! :-P

So it sounds like I'm kinda out of luck for now? Can a savegame editor take my save up to the next mission?

Thanks!!
Alan
 
You might want to try another Win Emulater...also what kind of machine are you running on?
 
I thought i'd just post here instead of regurgitating a topic, as i've got the same problems with VDMS from recently trying to run WC3, standard rather than KS.

I have noticed that the emulation does tend to mess things, when certain triggers are accidentally missed for whatever reason. Just restart and try again.

For the Tab = no afterburn problem, this may be down to having Mouse as control set, as you have no afterburn toggle but right click and hold is your afterburn but becuase its also your roll button you can't move whil afterburning.
 
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