modern pc playing this game

[eqalidan]

am i able to play in a window?
will it run without making windows throw a fit?

[KittyKittyBang]

No way to make it run in a window. (Unless your happy to play around with a virtual windows in a window.) :)

..if you take a look through the config files you'll find a windowed setting, but that merely draws the game-screen, borderless, at the top-left of the screen. And you still have to alt-tab out of it, as if it was full-screen. I tried it, but couldn't stand it, and went back to the normal full screen mode.

Other than that, it does work pretty well on a modern PC. Doesn't have any real good support for wide-screen, but it runs nice and stably, and the nasty securom protection of the CD version is now gone.

[Starbug]

Which one to start with. Two came in the gold edition. Sentinels is standalone and better played after the original? Or jump into that first?

[KittyKittyBang]

The first one is good to start with. Sentinels takes all the concepts of the first, but puts you in bigger maps in some harder situations, and gives you extra problems to worry about, such as money, weapon degredation, and having limited crew at first.

And also, one or two of the situations that the sequel puts you into are very hard. I think it's useful to have the experience of the first before you try the second. The first game will give you less times where you'll think "that's just not fair!" :)

edit: nonetheless, the authors tend to do a mission or two in each game that appears to be darned near impossible. If that happens, feel free to fail the mission and move on (you don't have to complete every mission to win), or look online for the silent storm walkthroughs to get a hint on how to get through the mission.