Wing Commander I & II

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Hey WC Fanatics!

I was just wondering how everyone still plays WC I and WC II


If I run either game on a new computer, one little press on the arrow key and the ship goes crazy....

same with the cut scenes

is there something i can do to slow down my computer and smooth the gameplay????


Thanks.
 
Well,you can play them with no problem.If you got the Kilrathi Saga versions of Wc1 and Wc2.For the Dos Versions ,there are multiple problems.I cant make them run in my PC (P4 2.4Ghz)
 
Originally posted by KrisV
For DOS there's Moslo, which you can download from the Files section.
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On a 2Ghz+ system Moslo isn't sufficient.

For me it is still the best best (read non stuttering slowdowsn) to disable your internal and your external cache and then if it is still too fast go for slowdown utils.
 
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I still haven't been able to get WC1 or WC2 to work on my computer. It's a 300 MHz. It's not that the game runs to fast, its that it doesn't run at all. I tried making a copy of the Run MS-DOS applications that boots the computer in DOS mode. I also added a subrutine to make it start the games. For some reason, it never worked. It's been a while since I tried, so I don't remember the exact problem, but they didn't work. I think computer's these days just arent designed to be compatable with older stuff, and there's nothing we can do about it.
 
Originally posted by Needaham45
I still haven't been able to get WC1 or WC2 to work on my computer. It's a 300 MHz. It's not that the game runs to fast, its that it doesn't run at all.
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Ever tried to just run them in a DOS window?
 
No - just Run MS-DOS applications. My understanding was that in a DOS window, there isn't enough memory to run a serious application, but I will try it.
 
Originally posted by Starkey
I don´t think you´ll get enough Expanded memory in Windows.
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Expanded memory? How would that be a problem. You can use your whole built in memory plus the swap space as expanded memory. The only problem is BASE memory. Now my config.sys and autoexec.bat are basically empty files. Windows doesn't need any mousedriver, keyboard driver or cd driver in there. In fact those can lead to conflicts. The only use for realmode drivers is if you drop to dos from a Windows session (I think only 95 featured that option?).
So you 'steal' the mouse and CD driver from windows and don't even have to use up memory for them. Easily enough to get enough basemem for WC2 that way.
 
Sorry, I meant base memory. :o

I think even discarding the mouse and CD drivers, Windows eats up a lot of base memory by itself.
 
Originally posted by Starkey
Sorry, I meant base memory. :o
I think even discarding the mouse and CD drivers, Windows eats up a lot of base memory by itself.
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Well it works for me (in 95, 95C and 98SE)

Config.sys:
DEVICE=C:\SYSTEM\WIN98\setver.exe
DEVICE=C:\SYSTEM\WIN98\HIMEM.SYS
DOS=HIGH,UMB
DEVICEHIGH=C:\SYSTEM\TARGA\TARGADRV.SYS /14

(that last line could be removed, but my dumb scanner needs a real mode driver even in Windows...)

Autoexec.bat:
@ECHO OFF
PROMPT $p$g
SET PATH=C:\SYSTEM\WIN98;C:\SYSTEM\WIN98\COMMAND;C:\SYSTEM\DOS;C:\SYSTEM\BAT;C:\HILFE\HILFE;C:\WINPROG\JDK1.3.0_02\BIN
SET TMP=F:\TEMP
SET TEMP=F:\TEMP
SET SOUND=C:\SOUND\SB16
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6
SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:E MODE:0
SET SCSI_DRIVER = C:\SYSTEM\ZIP
SET SCSI_UTILITY = C:\SYSTEM\ZIP
SET MGA=C:\SYSTEM\MGA\SETUP
SET SST_SCREENREFRESH=85
SET SST_RGAMMA=1.70
SET SST_GGAMMA=1.70
SET SST_BGAMMA=1.70
SET SST_GRXCLK=57


Free memory reported by 'mem' in a DOS window: 588K (601,904 Bytes)
 
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