We've Fixed the Artillery Screen - Guaranteed!!!!

[Alby]

ORIGINAL: VikingNo2

Hello all some may remember me, I have been away from the game for a long time what is new

Hell Ya You used to kick my butt in PBEM all the time LOL!!
how ya been?

[JJU57]

Please ignore the below. I found the fix elsewhere on this site under troubleshooting. It was Windows 7 explorer that caused the problem.

I have an issue with the main menu screen graphics. I tried almost all the setting in the compatibility option. Windows recommended I use just XP SP2. I even went back to Windows98 and changed the color to just 256. I did this on the SPWAW.exe file but also the autorun and mech.exe. I then deleted the Matrix version and went to the Depot and downloaded the Enhanced FR Full 92016) edition. Same issue. Again tried different compatibility modes on mech.exe.

No movies start. which is OK but the screen color is terrible. The screen does not reder where only the menu items are actually vivisble.

What is strange is if I start a game and then quit it seems to correct the screen problems. But as I'm reading the campaign notes it reverts back to the base screen where the notes are no longer visible. This means the screen graphics are resetting.

I know it has to be some incompatibility with my Nvidia graphics. I'm on Windows 7, Intel i5-4690K CPU, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce GTX-1070 video card.

[Red_L.E.D.]

ORIGINAL: JJU57
.. but the screen color is terrible. The screen does not render where only the menu items are actually visible ...

Just a small note:

Steel Panthers World at War suffers from corrupted color palette on Windows Vista and Windows 7. This is due to Windows Aero that is used by those operating systems. The rough solution is to kill explorer.exe while running the game but another possibility is to use a ddraw wrapper. For example narzoul's DDrawCompat (from github) or DxWnd (from SourceForge).

On the other hand Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 display SPWaW correctly again since they do not use Windows Aero anymore.

[Falcon1]

The Depot has had the fix for the corrupted color palette for years now.
Please see it here:

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/spwawde ... i-t29.html

[mainsworthy]

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[pete61]

I still cannot download the patch from the depot site and cannot find what in my security setting might be preventing it. Is there anywhere else this is available?
thanks,
Pete

[Major_Mess]

Pete:

PM sent


MM

[John Lansford]

I know I'm late to this thread, but I just got a new copy of Steel Panthers that would run on my more modern computer and found the "can't get artillery to work" bug and went looking for a patch. Found this thread but the patch isn't available any longer. Any chance I can get a copy of it to fix the game? Thanks!

[tomlowshang]

Patched mech.exe is here: https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/spwawde ... -t277.html

[John Lansford]

Patched mech.exe is here: https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/spwawde ... -t277.html

No, I found that location earlier, nothing will download from there now.

[tomlowshang]

Works for me. Something is blocking your access to the page. Others have reported that problem before but I don't know the solution, sorry.

[mainsworthy]

if I needed the file, I would download a fresh browser like chrome or firefox or others, then your cashe and cookies wont block you, then delete browser if you wanted, but its handy having an extra browser

[GeneralClausewitz]

Welcome back! Do you by chance play by email?

[loki1944]

Forget about all those other attempts at fixing the Artillery Screen.



I am so proud to announce that The Depot is releasing a solution that has finally once and for all fixed the notorious Artillery Screen bug that has plagued this fine game for many years now.
A small patch that fixes a few lines of buggy code.
We have been testing this patch for a month now, and I can report to you that it works on every machine we've tried it on.
Intel / AMD / multi-core / even single-core / Win 10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / XP - it just works. [8D]

This patch, on top of solving the Arty problem - as if that isn't enough!!, also fixes the super-fast scrolling on these other screens:
- Paratroop setup Screen
- Glider setup Screen
- Infiltration setup Screen
- Edit Victory Objectives Screen
- C&C Objectives Screen
these following items had to be dealt with in another fashion, these ones will have a different (but OK) scrolling speed
- Build Mines/Barbed Wire/Tank Trap Screen
- Set Front Line Screen
- Entrenchment Screen
- Load/Unload Units Screen

Wooo Hooo!!!!!! is all I can say, other than shout out a big Honkin' Thank You to the two gentlemen that looked into the problem and came up with the fix - Riitaoja2 from this site, and Ghotik, the developer of DxWnd.


Also, to take advantage of this impressive breakthrough, a game patch with some minor OOB, graphics and Scenario fixes has been bundled up to be offered to you at the same time. We were also given permission by Mr. Erik Cumps to include his fine program - War Cab in our new release.


So, for you the discerning Gamer The Depot has now provided three options to enjoy this game as it should be.

A brand new complete installation of the most up to date Enhanced mod of SPWaW along with all the other bits and pieces.
The Depot are calling this new iteration of the game SPWaW Enhanced-FR Full Install

If you have the SPWaW 2016 download already on your HD, we have a patch file that will bump that version up to this new and improved Steel Panthers: World at War.

The Full Game and/or the patch for SPWaW 2016 can both be found HERE!!!

Annnnnnnnnnd, to also allow the many players that prefer the stock 8.403 game (along with all those folks that have bought the Generals Edition over the years) we took the time to patch the stock 8.403 mech.exe and you can find that version right HERE!!


I am soooooo happy!!!!
(and I think you will be too) [:)]



Come visit The Depot, download this and then go blow something up.


cheers to all of you

Major Mess

Where is "The Depot"; I don't see a link and google search is not helping me.

[tomlowshang]

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/spwawdepot/

[WG]

Patched mech.exe is here: https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/spwawde ... -t277.html

I had tried playing the stock game earlier this year and had no idea that this existed. It fixes it. Thank you so much!

[arendt61]

Hi, Major Mess (great name!)

I recently purchased SPWW2 but it does seem to be loading. Shrapnel Games support directed me to your "Fix the Artillery Screen" because you ight have a patch to help me. However, I clicked on your Patch to download, but I only saw a download button for other apps. Can you help?

arendt61

[Major_Mess]

Hi!

The patch we created was for Matrix Games SPWaW.

I have NO IDEA why Shrapnel would steer you towards this patch.
Could it be a touch of Game Envy??? ha ha ha

In spite of what some Shrapnel fanboys on this site proclaim, the Matrix version is better.

cheers
MM

[Zovs]

And yet the Matrix Games version of SPWaW does not run on modern windows without some black magic trickery. Whereas SPWW2 and SPMBT work out of the box just fine in modern windows environments.