Hm...Even more vexing that all the torrents out there are all Titanium versions, too, so no recourse =/
Anyhow, I killed those switches, and I can get into base MW2 GUI now, but whenever I launch a mission, it instantly goes back to the GUI saying mission failed (this is probably an issue with the ATI Rage 3D stuff, even though I have a blasted ATI board...Of course, my new HD 3870 on my Vista box can't run X-Wing Alliance, MW3, or any variant of MW4...MW4 will run if I drop back to XP, but it runs just fine on my old X1950 Pro box, so I keep the new PC dedicated to new gaming, and the old PC is used for vintage games, and/or re-development of said games in the case of XWA)....
Tried GBL without switches, and this is something that I just can't figure:
Titanium, Pentium, whatever, whenever I run GBL through the MW2Hook (which is the only way the game even runs period), it boots the intro video into a window, not full-screen...Then when I try to click the game through to the GUI, or go into the game options, the game locks up and I have to close it...Again, this is all windows versions...
I'm trying Mercs now.... .....Odd how even with SATA drives (HDD's and DVD drives in my case), a game so old takes more than a minute to install =/(Probably this is due to differences in the compression methods available back when the discs were cut, since I can install massive new games in less than 30 seconds in some cases...Like as much that the new game DVD's have much faster compression) . .... ... . . ...
Well, Mercs booted into the same window as GBL does (640x480 is the highest res...I seem to recall it being higher back when I actually owned these games over 14 years ago
)...GUI works good, but same problem comes up when mission launches.
I could just type up a 30-minute rant full of anti-Micro$haft invective and start another war like I did in the MW3 world, but I'll just save it and try to use DOS...Let me see if I can somehow get my paws on a DOS version of MW2/GBL...
Oh, and before I take off, will Dosbox allow me to use my Force Feedback 2 with MW2 Mercs? I assume the answer is yes, because dosbox probably uses some sort of USB emulator (or just draws from the Windows control panel)?
Heh, even MW3 ain't perfect...First I have to run a hex-hacked MW3.exe for 1600x1200, then for Pirate's Moon, I'm stuck using clumsy keyboard throttle stuff since my FFB2's throttle is non-functional...=/
Man, I'm starting to regret ever upgrading...
IMO: Worse comes to worse, I'll get my paws on the damned PSOne version of the game, dumbed-down as it is...I still have my PS2 around, and it'll stay on my massive multimedia setup on my five desks until new games like Force unleashed aren't made for PS2
Damned if I'm getting a PS3 to run games that are mostly already on PC, and second to that, the fact that unless I somehow buy one of the few remaining 60GB models on the market, my entire PS1 collection will be scrap, and even some of my PS2 games will go to hell...No, thanks.
PS3 might look better, but like politicians: It's all appearances and obscuring of the facts. The PS2 version of Force Unleashed still looks pretty good (only two reasons they didn't do a PC version were because Lucasfarts has no balls, and also because they still think all PC owners have 10 year-old hardware...Yeah, and I'll just bet Kathy Steiner-Davion wasn't in on Hanse's death
...Other reason, they fired all of their internal developers four months ago now, which is *EXACTLY* what all of their loyal PC customers told them to do, ALL THE WAY BACK IN 1998, THANK YOU! stupid idiots...That's what they get for ignoring everyone who said making games like Super Bombad Racing was under the 'really uber-bad-things' category...)
Ah, sorry, way off topic..=/
Even after all I've known since I started on PC's about 19 years ago now, I still got corrupted into upgrading my PC when it wasn't genuinely needed, seeing as I have such a loathing for arcade shooter games such as are controlling all of PC gaming today...I should have just stuck with the well-proven games and the well-proven hardware to drive them, but somehow, I managed to convince myself to do it. Pisses me off worse than Vlad Ward getting to cart that little tyrant to his den without first letting Phelan work his magic before she left...Endgame was a suckage novel compared to the rest...Everyone just dies and the real bad people just get to walk away from everything without being punished for anything they did...Yeah, real good story there, Loren...
Gah, now I have to find a way to cobble up a vintage PC...This fun stuff never seems to end...
Hm, if I can find some extra time, I may drop into IRC, maybe we can DCC me a DOS version or something?
Last note: Yes, Mercs runs fine on dosbox...Still really pissed about GBL, but considering that I started with the Craptanium version, 1 out of 3 ain't that bad...I even get higher resolution than Windoze gives me...Now, let's see who I can bully for DOS editions of MW2 and especially GBL...
