Wing Commander 3, Kilrathi Saga version- constant freezing issues

[Falcon1]

I just installed Kilrathi Saga, and am trying to play through Wing Commander 3. Everything appeared to be going well until it froze during my first pilots briefing, then froze later while the Hellcat went through its startup routine, then again after I had finished the last patrol and was docking in the Victory.

I am running Windows Vista, and have tried alternately to run WC 3 in compatibility mode for Windows 95 & 98, but neither seems to have solved the problem.

Any advice you might have would be awesome, thanks.

 

[FekLeyrTarg]

Have you tried any of the fixes, yet?

 

[Falcon1]

Nope, anyone got a link?

 

[AD]

Nope, anyone got a link?

I would give sol hsa's ddhack fix for Kilrathi Saga a shot: http://sol.gfxile.net/zip/ddhack10.zip

 

[Falcon1]

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

 

[Falcon1]

Installed it. Didn't work at first. Worked out how to use the ddhack.cfg file, switched to plain bilinear. It works but its very slow and prone to stuttering now. I must seem rather hopeless but if anyone's got any more tips on what may be the problem or solution I'd appreciate it. Anyways, thanks for your patience so far.

 

[ChrisReid]

Try disabling double buffering:

Command-Line Parameters for Wing Commander 3 for Windows 95.
If you are experiencing performance problems or other technical difficulties with Wing Commander 3 for Windows 95, you may want to try using one or more of the available "Command-line" parameters for running the game. Since the game normally runs like any Windows 95 program, you will have to open an MS-DOS Prompt within Windows 95 to execute the command-line parameters. Click on START, on PROGRAMS and then on MS-DOS PROMPT. Change to the Wing Commander 3 directory on your hard drive (by typing CD\PROGRA~1\KILRAT~1\WC3). Type "WC3W " followed by one of the following switches:

Command-Line parameters:
-D This forces the hardware "double-buffering" to turn off. Can be helpful with video-related problems.
-NO_INTERLACE This disables the scanline "skipping" in the Wing Commander 3 movies.
-NO_SOUND Use this to disable Wing Commander 3's use of DirectSound.
-DEAD_ZONE= When you put a number between 0 and 3 after this switch, the joystick "dead zone" will be affected. Use "WC3W -DEAD_ZONE=1" to set up the joystick sensitivity to 'precise.' Use "WC3W -DEAD_ZONE=3" to widen the dead zone.