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[Kyle Wright]

Hey guys,
I loaded MW4 and MW4Mercs up and am having issues with the terrain being junk. Someone told me I needed to download something to make it run stable. Only reason I loaded it back up was because I wanted to experience a campaign mode again and try to see if my piloting skill has improved.

Anyone else have this issue and know how to fix it?

[Green Mamba]

Don't do it .....MW4 will Spoil You

[Alcom Isst]

MW4 and MW4 Mercs do not work on my Windows 7 desktop, but work on my Windows 8 laptop. They also don't work when I have my wireless headphones plugged in .

Kyle Wright, on 15 May 2014 - 01:16 PM, said:

Hey guys,
I loaded MW4 and MW4Mercs up and am having issues with the terrain being junk.

Are you bothered by the more than a decade old heightmap based terrain, or is there an actual bug?

[80sGlamRockSensation David Bowie]

Kyle Wright, on 15 May 2014 - 01:16 PM, said:

Hey guys,
I loaded MW4 and MW4Mercs up and am having issues with the terrain being junk. Someone told me I needed to download something to make it run stable. Only reason I loaded it back up was because I wanted to experience a campaign mode again and try to see if my piloting skill has improved.

Anyone else have this issue and know how to fix it?

If you're having texture issues, try installing the HD texture pack from MechStorm

[Xmith]

MW4 does run on W7. Check the games' graphics setting. It never ran well when setting were set to high. You have to do a trial and error to see which setting works best. After which you have to restart the game after every change. I can recall my graphics set at 800x600. Game looked bad on higher resolution.

[Kyle Wright]

It wont let me change the graphics settings and all the terrain looks super pixalated.

[Stonefalcon]

I've just setup a virtual windows 98 machine to run MW2 and MW3:PM on. Pirate's Moon is a game I could play all day long with the Annihilator and Ebon Jaguar present.

[Impyrium]

READ:

I discovered MW4 doesn't like my 64-bit Windows 7 computer when it's running full screen. Try alt-enter to enter windowed mode. I've managed to get it working on several Windows 7 computers like this.

I don't know why, when it runs on fullscreen it runs with a shocking resolution and doesn't render anything 3D properly. I'm guessing it doesn't like my graphics driver.

[moneyBURNER]

Stonefalcon, on 15 May 2014 - 04:00 PM, said:

I've just setup a virtual windows 98 machine to run MW2 and MW3:PM on. Pirate's Moon is a game I could play all day long with the Annihilator and Ebon Jaguar present.

How are you getting 3D acceleration for MW3 in a Win98 virtual machine?

[Xmith]

My mistake. The original MW4 ran on W7 but not the IS and Clan expansion packs. Back in the day, Mektek was running MW4 Mercs on their severs after a download that included the IS and Clan expansion packs.

[Xmith]

I still have it installed on my computer with game resolution set at 800x600. It looks horrible at any other setting. I was running a GTX 550 and windows 64bit before MekTek closed the books on MechWarrior and shut down the servers.

Now I have a GTX 650ti and it still looks about the same.

Edited by Xmith, 15 May 2014 - 04:29 PM.

[Spr1ggan]

I can get MW4+Black Knight to run fine on Win7 but Mercs doesn't work at all.

[Mister Blastman]

Green Mamba, on 15 May 2014 - 01:27 PM, said:

Don't do it .....MW4 will Spoil You

That'd be Mechwarrior 2 and Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries. Both have superior campaigns to anything Mechwarrior 4.

moneyBURNER, on 15 May 2014 - 04:11 PM, said:

How are you getting 3D acceleration for MW3 in a Win98 virtual machine?

You could use dgvoodoo or something similar to emulate glide.

[Utilyan]

mine works perfect. I think you have to go into the options config file and fix up the settings.
im using win 7 64bit. Heres copy of my config, you could prob set bigger resolutions ect

[graphics options]
videodriverindex=0
detailtexture=true
multitexture=true
lightmaps=true
culturals=true
footsteps=true
missionmusic=true
noblend=false
antialias=false
vertexlighting=true
simplelighting=false
mipbias=0
shadowmode=1
fontsmall=-2
fontmedium=-2
fontlarge=-2
fontlarge2=-2
fontlarge3=-2
screenwidth=1024
screenheight=768
bitdepth=32
fancywater=true
movietextures=true
maxlights=8
compositing=3
effectlod=0.000000
lod=0.000000
loadradius=4
HideSky=false
[sound options]
lowendsound=false
radius=0.250000
hardwaremixing=false
[special commands]
killgame=false
autotorsocenter=2
huddamagemode=false
hudtargetdamagemode=false
[server]
allowdecaltransfer=0
[joystick]
bithrottlecenter=0.300000
bithrottlelow=0.250000
bithrottlehigh=0.060000
onethrottlecenter=0.300000
onethrottlehigh=0.060000
onewaythrottle=false
[msr spectator]
testmsr=hellomsrspectator
allowhudnamedisplay=1
allowhudchatdisplay=1
overshoulderherooffset_x=4.500000
overshoulderherooffset_y=1.000000
overshoulderherooffset_z=-10.000000
overshoulderenemyoffset_x=25.000000
overshoulderenemyoffset_y=-5.000000
overshoulderenemyoffset_z=5.000000
sideshotdelta_x=0.700000
sideshotdelta_y=5.000000
sideshothead_y=10.000000
frtshot_heady=6.000000
frtshot_camy=3.000000
frtshot_dist=15.000000
fixedtrack_x=1.000000
fixedtrack_y=15.000000
fixedtrack_z=25.000000
deathseq_x=0.000000
deathseq_y=4.000000
deathseq_z=-50.000000
deathanimdelay=1.300000
deathanimdur=2.700000
[network options]
connectiontype=lan
connectionspeed=10000
packetsize=512

[Sug]

If you have a hard drive lying around you can load XP on it and just dual boot.

[KAT Ayanami]

I do not know why I keep trying to run any MW4 on W7. The mouse WONT work correctly and does not matter what I do. It will not correct the acceleration issue.

There is NO WAY i can make those games work anymore without the annoying Mouse acceleration that makes the crosshair move a TINY bit when moving the mouse slow, and go bananas when you move it fast.

No trick in the book worked for me.

[Creovex]

Sug, on 15 May 2014 - 05:58 PM, said:

If you have a hard drive lying around you can load XP on it and just dual boot.

Uh you are aware you DON'T need a seperate hard drive to dual boot right??? This isn't the year 2000....

Rooks... http://windows.micro...t#1TC=windows-7

Edited by Creovex, 15 May 2014 - 07:21 PM.

[WarZ]

Kyle Wright, on 15 May 2014 - 01:16 PM, said:

Hey guys,
I loaded MW4 and MW4Mercs up and am having issues with the terrain being junk. Someone told me I needed to download something to make it run stable. Only reason I loaded it back up was because I wanted to experience a campaign mode again and try to see if my piloting skill has improved.

Anyone else have this issue and know how to fix it?

Theres a config file in the game directory. Run it again and make sure you select your graphics card in the lists. Makes a tremendous difference.

Last week I grabbed the last mektek package. If you can get your hands on that, thats the best experience going for replaying some MW4. It's no longer hosted on the mektek site. But there are a couple sites out there where fans have linked it. Google had me onto it in a couple searches.

[Egomane]

Please keep MW4 to the Off-Topic forums. We have several existing threads for that game already.

Closing!