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Re: Independence War - I-War

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From: Matt v3.3
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:57
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Angus typed:
> I now have the 3dfx option requester coming up, but when I try to
> run the game from here (in whatver mode) I get an error message to
> do with the "BRender".
> 
> Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?

Did you run the glide wrapper configuration? I think I just set it
to 'global' and picked the resolution.

In any case, it *was* I-War that had the virtual memory issue. Try
setting your Windows swap file to 512MB.

[Control Panel > System > Advanced > Performance Settings > Advanced
  > under Virtual Memory click Change > select Custom Size and enter
  512 in both boxes > click Set > OK > OK > OK]

There is a thread about it here:
http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=4839663

(The poster 'Stephen Robertson' is one of the game co-designers, and
even *he* had trouble running it! - LOL)

Reading that, I also remember that the game used to crash at the end
of every mission, but your progress gets saved. So just had to start
it up again.  (You might have less issues forgetting about glide and
using software mode, but I could never get that to work)

And as usual, setting the game shortcut to Win98 compatibility mode.

Best of luck, :)


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