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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.

"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

Glenn Janot wrote:
> I use Win2k

Ouch. Worst pick (for this particular problem).
Try to run it in commpatibility mode like you would in XP I think should 
solve it.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q279792&
describes how to get this mode in Win2k

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"Karl Frank" <ka...@karl.frank.name> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Glenn Janot wrote:
> > I use Win2k
>
> Ouch. Worst pick (for this particular problem).
> Try to run it in commpatibility mode like you would in XP I think should
> solve it.
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q279792&
> describes how to get this mode in Win2k
>
OK, I did the stuff that was mentioned in this help file. But it didn't
work.
:-(
I still get the message VirtualProtect() failed, although I chnged the
compalibility. Maybe next time I renew my comp, I should install Win XP