The Syndicate

Epignosis wrote: ↑Tue Dec 10, 2019 7:53 pm

boo wrote: ↑Tue Dec 10, 2019 6:15 pm

Epignosis wrote: ↑Thu Nov 28, 2019 6:38 pm I know Mechwarriors 5 is due to come out next month. Yes, I am excited. Yes, I'm even more excited that it's a single player game.

However, I am still sad that my Mechwarriors 4 games don't work on Windows 10 and even now won't play on my old Windows 7 PC (it used to work fine years ago, but now it won't start at all).

I declare I am going to buy a damn cheap PC with Windows XP on it and scratch my Mechwarriors 4 Mercenaries itch. Screw the kids' Christmas.

If you have it installed on your Win10 machine you should just be able to Compatibility Mode it:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/hel ... compatible

It isn't that simple. There's an entire thread (still current) devoted to this task:

https://www.reddit.com/r/mechwarrior/co ... indows_10/

Ah bummer. Yea, that's quite the workaround they've come up, but M$ has a tendency to unintentionally break that kind of stuff with every update they push, which based on the update feed does seem to be the case here. And unless it's better than it used to be, having Direct Play is a pretty big redflag to me that you'll wind up spending more time trying to make the damn thing work than actually playing. Plus he suggests using virtualbox and setting up an XP VM there, which I don't like because virtualbox is pretty garbage (I mean, free, so that's nice. but for a damn good reason).

Epignosis wrote: ↑Thu Nov 28, 2019 6:38 pm I know Mechwarriors 5 is due to come out next month. Yes, I am excited. Yes, I'm even more excited that it's a single player game.

However, I am still sad that my Mechwarriors 4 games don't work on Windows 10 and even now won't play on my old Windows 7 PC (it used to work fine years ago, but now it won't start at all).

I declare I am going to buy a damn cheap PC with Windows XP on it and scratch my Mechwarriors 4 Mercenaries itch. Screw the kids' Christmas.

If you have it installed on your Win10 machine you should just be able to Compatibility Mode it:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/hel ... compatible

She's a bad person for either lying about Pokemon Yellow not being hers, or stealing it from her sister. 0/10, would recommend divorce.