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"Spalls Hurgenson" <yoinks@ebalu.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 17:19:04 +0100, "Glenn Janot" <son-goku@arcor.de>
> wrote:
>
> >Hi, I don'T know if this question was already mentioned here, I'm new.
I'd
> >like to know if there's a way to get Wing Commander to work under Win2k.
> >When I start playing it, the Videos first run in fast forward and then
they
> >stand still. So, practically the game is unplayable that way for it's
living
> >from its videos :-/
>
> People have found success running WC3 in 2K/XP with VDMSound
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/vdmsound/ , which emulates DOS
> soundcards very well, which is the usual cause of problems for DOS
> games running under NT/2K/XP.
>
> Or you could try DOSBox, http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/ , which
> emulates the DOS enviroment WC3 was designed for far better than
> Windows own CMD emulator. However, last I checked WC3 was only
> "runnable", and not "playable". That may have changed
>
> Alternately, you can buy a copy of the Kilrathi Saga (if you can find
> it; try EBay), which includes Wing Commanders I, II and III updated
> for the Windows environment.
>
> Myself, I keep around an old Win9x box for games like these; if they
> don't run in Win95, I can still boot to plain-DOS (hey, the machine
> even has an ISA soundcard, it's that old!)
>
> Anyway, that's the order I'd try.

First port of call is lower your DX sound settings. If you dont know what Im
talking about find 'dxdiag.exe' and click the 'sound' tab, then drag the
slider down to "basic" acceleration.

It usually works, so just try that before you start downloading all these
other things.

Ed