tie fighter collector's cd

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Nov 01, 2003 11:51 am

i can't get tie fighter collector's cd to run under windows 98, 2000 or xp. it installs ok, i choose no sound to avoid any sound card compatibility issues and start the game. it says something like "high resolution modes will not be available" and just quits. i've tried abandon loader and winxp compatibility tools, all for nothing. it's one of my favourite games, please help. thanks.

John The Ax · Post by **John The Ax** » Sun Nov 02, 2003 10:47 am

Lower your resolution to 800*600. Or perhaps lower.

Post by **wardrich** » Sun Nov 02, 2003 10:19 pm

Or even try lowering your colour resolution.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 7:37 am

thanks. i'll try. in the meantime, i got myself a dos 6.22 system disk (www.bootdisk.com) and reformatted (partition magic) my c drive to fat....so now tie fighter works perfectly. any chances i can make my 64pci sound blaster work under dos? also, since the gameport is on the sound blaster, i get the feeling that in order to use my perfectly usable 10 years old joystick, i would have to get my sound blaster to work first. any ideas?

Post by **wardrich** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 5:22 pm

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Is it straight DOS? Or dual booted?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Nov 04, 2003 1:34 am

it's a fat (yes straight dos) partition, but it's a dual boot system (windows 98 and windows 2000). that doesn't matter though because i use a dos system disk to create a true dos enviroment.

i also tried lowering the resolution and, guess what? tie fighter now works under windows 2000! it also works under vmware in windows 2000. all i have to do now is to figure out why the hell it doesn't read the joystick which windows 2000 properly installed and calibrated. maybe i have to do it through vdmsound.

bozzo · Post by **bozzo** » Tue Nov 04, 2003 2:50 pm

i've since gotten tie fighter to work with vdmsound in win2000 - it works now with sound and joystick. lowering the resolution also works with windows 98 however although i have "legacy" drivers installed for my sb 64 pci, tie fighter seems to ignore it (legacy driver says it emulates sb pro which is supported by tie fighter). any ideas why?

486 player · Post by **486 player** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 11:13 am

setup/setsound ran? Correct IRQ/Dma?

bozzo · Post by **bozzo** » Mon Nov 10, 2003 1:24 am

yeah actually it's the setup program (imuse.exe) that fails to recognize the sb legacy drivers. various irqs and dmas reserved in bios for legacy devices. no luck.