Mechwarrior 2

[Drew Boillot]

I've been itching to play Mechwarrior 2 lately, so i loaded the Win95/98
version up on my MP. it installed fine, but when i went to play it, nothing
happened. The intro movie plaied, but when the game was supposed to start it
just went away.
I tried surching google for a fix, but either my searching skills are
lacking, or theres no one else tring to play MW2.
Anyone here know a fix, or at least why this is happening?

I have WinXP, a GeForce FX 5600, current version of DX9, current Vid
drivers, currrent sound drivers, the VIA 4-in-1's installed. pretty much
anything i could think of to see if the game would play.

 

[EGMcCann]

As I recall, it states flat out on Activision's site that MW2 does not and
will not work in XP.

 

[Drew Boillot]

Bah! that bites! MW2 is by far better then MW3 and is leaps and bounds
better then the toon-ified MW4...

Well.. thanks for your reply.. I coudn't find any info on there website..
tho they were in the middle of redoing it at the time... Oh wells..

 

[Yves Leclerc]

Hey, I did get MW2 to run in XP, once. This was a loooong time ago. Head
over to ntcompatible.com to see if your had posted a "work-around".

Y.

 

[sam]

-----Original Message-----
Oh yea, the System Compablity doens't seem to work..it gave me an error
once, (i'm not at my PC right now so i can't tell you the exact error)

went to play it,
nothing was supposed to start
it


.

If I recall Mechwarrior 2 will only play in 256 colour.
Use the compatibility mode and choose win 95 and 256
colour.

 

[EGMcCann]

Read the FAQ on Activision's site. They say, flat out, MW2 will not play on
XP.