Getting mechwarrior 2 mercenaries to work on windows xp

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The bit about the weapons hitting invisible objects, or blowing up in your face, or your jump jets not recharging are not windows XP problems - they're to do with a speed problem with the game engine. See, the game wasn't geared for computers this fast guess they didn't think people would still be playing 10 years later! If you slow down the game process enough, the bugs will stop occuring. With these, you can slow the game down and get it to work correctly. You might want to check out my FAQ at netmech.

Originally posted by dosfreak: Quote:Never experienced this issue before. Are you using any patches for the game? Have you tried running the game under DosBox?

Might want to do so and see if that fixes the issue, I can no longer remember the reasoning, but I do remember reading somewhere to patch to version 1. However, I vaguely remember missiles failing to properly fire when it was in 1. As far as DOSBox It is all very confusing Never experienced this issue before.

Might want to do so and see if that fixes the issue,. Meh, nevermind. I got it to work once, but now I seem completely unable to duplicate the results, and have tried lasers in every position, head, all three torsos, legs, arms. Someone help? Well this is a seperate yet entirely related problem I am having. I have gotten Mechwarrior 2 to start, run, and do everything correctly. But there is still one major problem. There seems to be a problem with the game's collision detection.

On the one hand, some objects simply cannot be shot : specifically, those behind objects that have been exploded, but are now visible. For intsance, I cannot shoot anyone standing behind an exploded building, even if I can see them. The lasers just sort of impact this But even more important, I cannot do the Cold Crescent mission, the one for Clan Wolf where you have to infiltrate the Falcons and destroy the terraformer core.

My shots just 'puff' in the middle of nowhere. I can even walk inside the terraformer building, screw around in there for awhile, get really really close to the core One time I got the Jade Falcon Rifleman IIC to follow me in there, and we were wailing on each other with shots that puffed right in front of us Needless to say, I am unhappy at my inability to destroy the core, because I need to to complete the mission.

Another problem is missiles explode in my face. When I fire them, they just blow up right in front of me and do a lot of damage to myself. It never did this before, and it is really irritating.

Anybody have any idea what is wrong, or how I can fix it? EDIT : I was muckin' about with the mission, trying various things to see if it would help, including the enolagay blows up everything cheat code, which did not help. Somehow I actually managed to shoot the core and explode it, and I think it had something to do with having one of my medium pulse lasers mounted in the head, instead of the arms like usual.

But missiles still explode in my face. Looks like it's not able to find the CD. If it can then that's not your problem. If it can't then you won't be able to get it work. Thanks for creating the list of things to do to get mw2 mercs to work! However, I still have a problem. I'm currently using the 1. The error shown is MW2. Oh btw, i made a bat file in the order shown in the faq, and my first cd-rom drive is e, as my comp has a hd partition on the d drive.

Any suggestions on how to fix the problem would be helpful. Thanks in advance. My advice The game will usually launch on its own if its gonna launch at all.

The games were designed in an era where having two CD drives on the same computer was almost unheard of. So if you've got multiple CD drives, the fact that your main CD drive is F probably is part of your problem. So like dosfreak suggested, change the letter of one of your CD drives to D: and see if that helps qbodsyt, as was pointed out, your batch file was totally messed up.

But if fixing it up didn't help, do the following: -Go into your mech2 directory -Right click on the exe file, and hit properties -Go into the program tab, and uncheck the box "close on exit" Now you'll see a PIF dos shortcut file appear.

Use that to run the game. Attempt to do as you did before, and get it to crash. Then you'll be able to see the error message, if any. If you need some help, i can e-mail them to you, if you'd like. Dang, I just happend to dig up my Mechwarrior 2 Titanium pack and the first thing I installed was good ol Merceneries.

Thought I could run it in compatability mode but just happend to find out on the net its not possible Its weard the game trys to load the screen turns black like its going into the game then it crashes to desktop and nothing. Ill have to give your dll patch a try for regular mech2, if it works I would be highly interested in having one for Mereneries since its my fav of the trilogy.

EDIT: Patch dosent work, says my dll file is different, thought the titanium pack might not include the patch so I downloaded v1.