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[MadStrider]

I have recently been trying to get a copy of Mechwarrior 4 vengance to run on my laptop. I have a Toshiba Satellite P75-A7100 and am having serious graphic issues running the game. Does anyone have any good fixes for this?

Edited by ThunderPaws, 04 August 2014 - 03:39 PM.

[ProtoformX]

ThunderPaws, on 04 August 2014 - 03:38 PM, said:

Does anyone have any good fixes for this?

Install MWO instead.

In all seriousness though, I doubt you'll find any support here.

[keith]

i know my copy of merc works. but it stuck in 800x600

[Escef]

Your best bet is to just set up a virtual machine and install an older version of Windows on it.

[Graugger]

I would like to know as well, I tried installing MW4 Mercs and it refuses to launch.

[SgtMagor]

think you'll find what your looking for here, dunno anything else. when Mektek ended MW4, I never looked back, after years of beta testing never really had time to play MW4 for fun... http://www.netbattletech.com/nbt-hc/

[Rhent]

ThunderPaws, on 04 August 2014 - 03:38 PM, said:

I have recently been trying to get a copy of Mechwarrior 4 vengance to run on my laptop. I have a Toshiba Satellite P75-A7100 and am having serious graphic issues running the game. Does anyone have any good fixes for this?

Install VMware Player on your machine, take up like 40 GB. Install Windows XP on it and then install MW4. You could also right click on the icon and run MW4 in XP comparability mode.

[Mcgral18]

I was using MW4 Mercs (along with MW2 Mercs and MW3) on Windows 7 64 bit without issue.

I don't even think I needed anything special, unlike the older two MechWarrior games. How are you trying to start it?


The cut off could be Windows 7 to 8, which would be a shame.

Edited by Mcgral18, 04 August 2014 - 07:19 PM.

[Vassago Rain]

MW2 and MW4 work (mostly) fine on windows 7. MW3 barely works at all, and you need an nvidia card to make it work.

If you absolutely want to play all the old ones, your best bet is actually to dig out an old pentium II machine with a voodoo 3, or something similar.

[Mcgral18]

Vassago Rain, on 04 August 2014 - 07:20 PM, said:

MW2 and MW4 work (mostly) fine on windows 7. MW3 barely works at all, and you need an nvidia card to make it work.

If you absolutely want to play all the old ones, your best bet is actually to dig out an old pentium II machine with a voodoo 3, or something similar.

Have you tried this for MW3?

https://docs.google....mLWs/edit?pli=1

It stopped that...weird... graphical bug, as if the previous screen was sticking to the cockpit.


Or is it the bouncing APCs and Mechs...or something entirely different? Fast CPUs do funny things to old games.

[Vassago Rain]

Mcgral18, on 04 August 2014 - 07:36 PM, said:

Have you tried this for MW3?

https://docs.google....mLWs/edit?pli=1

It stopped that...weird... graphical bug, as if the previous screen was sticking to the cockpit.


Or is it the bouncing APCs and Mechs...or something entirely different? Fast CPUs do funny things to old games.

It's everything. I got it running fine on my XP netbook, but anything more modern than that does weird things to the game.

[Mcgral18]

Vassago Rain, on 04 August 2014 - 07:47 PM, said:

It's everything. I got it running fine on my XP netbook, but anything more modern than that does weird things to the game.

I do have an aging system, so perhaps that helps.

[Zordicron]

MW3 ran mostly as good as it ever did(few bugs, dont know where to find the patch for game after I install from CD) when I put it on my W7 64 bit. What i did, was not use the CD's, I downloaded the entire CD onto my drive, installed it from there. Seemed to help with some of the wonky stuff, maybe it was the PCU speed vs disc read speed or whatever, but it worked great.

Only had one issue, the one map where you go down into that cavern with the giant green gas pod at the end, that map hung up like 15 times in a row on me lol, finally pathed the mission like backwards almost, took waypoints out of order, got past it to the finish. Pirates moon seems more buggy though to me.

MW4, I havent played it since my last bunch of PC upgrades, but I presume it would be fine.

W8, I agree with others, if it doesnt work in XP compatibility mode, likely better to just get a virtual box, or load up a copy of XP to run and install it there. I dont think you would see an issue with DX versions or anything like that.