Please read before reviewing or buying Swat 3

[Slippery_Jim_]

There are some people giving Swat 3 a bad review because of issues with the game.

You should be aware of possible problems with the game before you buy (especially on Windows 8/10 machines). For the vast majority of people these issues can be solved with a tiny bit of effort.

Crashes to desktop:

The original Swat 3 movies were encoded with a codec that modern versions of Windows no longer support or provide. Some people will have issues with the movies as soon as they try to run the game. You may get a crash to desktop without warning or you may get a "DDERR_GENERIC" error. This is the fault of Windows not knowing how to play the movies.

A fix for the movies can be found here:
http://www.swat3lastresort.info/index.php/swat-3-video-directx-fix

Framerate issues:

Windows 8/10 in particular can have massive frame issues with Swat 3. Part of the problem is the fact that Swat 3 is an older gamer that uses 16-bit colour mode. Windows 8/10 only can emulate that mode.

Even Windows 7 has frame-rate issues with the game but from what I have seen this is caused by poor video card driver support.

A lot of people have had great success using a third party app called dgVoodoo to speed their games back up.

http://www.swat3lastresort.info/index.php/fix-framerate-problems

[♥ A l1ce ♦ ♣ アリス ♠]

well i am an OLD owner of SWAT3 EE
i never played before with updates or last resort on win7.
now i installed updates and last resort to make it run, so i notice the AIM is 100% INACCURATE
even infront of a wall standing still EVERY single shot will take inpact way under the crosshair...

it was one of my favorit sims now its just a bad joke and ppl try to sell it ofc

there was a time it was realistic now ppl add crap like blood splater/tracers action crap... omfg...
a sim dont need such bs...

[♥ A l1ce ♦ ♣ アリス ♠]

sorry for my snotty writing but if the gun use only to spray instead to be able place accurate shots when needed you would feel me.
strange thing is dosnt matter when I play it now or back it seems pretty dead -.-

[Slippery_Jim_]

Don't know why your aiming would be affected. The Last Resort mod doesn't touch anything like that. It doesn't do any tweaks to how the game plays. The game's configuration files are identical to the original.

[♥ A l1ce ♦ ♣ アリス ♠]

i always played before without any updates offline. mb something new inside the patches idk. i doubt i has something with -handsup cmd to do becaus it its already included. my guess.
creator of armed forces mentioned sierra did something new for hitdetection maybe its that what he meant. weapon mod firepower(bullpup) tavor is pretty accurate but its no solution for a 5 man career. and nothing i would like to use. thanks for your fast reply and for LR Mod and sorry again for my overreaction i guess i will get use to it.
you did a great job for swat tbh

[Slippery_Jim_]

No worries. I wasn't offended. If I recall the Armed Forces mod was created early on in Swat 3's life. I think even before the 1.7 patch which changed a lot of things about how Swat 3 worked. It was an amazing mod at the time.

Speaking about the LR mod, I have been wanting to get back working on it but real life work has been stopping me. Hopefully before Christmas I will have a new update for it.