Help with SP2: Modern battles!!!

mlomax · Post by **mlomax** » Sat Sep 27, 2003 8:38 am

I know this is the wrong game forum, but I do know that there are alot of smart people here when it comes to anything Steel Panthers. My problem is that I'm trying to install Steel Panthers 2: Modern Battles on to my laptop. My OS is windows XP Professional. Can some one give me a hand on the right steps to install this.

Thanks
Mike

chief · Post by **chief** » Sat Sep 27, 2003 9:27 am

I suspect your gonna have to load it in the "compatibility" mode. Then again if its a DOS game I'd have to say no can do in XP.

Les_the_Sarge_9_1 · Post by **Les_the_Sarge_9_1** » Sat Sep 27, 2003 3:55 pm

SP2 is of course basically SPMBT and the folks at SP Cammo that can be reached indirectly through the Steel Panthers forum at Wargamer might have a solution for you.

If I was asked, I would say that SP2 might not play in XP but SPMBT might.
I know there are some that claim it can be done, but I am not one of the ones that knows how.

Your problem might be solvable, My suggestion, is to post an inquiry at Wargamer under Steel Panthers, and specifically seek the aid of a SP Cammo member.

Charles2222 · Post by **Charles2222** » Sat Sep 27, 2003 5:53 pm

mlomax wrote:I know this is the wrong game forum, but I do know that there are alot of smart people here when it comes to anything Steel Panthers. My problem is that I'm trying to install Steel Panthers 2: Modern Battles on to my laptop. My OS is windows XP Professional. Can some one give me a hand on the right steps to install this.

Thanks
Mike

Adding to what the others have already said, and going the route of the following the SPWW2/SPMBT line, I'd suggest you read over instructions at the Spcamo website: http://linetap.com/www/drg/SPCamo.htm

junk2drive · Post by **junk2drive** » Sun Sep 28, 2003 6:09 am

I have spww2 working as of today. follow the directions for set up to a "T". the only thing that i had trouble with is the pictures they give u are for win 98 or me. winxp is similar enough to figure out. i run it in compatibility mode (win 95) but some people dont.
the "[" key and the "]" key speed up or slow down the scrolling. if that isnt slow enough run a streaming audio from the internet, it will tie up the cpu enough to slow it down, lol
after you get it to at least work, your mouse pointer will probably not move fast or far. find and download mousectl program. unzip to c: drive or first drive where windows xp lives.
go to start button, then search. search for files and folders. type autoexec.nt it should show it in your c:\windows\system32. double click on that. it will popup a window saying what the h*** do u want to open this with. click select program from list. find note pad on the list. it should open a window with a bunch of text. follow the directions on the sp camo page for running spmbt/spww2 in xp adding the lines it says to. close the windows and enjoy.

Charles2222 · Post by **Charles2222** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 1:52 am

junk2drive wrote:I have spww2 working as of today. follow the directions for set up to a "T". the only thing that i had trouble with is the pictures they give u are for win 98 or me. winxp is similar enough to figure out. i run it in compatibility mode (win 95) but some people dont.
the "[" key and the "]" key speed up or slow down the scrolling. if that isnt slow enough run a streaming audio from the internet, it will tie up the cpu enough to slow it down, lol
after you get it to at least work, your mouse pointer will probably not move fast or far. find and download mousectl program. unzip to c: drive or first drive where windows xp lives.
go to start button, then search. search for files and folders. type autoexec.nt it should show it in your c:\windows\system32. double click on that. it will popup a window saying what the h*** do u want to open this with. click select program from list. find note pad on the list. it should open a window with a bunch of text. follow the directions on the sp camo page for running spmbt/spww2 in xp adding the lines it says to. close the windows and enjoy.

From what I've read the mousectl program doesn't work unless you have a Microsoft mouse. I have an A4Tech mouse and it did no good. I went to the A4 driver website and then used the program, I believe it's called mousedos, which ends up doing some good, but still not where you want it to be.

Fallschirmjager · Post by **Fallschirmjager** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 2:01 am

I have xp pro and SPMBT works fine for me...I didnt even have to run that dumb setup instructions they try to make you go through

I just downloaded it and installed it and started playing

But...I couldnt for the life of me get it to run on my win 98 machine...so go figure

Charles2222 · Post by **Charles2222** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 2:21 am

Fallschirmjager wrote:I have xp pro and SPMBT works fine for me...I didnt even have to run that dumb setup instructions they try to make you go through

I just downloaded it and installed it and started playing

But...I couldnt for the life of me get it to run on my win 98 machine...so go figure

Maybe your XP is really a 98, and your 98 is really an XP

My Xp worked fine with it, other than excess speed on a faster processor, but the mouse was the only difference.

