Re: Privateer 2 and WC4 under XP

Article View: alt.games.wing-commander

Article #160740

Back to alt.games.wing-commander Previous Next

#160740

From: Neil
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 17:46

33 lines
2206 bytes

I'm using the Dos version with the win9x patch. When moving around the 
ship it seems ok, but selecting stuff can be dificult, it is mainly the 
combat again.

TC wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 18:17:04 +0000 (UTC), in alt.games.wing-commander Neil
> <nei...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have tried to install Privateer 2 on my PC and it went ok.
>>
>>However when I try to play the game I have two problems,
>>
>>1/ Using the bulletin board is difficult, the graphics are very slow and 
>>the mouse doesn't select properly.
>>
>>2/ In combat the game is so fast that it is unplayable, assume it is a 
>>cpu issue.
> 
> 
> Yeah, the speed limiter's sort of flaky.  Assuming you have P2: Deluxe (the W9x
> version), try using the patch at the very bottom of this page:
> http://wcrevival.de/hcl/exe_dll/
> 
> 
>>With WC4, I have managed to install ok, but again the combat is 
>>unplayable due to speed
> 
> 
> Where, exactly do you have speed problems?
> Are you running the Windows 9x version, or the DOS version?

Technical Details

Message-ID: <3EE76B02.2010608@yahoo.com>

Path:

mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!out.nntp.be!propagator2-sterling!news-in-sterling.newsfeed.com!newshosting.com!news-xfer1.atl.newshosting.com!btnet-peer0!btnet-feed5!btnet!news.btopenworld.com!not-for-mail

References: <3EE4CF15.90105@yahoo.com> <ejeaevg01ae2pc6m5lqckpdlrqgbgunlkr@4ax.com>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!out.nntp.be!propagator2-sterling!news-in-sterling.newsfeed.com!newshosting.com!news-xfer1.atl.newshosting.com!btnet-peer0!btnet-feed5!btnet!news.btopenworld.com!not-for-mail
From: Neil <nei...@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: alt.games.wing-commander
Subject: Re: Privateer 2  and WC4 under XP
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 17:46:57 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: BT Openworld
Lines: 34
Message-ID: <3EE76B02.2010608@yahoo.com>
References: <3EE4CF15.90105@yahoo.com> <ejeaevg01ae2pc6m5lqckpdlrqgbgunlkr@4ax.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: dial81-131-45-102.in-addr.btopenworld.com
Mime-Version: 1.0
X-Trace: hercules.btinternet.com 1055353617 7951 81.131.45.102 (11 Jun 2003 17:46:57 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: news-co...@lists.btinternet.com
NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 17:46:57 +0000 (UTC)
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
Disposition-Notification-To: Neil <nei...@yahoo.com>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Reply to Parent Message