You Should Have Played: MechWarrior3 / Commander [Spoiler Free!]

[Edmon]

While we're all waiting (well, most of us) are waiting for the game, why spoil yourself watching other people play it, when you can still get into the MechWarrior mood by looking back at a classic with me.

https://youtu.be/Z3WnGc5YDQw

Mech Warrior 3 was the game you should have played, if you didn't, you missed out.

I hope BattleTech lives up to the same love, care and attention that went into MW3 that I described in this video.

Update Edit:
https://youtu.be/eUHEU25ZX-s

Added Mech Commander due to popular demand/discussion.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Dosbox won't help, Mechcommander & Mechcommander 2 are Windows games.

[MinenSpecht]

Originally posted by :WTF: Grendel:

Originally posted by Luravi:

how does installing Mechwarrior:2 Mercenaries fair these days on current windows platform.
what about installing mechcommander 2. Do either work well?

I couldn't get MC2 to run on Win10 after my OS updated... I haven't worked up the courage to try again due to the brief depressions I was left in. I felt like an Atlas cored MW2 installed but could not work with my PC well (super speedy?!?). I almost want to buy a toaster of a PC to install all old games on lol

I got it running. You need dgvoodoo 2.53 or higher to emulate a voodoo graphics card and get the resolutions fitting to yout screen. I am playing at 3440x1440.

First set the .exe to compatibility mode with WinXP Sp3

AND deactivate fullscreen optimization in comatibility mode.

THEN copy dgvoodoo files into the directoty an use the dgvoodoo setup.

If you consider both settings is will fire up when starting the game .exe with every resolution you set.

Deactivate hardware cursor in ingame settings as it causes graphical glitches.

This works for MC1 MC2 MCO and MCWolfman-X and MW2 upwards

If you need further help setting it up PM me. I should be online in european timezone.

[nilus]

Originally posted by The Fifth Horseman:

Dosbox won't help, Mechcommander & Mechcommander 2 are Windows games.

Yeah somehow the conversation pivoted from Mechwarrior to Mechcommander, I got confused

[Edmon]

Originally posted by nilus:

Originally posted by The Fifth Horseman:

Dosbox won't help, Mechcommander & Mechcommander 2 are Windows games.

Yeah somehow the conversation pivoted from Mechwarrior to Mechcommander, I got confused

I would love to play the Mech Commander games again. I have them both, but I have been unable to get either working on Windows 7. Believe me, I have tried.

Any tips on this would be loved by me.

[Sticky Wicket]

Originally posted by Edmon:

Originally posted by nilus:

Yeah somehow the conversation pivoted from Mechwarrior to Mechcommander, I got confused

I would love to play the Mech Commander games again. I have them both, but I have been unable to get either working on Windows 7. Believe me, I have tried.

Any tips on this would be loved by me.

Sagit84 posted this about a month ago:

https://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=93282.0

I haven't tried it out yet because it looks like it still needs a lot of tweaking with things after downloading it, which has put me off trying.

If you manage to get it running...I'd be interested.

[Edmon]

Originally posted by Shion:

Originally posted by Edmon:

While we're all waiting (well, most of us) are waiting for the game, why spoil yourself watching other people play it, when you can still get into the MechWarrior mood by looking back at a classic with me.

https://youtu.be/Z3WnGc5YDQw

Mech Warrior 3 was the game you should have played, if you didn't, you missed out.

I hope BattleTech lives up to the same love, care and attention that went into MW3 that I described in this video.

Don't you mean MechCommander?

Nope?

Though we are talking about that now... lol

[The Fifth Horseman]

Originally posted by Edmon:

I would love to play the Mech Commander games again. I have them both, but I have been unable to get either working on Windows 7. Believe me, I have tried.

You can achieve that by using a virtual machine - VirtualBox etc - with Windows 98 installed on it. That's the long and short of it.

Originally posted by Edmon:

Originally posted by Shion:

Don't you mean MechCommander?

Nope?
Though we are talking about that now... lol

To be fair, gameplay-wise this game has more in common with Mechcommander than Mechwarrior.

[Kel'Ithra]

Mechcommander 1 runs without doing anything on windows 10 aside from changing compatibility mode. You just can't run it from the cd itself.

It's mech commander 2 that requires all the fixing and side so on to get running. Unless your running the Omnitech modded version of mechcommander 2 for some reason. That ones easier to get running on a windows 10 system.

But last time I tried mechcommander 1 on windows 10 I didn't need a virtual pc to run it, just ran it from the hard drive and threw the cd away so to speak byt transfering all the cd files to where it was installed.

And Mech 3 works fine just that resolution bug with the targeting triangle causes it to instant crash constantly happens.

[Edmon]

Originally posted by IceTitan:

Mechcommander 1 runs without doing anything on windows 10 aside from changing compatibility mode. You just can't run it from the cd itself.

It's mech commander 2 that requires all the fixing and side so on to get running. Unless your running the Omnitech modded version of mechcommander 2 for some reason. That ones easier to get running on a windows 10 system.

But last time I tried mechcommander 1 on windows 10 I didn't need a virtual pc to run it, just ran it from the hard drive and threw the cd away so to speak byt transfering all the cd files to where it was installed.

And Mech 3 works fine just that resolution bug with the targeting triangle causes it to instant crash constantly happens.

You can prevent the crash in MW3 by changing your desktop resolution and your game resolution to match (800x600 would be acceptable). This is how I got it to work.

[Sticky Wicket]

Originally posted by IceTitan:

Mechcommander 1 runs without doing anything on windows 10 aside from changing compatibility mode. You just can't run it from the cd itself

If you can run MC1 on windows 10 then you are very fortunate. I can't even get my computer to install it, let alone run it; I get an error about it not being compatible with 64 bit, and refuses to do anything else.

[Kel'Ithra]

You gotta drag all the cd files to the hard drive and install it from there. My windows is x64 and I was able to run.... I'll see if its changed... maybe a windows 10 updated fudged it.

[Sticky Wicket]

Originally posted by c0dex Unleashed3k:

Port Arthur

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MQPWE_M_EM

...one of the all-time greatest games =)

Awesome. That intro Port Arthur Vid still gives me goosebumps.

I must have played MC1 and MW3 100's of times over.....great times :)

[Sticky Wicket]

Originally posted by c0dex Unleashed3k:

Originally posted by Just Like Heaven:

If you can run MC1 on windows 10 then you are very fortunate. I can't even get my computer to install it, let alone run it; I get an error about it not being compatible with 64 bit, and refuses to do anything else.

you can download mechcommander 1 gold somewhere and it is compatible to 64, I try to find it, but google is your friend, resolving issues, if you already have the game.

Not sure if this is what you are referring to...? something called darkest hours... https://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=93282.0 (which I posted earlier to Edmon)

It seems you still have to do a lot of messing around with files and tbh the instructions on what you are actually supposed to do seems a bit confusing.

[Coyote]

I wanted to play 3... At the time i was very poor and couldnt afford it.
And now i tried to emulate it and it does not work correctly.. Tanks and mechs go flying into the atmosphere and the physics dont work if unless your using a certain computer.... WEIRD!

[Edmon]

Originally posted by fireborn:

I wanted to play 3... At the time i was very poor and couldnt afford it.
And now i tried to emulate it and it does not work correctly.. Tanks and mechs go flying into the atmosphere and the physics dont work if unless your using a certain computer.... WEIRD!

This is a very annoying bug, but you might be able to resolve it. Change your desktop resolution to match the resolution of the game and it -should- resolve it. I only found this out after I made the video...