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[Chikote]

I don't seem to be having any luck on the mektek forums, so I'm hoping maybe someone here can help me. I'm sure one or two of you are playing MW4: Mercs Anywho, my issue:

I first have to admit I'm not the most technologically savvy person out there. But here it goes.

I've followed all of the instructions. I downloaded MTX and downloaded MW4: Mercs from the games available tab. The instructions mention updating, but right after install it says it is updated. If I click "check for updates", nothing happens. So, it looks updated, but idk, maybe the issue is there. Anyway, when I try to launch the game, a window pops up like it is going to open for about 1-2 seconds (just a black screen in the window), and then it just closes. That's it. No error messages or anything.

So, can anyone help me get the game launched? Many thanks.


btw, , I'm running windows 7 home premium, in case that's the issue.

[Wolvenhaven]

Your executable target needs to look like this:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\MekTek.net\Mechwarrior Mercenaries - Mektek Mekpak\MW4Mercs.exe" /gosnovideo

The /gosnovideo at the end of it, outside of the quotation marks is key.

[Chikote]

Wolvenhaven, on 20 June 2012 - 05:29 PM, said:

Your executable target needs to look like this:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\MekTek.net\Mechwarrior Mercenaries - Mektek Mekpak\MW4Mercs.exe" /gosnovideo

The /gosnovideo at the end of it, outside of the quotation marks is key.

Thx for the response. It is quite possible I simply did it wrong as I'm not great with computers, but I wasn't able to get the game to launch. I changed the target address of the shortcut to what you said, but my window still opens and closes within seconds as before.

[Adrienne Vorton]

if you dont even see the very first intro part, it´s not the above problem

first of all...start as admin (rightklick the shortcut and search for the checkbox ), activate compatibility winxp sp 3 (same here, winXP sp3 in a dropdown) ... if that doesnt help add
the /gosnovideo AND/OR /gosnojoystick command like told above... (looks like "/gosnovideo /gosnojoystick" then) that worked for me, but i was able to run the intro, it crashed AFTER the first intro sequence..

also try / or \ ... i´m pretty sure you have to use /... and always with a space between
Mercs.exe"<1space>/gosnovideo /gosnojoystick

Edited by Adrienne Vorton, 21 June 2012 - 05:10 AM.

[Chikote]

Thanks, that worked! And after just a brief mechwarrior fix, I blew $120 PG, don't make me regret it.

[iamteuton]

Ugh. I keep seeing the "gosnovideo" fix all over the place, but when I try to modify the target shortcut as mentioned, I get a message saying "/ and \ cannot be used to modify file names". Which part am I doing wrong? I'm on a win7 64 bit if that makes a difference