ToxicFrog on 19/10/2002 at 04:09
A few more things:
<> Some people have reported a problem where some cutscenes play with sound only, no video. There is a complete solution (
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7417) here. Beware: it will destroy your __FF.EXE if you are using any version other than 1.09 english! It is much easier if you have XVI32, and thus can use the patching script. You can get XVI32 (
http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delphi/freeware/xvi32/xvi32.htm) here.
<> +BADLINMODES seems to fix an error where it bluescreens with "Unable to write to drive C: (or whatever). Data or files may be lost.", as well as everything else. :)
<> +BADPALDAC fixes a problem that causes the colors to be completely scrambled on some screens, even though the game plays fine.
Someone should probably make a list of all of the known effects of BADLINMODES and BADPALDAC.
BillChivers on 17/11/2002 at 19:53
I am jumping up and down with excitement.
TN, quite possibly the best game in recorded history. I loved it. But my puny old PC struggled with the later scenarios, and I always wondered what it would be like to play at hi resolution with everything turned on.
So, I finally bought a newer PC, and eagerly loaded TN, only couldn't make it run. By then, Looking Glass had expired and I couldn't find any help in usenet or anywhere else.
Now I'm on yet another newer PC. So, there I am this morning looking at my terranova box, gathering dust as it has done for pretty much 5 years, and something prompted me to put Terranova "Looking Glass" in to Google. And so here I am, on a board where people are actually successfully running it.
I must admit, its been years since I last fiddled with config files etc, and most of what I've glanced at so far is barely remembered terminology, but it is so encouraging just to be here.
I'll let you know how I get on.
Bill
Shadowcat on 18/11/2002 at 10:05
> TN, quite possibly the best game in recorded history.
I like you already :) Good luck!! (If you get confused by any of the suggestions, just ask and we should be able to help out...)
BillChivers on 18/11/2002 at 19:12
Some success already. Went through the install via hardrive walkthrough above and got the game running, but 2 snags:
1.) The link to the v1.09 patch is dead. Sure I can find the patch somewhere though, but its a lower priority to fix than:
2.) Can't get the sound to work. (I can get music though).
I have a Soundblaster PCI card, runing under win98
Seems if I run setup then I can get it to pass the digital sound test with several of the various automatic soundblaster card configs, however it doesn't work in the game.
If I run tnconfig then it always fails the test as well.
I've tried setting the sound card manually, but the IRQ is locked unchageably at 9 in windows, and that isn't an option under manual selection in the TN setup files.
Bill
Shadowcat on 19/11/2002 at 02:44
I don't have an answer to the sound issue offhand, but I can get the patch problem out of the way immediately -- you can FTP it from the Games Domain at:
(
ftp://ftp.gamesdomain.co.uk/pub/patches/pc/general-patches/t/tnv109.zip)
I wonder if your sound card might utilise a lower IRQ if you disabled the hardware current it? I think I recall 'disabling' my non-existant printer from the control panel in order to get the SB Live's SB16 emulation working correctly. Probably not the preferable solution, but perhaps worth a shot...
acidic_spunk on 18/1/2003 at 06:18
Terra Nova ... running on XP! :P
Yes! It's possible ... but not without something like Virtual PC. The office where I worked at for work-experience (UK) had it installed ... with DOS 6.22 as one of the O/Ss. So I installed Terra Nova, intro movie played ... menu showed ... mission started ... dropped off ... landed ... and it worked!
It was a little laggy at times, as I expect the emulation has processor heavy, but it _is_ possible to play all those old DOS games (even those that need EMM386) with such a program ... it's just not cheap.
Maybe we should ask Connectix (Virtual PC makers) to develop a games-version of their software, that just had DOS functionality on ... we wouldn't have all these silly problems anymore.
Since I couldn't really afford the software, I got hold of an old 233MHz machine to play it on ... Terra Nova! Not even a sequal could better it. :)
Dowen on 24/1/2003 at 20:28
Hmm, it's been a while since I last dwelled these boards. I don't know if this is still of interest but...
Quote:
Originally posted by Shadowcat I think I recall 'disabling' my non-existant printer from the control panel in order to get the SB Live's SB16 emulation working correctly. Probably not the preferable solution, but perhaps worth a shot... I got the SB16 emulation of my Live to use IRQ 7 (instead of I don't remember what) by enabling LPT interrupt sharing in the properties of the SB16 emulation 'device'. No need to disable anything, and it works. I'm on Win98 (ugh... but hey, at least I can run TN! :) ).
fitzgerald_ed on 29/4/2003 at 07:37
(
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=67482) A Link to my thread....TN working on XP!!
I've stuck this link here just in case there are some people who want to run TN on XP but don't visit the TN forums regularly....they might have email notification on this thread cos it's the main troubleshooting thread :)
Rolewn on 20/7/2003 at 01:57
Hello. Im considering buying this game from cdaccess.com, but i want to make sure it will run on my comp first :/
1.3 ghz P4
GeForce3
712MB Ram
Windows ME (I know it sucks, im hoping to dual-boot into XP soon)
Et cetera
Actually, is the game protected mode? If it isnt, then dosbox should run the game just fine (though it probably is)
James Sterrett on 20/7/2003 at 19:06
The answer is....
Definitely maybe.
In principle, you can get it to run. As the above thread demonstrates, it may not be easy.
In any event, the game is brilliant, and well worth it if you can get it working.