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Robg wrote:
> Is it actually possible to change key assignments for the joystick in WCP?
> I can't find anything in the interface to do it.  I was hoping to assign the
> top switch to afterburners.  I'm sure it's possible to assign the switches
> in WCIII. :-7

I actually don't think you can reassign keys in any WC game besides Armada.
Get a programmable stick is all I can recommend.

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"Karl Frank" <ka...@karl.frank.name> wrote in message
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> I actually don't think you can reassign keys in any WC game besides
Armada.

I'm sure I programmed WCIII to fire missiles using the top button on the
joystick.  Unfortunately I can't check because the Kilrathi Saga version of
WCIII bombs on this PC with an error to do with a glide dll.  Presumably
some call the game makes isn't compatible with the video card or DirectX
later than DX 6.  I could run it in software emulation mode but that looks
awful.  Hmmm.... enough for testing purposes I guess.

> Get a programmable stick is all I can recommend.

I guess I'll have to live with killing my keyboard's TAB key. :(

Rob

Robg wrote:

> I'm sure I programmed WCIII to fire missiles using the top button on the
> joystick.  Unfortunately I can't check because the Kilrathi Saga version of
> WCIII bombs on this PC with an error to do with a glide dll.  Presumably
> some call the game makes isn't compatible with the video card or DirectX
> later than DX 6.  I could run it in software emulation mode but that looks
> awful.  Hmmm.... enough for testing purposes I guess.

Software emulation mode? WC3? What are you talking about? WC3 is 
software, period.
Re KS crashing: Do you use WinXP or Win2000?

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"Karl Frank" <ka...@karl.frank.name> wrote in message
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> Software emulation mode? WC3? What are you talking about? WC3 is
> software, period.

Have a look at the installer for Kilrathi Saga.  There is a button which
allows you to choose the "Video Card".  One option it DirectX and the other
is Software.

> Re KS crashing: Do you use WinXP or Win2000?

Not to run this.  I have a PC which dual boots into Win98SE.  When not
playing incompatible games I use Win2K on a different partition.

The Kilrathi Saga WCIII is unplayable on this machine unless I can find ways
to get it to run smoothly and to calibrate the joystick.  The joystick is
calibrated in Windows but not in WCIII.  The calibration feature in the game
doesn't work.  I could play it with the mouse and or keyboard but I'd rather
use a joystick.  The movies skip and stutter and have crackling audio
regardless of the acceleration settings of the video card or audio card.
Setting them both to no hardware acceleration helps buts doesn't eliminate
the problem.

At least WCP does run - although I was bloody annoyed when it dropped out a
second before Blair's last tussle in the warp gate with an error that looks
like a CD prefetch failed.  Ah well.  Have to play that last battle again...

Rob

PS You're right, neither WCP nor WCIII allow the user to set buttons on the
joystick.  Maybe I was remembering doing it in another game like Starlancer
or Freespace 2.

PPS Has anyone tried Freelancer?

"Karl Frank" <ka...@karl.frank.name> wrote in message
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> Software emulation mode? WC3? What are you talking about? WC3 is
> software, period.

My mistake.  Looks like it was the Prophecy/Secret Ops installers I was
thinking of.

I swear the DOS version of WCIII looked better than my current install of KS
though.

Rob