I do have a question though.....does anyone have an XP with SPWAW running on it, without any mouse slowness, I'm talking just straight install? I haven't downloaded SPWAW on this XP, and I'm not entirely sure I'll be willing to deal with SPWW2 in that state for very long. I'm guessing that SPWAW being a Windows base will keep the mouse from being a problem. Thanks.

Fallschirmjager · Post by **Fallschirmjager** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 3:28 am

Spwaw runs without any problems for me

Charles2222 · Post by **Charles2222** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 4:38 am

Fallschirmjager wrote:Spwaw runs without any problems for me

Yours doesn't count, since you really have a 98.

chief · Post by **chief** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 7:19 am

I have it on my XP laptop and the only problem I have is vehicles/troops and such flying across the screen, great for aircraft though, oh yeah, its in win 95 compatibility mode. Its really playable if you move one hex at a time.

Fallschirmjager · Post by **Fallschirmjager** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 8:24 am

Charles_22 wrote:Yours doesn't count, since you really have a 98.

Heh

I have it on my XP laptop and the only problem I have is vehicles/troops and such flying across the screen, great for aircraft though, oh yeah, its in win 95 compatibility mode. Its really playable if you move one hex at a time.

Did you try messing with movement delay in the preferences screen?

On my xp labtop I dont run it in any compatibility mode...I never had too

Baron von Beer · Post by **Baron von Beer** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 11:46 am

Have both WW2 and MBT running on an XP machine. Didn't even have to use a shortcut. Just runs from the start menu. I think it is largely dependant on your video card WRT ease of getting it to run. On my brothers machine, I just rebooted, hit F8 to bring up the boot menu, and ran in VGA mode. Ran fine that way (And when done, you can just re-adjust your desktop to go back to your prefered res/color depth. (VGA boots in 256 color, but that is all MBT uses anyways) As far as refresh rate goes, try unirefresh, linked from SP Cammos site. I set it so whenever the DOS mode loads, the refresh utility runs as well, setting 85hz. (I find 60 hz awfull... very flickery on a 19" screen... )

As far as units making the Millenium Falcon seem slow, use the move speed setting in the preferences menu, and you should be good to go. (And you can adjust scrolling in the MBT.ini file as well, incase that too is running at ludicrous speed)

Charles2222 · Post by **Charles2222** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 2:28 pm

Baron von Beer wrote:Have both WW2 and MBT running on an XP machine. Didn't even have to use a shortcut. Just runs from the start menu. I think it is largely dependant on your video card WRT ease of getting it to run. On my brothers machine, I just rebooted, hit F8 to bring up the boot menu, and ran in VGA mode. Ran fine that way (And when done, you can just re-adjust your desktop to go back to your prefered res/color depth. (VGA boots in 256 color, but that is all MBT uses anyways) As far as refresh rate goes, try unirefresh, linked from SP Cammos site. I set it so whenever the DOS mode loads, the refresh utility runs as well, setting 85hz. (I find 60 hz awfull... very flickery on a 19" screen... )

As far as units making the Millenium Falcon seem slow, use the move speed setting in the preferences menu, and you should be good to go. (And you can adjust scrolling in the MBT.ini file as well, incase that too is running at ludicrous speed)

The mouse movement speed through preferences makes little or no difference at all, or at least in my case. I've also used that '[' and ']' buttons to no avail. I'll have to check the SPWW2 ini file as I'm not sure I tried that. I do have that cpukiller program that slows it down sufficiently, but seeing as getting the full version requires me to send a check through snail mail to Italy, I'm a bit leery. I'm hoping I can trial base another slowdown type program whose base is in the US and if I think I'll be running enough older programs to then buy it.

BTW, I'm running SPWW2 in the 98 compatibility mode through VDMSound. Mine didn't need VDMSound as it turned out, but I used it anyway in the hope that strictly following SPCamo's instructions for XP, might change mouse performance more; it didn't.

junk2drive · Post by **junk2drive** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 5:41 am

i have my download of spwaw copied to a cd rw. i did a full install of xp home not an upgrade. from there i copied my cd to hdd, opened the file and installed. worked fine first time. later i moved it to a different partition,(had to redo my desktop shortcut and delete from start menu) made another install for h2h, then repeated for mega camp. so i have three installs working just fine with the adjustments in the preference screen.
then on to spww2......

Charles2222 · Post by **Charles2222** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 5:30 pm

junk2drive wrote:i have my download of spwaw copied to a cd rw. i did a full install of xp home not an upgrade. from there i copied my cd to hdd, opened the file and installed. worked fine first time. later i moved it to a different partition,(had to redo my desktop shortcut and delete from start menu) made another install for h2h, then repeated for mega camp. so i have three installs working just fine with the adjustments in the preference screen.
then on to spww2......

By saying that I'm assuming the mouse worked well; SPWW2 is another matter.

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