European Air War, M1 Tank Platoon II, and Panzer Elite???

[Mike Zamarocy 1]

I see EAW and PE listed as working, but I can't even get them to install. Does anyone have a work-around for this, please?

 

And I can install M1TP2, but soon as I go to enter in a battle, I am kicked to the desktop.

[Wolf87a 0]

Panzer Elite plays perfectly with DirectX 8.

It does with Detonator 3 drivers 6.47.

[Mike Zamarocy 1]

But my main question for PE is HOW did you get it to install? I get all sorts of errors and it won't complete the installation.

 

Thanks

[Wolf87a 0]

Just reinstalled it. No problem at all. Click install, choose full and it does. Then start 3D-Control Centre and adjust graphic properties (1920x1200). It plays fine with 6.62 Detonators drivers on Kenwood 72X CD with firmware update for UDMA 2.

 

So your problem may be a bad media disk but more probably the CD Rom itself or DMA may not work. It may also explain slowdowns and lockups of MW4.

 

European Air War installation just fails.

[Splat 0]

EAW installs ok but you need to run acompat.exe (W2K CD)and then as NT4 and then point to the auto run on the CD; it works fine, better than 98 in terms of stability and speed.

 

Panzer Elite, installs fine and runs fine no problems at all???

 

M12TP no chance,

[Mike Zamarocy 1]

Panzer Elite now works fine! But though I got EAW to install, it will only run for a few moments, then lockup my system hard. I used the SETWIN95.CMD on it which helped me get at least that far. If I use the acompat.exe, it either does not run, or say the MSCVRT.DLL is missing or not the Win32S version. Any clues??? Or should I go with the MS Combat Simulator instead???

[Splat 0]

Thanks to X-AL this is what he posted and it worked fine, especially as EAW is so much better than the M$ Combat stuff.

 

My solution was (so you don´t need setwin95):

First, update EAW to Version1.2. Then install APCOMPAT.exe (it´s in a support drawer of the W2K-CD). Run APCOMPAT.exe, checkmark only NT5 as the operating system, and link (important!) AUTOPLAY.exe from the EAW-CD in the field "Start the following program". Klick OK! Then the autostart EAW screen appears. Good flight!

[Mike Zamarocy 1]

There is no "NT5" in the Acompat.Exe I have, only Windows 2000 or NT4 SP5. I take it you mean Win2K by saying NT5???

 

And it is quite interesting that you do it on the AutoPlay file!

[LoW_beta 0]

They meant NT4 SP5 to select in Apcompat. Also use 1.2a patch instead of 1.2.

[Mike Zamarocy 1]

Where can I find the 1.2"A" patch????

[Mike Zamarocy 1]

Never mind, I finally found the 1.2a patch. But guess what? First off, I still get the error about the CD missing (even though I did the ini hack), but if I click on continue, it will play the game. BUT (secondly), . . . I now can play for about 10 minutes, but it still locks up on me

 

So now what is next???

[LoW_beta 0]

What video card and driver version are you using, Mike?

 

You got the patch from http://eaw.thrustmaster.com/frames.html ?

[Mike Zamarocy 1]

I have the CL Anihilator Pro and using the WHQL 6.62 drivers.

 

As for the patch, I got the 1.2a (unofficial), but that only helps to allow me to play for about 10 minutes now before locking up.

[Splat 0]

Whoops sorry, yup NT4 (slip of the finger) but it works with the standard 1.2 patch and no registry hacks....once upon a time in the dark ages of 98 I had lock up problems due to the sound card drivers which may be a red herring or a clue???

 

Have fun.

[LoW_beta 0]

A few things you could try, at your own risk:

 

I downgraded to 6.31 from NVIDIA to prevent some lockups in a few games I own. You could try that as last resort.

 

Follow the instructions at the following link, has helped some with sound quality/lockup/stutter issues, works with just about any soundcard:

 

http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic...amp;m=514098692

 

If you happen to have a Creative SBLive then try these updated drivers (beta version 5.12.1.3110):

 

http://alive.singnet.com.sg/drivers/wdm0101.htm

[Mike Zamarocy 1]

WOW! That one about the DEBUG LEVEL being on is TRUE! I never realized that, nor would many others!!! So I set it to off. Will test it later for sure! Might also be the thing to fix the MW4 problems as well!!!!

[Mike Zamarocy 1]

Oh well, the DEBUG part still did not solve EAW locking up. I still get to only play for about 5-10 minutes, or . . . . it does seem to lockup mainly when I shoot the guns.

 

I wonder if B17 is much better anyway???

 

Next I will try the DX8.0a to see if that helps??????

[jrj 0]

Dell Dimension 4100

PIII 1GHz

GeForce GTS 2 Pro

Santa Cruz Turtle Beach Sound card

 

My friend I am having the exact same problems with appcompat.exe and setwin95.

[jrj 0]

Actually, let me amend that. I can run for about 3 minutes using the appcompat.exe method then it just freezes, sound image everything and I have to reboot. When I upgraded my GeForce Drivers and my sound card drivers and got a GeForce tweaker with optimum settings (I don't know which one helped) but I went from about 30 seconds to 3 minutes of flying time.

 

When I try to run setwin95 I get an errormessage "imgcfg is not a recognizable command or filename..."

[Mike Zamarocy 1]

I haven't tried EAW in awhile, but as the new QfixApps ver2 is out (search the archives here, someone posted a link in answer to my question) and got M1TP2 to work, its possible that it will let EAW also. As a matter of fact, I think the guy posted that it even let him play EAW online too!

 

Here it is:

 

http://www.ntcompatible.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/001887.html

[DJ Ice 0]

Anybody got a link for this hard to find European Air War v1.2a patch...I've looked all over and can only find v1.2 patch ?????