🚀 go-pugleaf

FYI

Cruising around the net, I noticed that some WC gamers still have 
trouble with  getting WCP to run in 2K/XP and the proposed solutions.  I 
have it running under XP sp1a (win98 compat) with a Voodoo2/ATI Rage Pro 
LT (AMD K6-III) but wanted it to run on my main system as well.  My 
other systems run Slackware Linux and I don't want to bother with 
setting them up as gaming rigs as yet - they are only PII and PIII CPUs.

However, the system with a Voodoo2 has a heat lockup problem as one of 
its many hardware issues, and the XP V2 drivers, although funtional, are 
a bit unstable - also can't run the high res patches, etc.  I also 
didn't what to try the V2 in the w2k system because of the potential 
conflicts and high res issues.

I now have it running on:

Athlon 800 VIA KX133, 512MB, VIA AC'97 embedded sound
PNY G2ti4800 driver 61.77
Win2k sp4
Logitech Attack3 USB

The glide wrapper to OPENGL is here:  http://www.zeckensack.de/glide/
This is the only one I could get to work (OPENGlide no go, directx 
wrappers were complete junk - directx is complete junk...)

I set Win2k to run WCP in win95 compatibity mode (win98 mode may work as 
well).  The app comaptibility patch was added in sp2 around the time 
when XP was released.  I also use the glide fix for gl_00002.dll and the 
win2k patch for prophecy.exe.

So far, and I have not done extensive playing yet, it seems to work 
great - running WCP at 1024x768 currently.  It looks better and runs 
better than on the V2 system.

I'll poke around wcnews.com, etc. forums to see if anyone else bothered 
with this solution.  It may have been obvious to you guys by now.  I 
only fired up WCP again a few months ago (last time was w98 in dx7 mode 
- no v2).  I may post this there as well.

I may try to get my hands on a copy of WCIII and WCIV, since I never 
finished playing them and give it a wirl with this glide/opengl wrapper.

Hope this helps a few WCP fans.