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Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries is a masterpiece in its category. Battle between powerful 'moss - robots' are the leading in the above title.
The player takes the role of leader of the people in charge of such machines. They are mercenaries, who join in the conflict for money. Choosing faction to which we belong is important. Defend depend on what will be used during the war, cash flow, which is very important. With increasing experience opens up new possibilities: hire new pilots, new 'mechs' or weapons. Before doing so, it will be a long time.
You can create a robot in its sole discretion. They allow us the option a lot of available options for improvement. By setting audiovisual Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries drips climate futuristic machines of this type of conflict. 'Get it' pulls application that once installed will enable downloading games.Minimum Requirements:Processor: 700 MHzRAM: 128 MBGraphics Card: 16 MBFree hard disk space: not availableSound Card: no data.
I originally made this over at our old home but since were no longer there I thought id best bring it with me as a point of reference. Actually I should try get all these working again since I'm now sitting on win10This isn’t a complete guide however as there are so many configurations of PC’s it’s impossible to factor everything in but these were made to work on a fairly clean 7x64 install. I’m also going to assume you’ve a degree of computer literacy but if you don’t know your ISO from your EXE then shoutout and I’ll try point you in the right direction, also If anyone could aid in testing these methods on ATI hardware as well as on some other OS’ then I can update this for future reference.Mechwarrior 2/GBL/MERCSVersions Tested: Original RetailWhat is it?The original trilogy and a starting point for many Mech fans unfamiliar with the TT. There are far too many sodding versions of these games made. Between the original retail/3DFX/Rage/PowrVR/Titanium/ATI there are so many ways of getting these to work that it’s a bloody nightmare to try and list them all.
If you remember them fondly I’d probably recommended leaving it at that.Installation issues:Too many to list. The original MW2 and GBL were DOS only and while Mercs added support for windows 95; it was one of the first games to run on windows and it was flaky at best, I think everyone just ran it from DOS and left it at that.
I did manage to get MERCS to install and run but failure to initialise the 3D Engine upon starting a mission meant I didn’t get very far, could be a directx issue. It might be worth investigating MECHVM which essentially forces them to run in a dosbox but but you’ll need to rip your discs to ISO’s to try it.Running issues:Never got past installation, became too much of a headache in the end. The titanium editions of MW2 and GBL were built on the MERCS engine and I know people have managed to get that working through a voodoo ritual involving 2 chickens and an urban mech.Mechwarrior 3Versions tested: Original retail, 1.3 Repress (Mechpack)Confirmed OS: 7x64What is it?Fantastic, no seriously; After a botched op your lance and a few MFB’s are left stranded behind enemy lines essentially winging the rest of the operation whilst desperately searching for a evac off planet. Amazing visuals, great sound and chest thumping OST. Autocannons never sounded so terrifying.Installation issues:None that I know of.Running issues:Exe needs to be run in XP compatibility mode.Mission 2 will break horribly with “jumping jeeps” and a missing Missile launcher. This is a doozy to fix as the problem is essentially your machine running too fast, so we need to slow it down.
Make a new profile in your GPU and force Vsync to run at adaptive half refresh. This will force the game to run at 30 fps. Mission 2 should then be completable. Click to expand.Yes. You definitely need to find 'unofficial' executables without CP to easily run them in Dosbox (which I don't think would be illegal, if you own the original, but laws are different everywhere and I don't want to encourage anyone to break it).Another option is tinkering with experimental dosbox builds like Daum's that offer very fine control over the DOS environment.Those IBM-PC era games can be tricky to get running. If you want to emulate everything like old pre-general-midi music cards instead of just a PC Speaker.Another thing is CPU-cycles. More often than not the games back then were balanced only for the clock speeds of PC-XTs (the infamous 4.77 Mhz) or PC-ATs like Mechwarrior 1, so you need to find the exact CPU-Cycle number for your system to slow your modern CPU accordingly inside DOSBox.
The easiest way to achieve that is running an old DOS benchmark like MIPS 1.10 and going by rule of three.It's not impossible. Mechwarrior is running flawlessly in my DOSBox. It hasn't aged well though, as control options that are like common sense to us today we're not standardised (although that can be mitigated with the DOSBox remapper function) and people were happy with way less frames than today (15 FPS ought to be enough for everybody)Yes, the game gets really hard at 30 FPS. Too fast to operate a mech in combat.And I didn't even talked about the rather outdated storytelling (trial and error in the entire inner sphere with very few clues where to look. Did I mention permadeath dialogue options?). It's not impossible.
Mechwarrior is running flawlessly in my DOSBox. It hasn't aged well though, as control options that are like common sense to us today we're not standardised (although that can be mitigated with the DOSBox remapper function) and people were happy with way less frames than today (15 FPS ought to be enough for everybody)Yes, the game gets really hard at 30 FPS. Too fast to operate a mech in combat.And I didn't even talked about the rather outdated storytelling (trial and error in the entire inner sphere with very few clues where to look. Did I mention permadeath dialogue options?).
Click to expand.One rather abruptly learns in MW I that it's a bad idea to ignore a gyro-jet rifle pointed in your direction. I was never fond of the 'click the right answer or die' dialog options, or the ones which basically end the quest with a failure, with few or no clues to go. You generally have to reload several saves at each junction point, and keep trying until you hit the right choice.CHI had the map room floor puzzle, as well as getting all of the keys for the gates in the right sequence, which were at least a mixture of 'trial and error' and making just enough guesses to figure out how the puzzle worked.
I was surprised at how much stuff was actually coded into Inception, but never implemented. Apparently, the developers ran out of time or money, and had to release it 'as is', rather than finish it.
Most of the standard weapons were included, even if you couldn't buy ammo for the LRMs or auto-cannons, but nothing in the game actually used them (other than the Urbanmechs guarding the arena - I always wanted to salvage one of those just to see if it could be done). I was able to hack into the saved game files with a sector editor and basically put in all of the stats for a P-Hawk, Marauder, and Warhammer in place of the Locust, Wasp, and Stinger, but they had to share the same couple of images with the other 'Mechs.CHR used pulse width modulation to implement a rather brute-forced and garbled attempt at speech, and I don't see that working well with an emulator, but I won't say it's impossible. It also had some rather extreme memory requirements which forced a lot of players to edit their memory usage in 'autoexec.bat', or remove other things from the system (like important hardware) to free up the few extra bytes. Basically, it needed everything a pre-Windows PC could deliver at the time. I managed to get both MW2 and MW2 Mercs running fine.
The best help for this is on this forum:MW3, still have problems with that on Windows 7. I had it running fine once though until I did a wipe, re-install of Windows - don't remember exactly what fix I was using.
EDIT: i remember now, here: - there also used to be a mech warrior 3 resource forum, but I can't find it anymoreMW4 Vengeance, can't get that to work, runs like hot garbage for some reason.MW4 Mercs works fine, I made a prepackaged install for it that can be shared which includes all MekTek stuff + HD Textures + CO OP Missions + Hundreds of custom and close to canon variantsFrankly I am shocked Microsoft is not working with GoG to make these games playable on modern systems for sale. A crime against game history by leaving them shelved. Perhaps they are who knows. The singleplayer and multiplayer in all of them are still fun to this day.