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RE: Windows 7 *GUARANTEED* fix - 9/7/2011 6:05:48 PM   
NCrawler

 

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Status: offline 		Anyone that wants the DLL, just PM me with your email address and I'll send it to you...

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RE: Windows 7 *GUARANTEED* fix - 11/7/2011 6:46:37 AM   
Ironfist738


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Status: offline 		Great Gonzo's After I posted I found this Forum Topic. Thank you guys so much for finding a fix. Maybe I can return to the Steel Panthers field of Battle now..

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RE: Windows 7 *GUARANTEED* fix - 12/31/2011 8:40:24 PM   
demjansk

 

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Status: offline 		Hi Guys,

I have the game working fine with the win7 fix for the game in win7.  Do all of you get the same resolution in the game?  It looks like a 800x600, its not really sharp like it was when I had it on an old machine.

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RE: Windows 7 *GUARANTEED* fix - 1/3/2012 2:55:00 AM   
JEB Davis


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Status: offline 		LCD screens stink... is that what you have?

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RE: Windows 7 *GUARANTEED* fix - 1/3/2012 9:24:01 PM   
demjansk

 

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Status: offline 		Hi Jeb,

You are correct, I have a 24" widescreen ASUS lcd monitor, works great but not as sharp as the old crt monitors on this game.  Do you agree that's what happens?

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RE: Windows 7 *GUARANTEED* fix - 1/4/2012 3:01:51 AM   
JEB Davis


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Status: offline 		Absolutely. LCD's only look good at their full resolution.

When the 800x600 resolution is "stretched" to fill the full screen on an LCD, the pixels have to be "interpolated" to the closest approximation of the actual image, so it's a garbled image.

On the CRT, the size of the monitor's pixels actually changes to keep a 1 pixel to 1 pixel relationship for a true 800x600 image, just with larger pixels than what you would have with the monitor set to 1280x1024 for instance.

Plug one of your old CRT's in and see if it works better.

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RE: Windows 7 *GUARANTEED* fix - 1/6/2012 10:57:57 AM   
demjansk

 

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Status: offline 		hi jeb,

I do have the game still on my older computer which is set up right behind me. I can't remember now how it looks. It would be great if this game had high resolution to at least 1200x whatever number they use. It doesn't look real bad when I play the game but I always liked the crispness of the game and I don't have that with a 24 inch monitor running at 1920x1080

thanks

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RE: Windows 7 *GUARANTEED* fix - 1/13/2012 2:35:46 PM   
Rosollia

 

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Status: offline 		I can confirm that setting the core affinity to use the second core of a dual-core cpu seems to alleviate the artillery screen lag on my Win7 laptop. It won't fix it entirely. Just setting it to a singe core affinity or to use the first core won´t help. Using the imagecfg program with the command "imagecfg -a 0x2 mech.exe" edits the executable to run on the second core. You have to do this in the windows command line promt.


As for the color fix the direct draw compatibility tool does fix the colors, but it does not fix the colors immediately upon starting the game. You need to choose single player and go to the edit screen. Then the colors should look normal.


I have not yet tested the dll fix by NCrawler, but it may be the best fix. There have been a couple of dll fixes to other games in the past. I believe they are called direct draw wrappers and use a modified ddraw.dll file... There are source codes availanle for some of those projects.

These won't work on spwaw but may be useful to developing ddraw.dll for spwaw maybe?
http://sol.gfxile.net/ddhack/
http://hifi.iki.fi/cnc-ddraw/#download


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RE: Windows 7 *GUARANTEED* fix - 1/13/2012 4:47:07 PM   
planner 3

 

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Status: offline 		Rosollia try holding down the SHIFT Button Prior to selecting ANYTHING from the Artillery screen, that will/should cut down a lot of the delay probs. FWIW

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RE: Windows 7 *GUARANTEED* fix - 1/14/2012 12:20:59 PM   
Rosollia

 

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Status: offline 		Thank you for the tip planner 3, but I still prefer the core affinity fix. Pressing shift everytime before clicking can get abit tedious.

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RE: Windows 7 *GUARANTEED* fix - 1/14/2012 3:42:37 PM   
Rosollia

 

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Status: offline 		While reading a topic in the spwaw enhanced forum I came across an even simpler way to setup the core affinity.
This method does not reguire the imagecfg program. It is probably better too because you do not need to edit the actual exe file in any way.
You are just using build-in Windows commands to temporarily set the game to run on the second core.
This way if you do not like the results you can just start the game normaly the next time.

Instructions:
Just copy this text below...

start /B /WAIT /AFFINITY 2 mech.exe

...to notepad and save it as AffinityFix.cmd (The .cmd part is important!) to the same folder where your mech.exe file is. (The main folder of the game.)
Then when you want to start the game double-click on this newly created file and the game should then run on the core no.2 and your artillery screen should be more responsive.


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RE: Windows 7 *GUARANTEED* fix - 2/19/2012 12:57:05 PM   
jamos

 

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Status: offline 		This issue is no longer only related to Win 7 or Vista.

Now XP with sp3 gets the same pallete distortion and artillery bug.

Any fix publically available from Matrix other than a cludgy cmd file fix that stops explorer?

Yes I have tried VMWare with mixed results. On some computers it ran fine on others it crashes (probably because of the video card).

Help me NCrawler your my only hope


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RE: Windows 7 *GUARANTEED* fix - 4/30/2012 8:10:20 PM   
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Status: offline 		They should change the name of this game to "Steel Agates" because that's what it takes to have a game advertised for sale at $80 that not only gets zero support from the publisher, but wouldn't even run at all on the latest version of Windows (or the one before that) without a user created fix.

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RE: Windows 7 *GUARANTEED* fix - 5/12/2012 5:17:29 PM   
Rosollia

 

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quote:

This issue is no longer only related to Win 7 or Vista.

Now XP with sp3 gets the same pallete distortion and artillery bug.


Odd. I just tested this game on Windows XP Pro SP3 (32bit) and had no problems with the color palette.

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RE: Windows 7 *GUARANTEED* fix - 5/12/2012 5:35:06 PM   
planner 3

 

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Status: offline 		Been running on Win XP for 2 years or more without any pallette or artillery problem, 5 versions on SPwaw installed.

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RE: Windows 7 *GUARANTEED* fix - 9/1/2012 1:20:41 PM   
Grimnirsson


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Status: offline 		I had the same problems with Windows 7 64bit (Home Premium). Running the game in compatibility mode didn't solve the color problems. I then deactivated Aero and switched to Windows basic / classic design - and the color problems were 99% gone (with only a few weird pixels here and there).

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RE: Windows 7 *GUARANTEED* fix - 4/28/2013 11:45:11 PM   
tcarusil

 

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Status: offline 		Tried this but it did not work. Clearly I am doing something wrong. When I click on the zip file the screen flashes, a dos screen appear momentarily and then nothing. Any thoughts?

TomC

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