SteelPanthersWAW

[chief]

Black cat:
I'm not on my XP machine at this time, but when I originally tried to operate SPwaw on XP it didn't fill my screen, but it worked fine, so someone told me to use the expand (may have wrong name) feature of XP and I did and it filled the screen, it does distort the text somewhat but with these old eyes the expansion was great asset. Is 32/100, 32 colors if so run/try 16. Have you tried compatibility mode ? I'm all out of guesses at this time. Good luck

Well sorry I do have another possible, can you put in a win9x partition in your setup ? that may do the trick, no guarantees though.

[Black Cat]

Tried all of the above ( except partioning the HD ) and nothing works.

The Game does not run in XP with standard drivers and settings with any consistency ( as can be seen from all the people with problems ) for folks and I think it`s just plan wrong for Matrix to say it does. [8|]

[RBWhite]

I have found through hours of trouble shooting, what I think I have found is that the Indigo Rose programs used to develope spwaw 8.0 through 8.20, Autoplay & Setup Factory are not certfied to be used with WinXP. Also Matrix might want check, when they used WinZip to compress the spwaw program they may have corrupted some files. I think I got a zip file read error on the autoplay application in spwaw 8.20

[Black Cat]

ORIGINAL: RBWhite

I have found through hours of trouble shooting, what I think I have found is that the Indigo Rose programs used to develope spwaw 8.0 through 8.20, Autoplay & Setup Factory are not certfied to be used with WinXP. Also Matrix might want check, when they used WinZip to compress the spwaw program they may have corrupted some files. I think I got a zip file read error on the autoplay application in spwaw 8.20

It would be nice if Matrix checked that out..... I`m still waiting now going on 3 weeks for my CD disk of the Game[>:]

[RBWhite]

Marc:

I gather by your title you work for Matrix Games?

I completly understand that Steel Panthers is freeware, but somewhere someone is profitting.

Many people have been following steel panthers since its inception myself included.

Steel Panthers 8.0 through 8.20 does not function well at all with WinXP the standard bearer of todays gameing world, and no one from Matrix has stepped up to confirm it. Many members with XP have been asking for some help and being a new member I've asked for help, I'm disappointed that none has come from Matrix.

I have seen a few threads addressed to you and your responces are less than minimal. HOW ABOUT SOME HELP[:D]

[Black Cat]

ORIGINAL: RBWhite

Marc:

I gather by your title you work for Matrix Games?

I completly understand that Steel Panthers is freeware, but somewhere someone is profitting.

Many people have been following steel panthers since its inception myself included.

Steel Panthers 8.0 through 8.20 does not function well at all with WinXP the standard bearer of todays gameing world, and no one from Matrix has stepped up to confirm it. Many members with XP have been asking for some help and being a new member I've asked for help, I'm disappointed that none has come from Matrix.

I have seen a few threads addressed to you and your responces are less than minimal. HOW ABOUT SOME HELP[:D]

SPWAW from Matrix is hardly " freeware" I paid $70 for it from DR. I agree that support could be better by far.

What`s funny is that the Steel Panthers Camo group has no problem getting their Versions of SPWAW and MBT to run with XP and their stuff Is Free.

[RBWhite]

Black Cat:

Are you refering to Steel Panthers World At War General Edition for $69.99?

I'm talking about the freeware version of SPWAW 8.20 that is free. I wouldn't pay anybody $70, for any game these days. Theres non worth that price. I might pay $19.95, about the same price as a nose hair trimming kit as seen on TV. Send it back for a full refund

[Marc von Martial]

ORIGINAL: RBWhite

Marc:

I gather by your title you work for Matrix Games?

I completly understand that Steel Panthers is freeware, but somewhere someone is profitting.

Many people have been following steel panthers since its inception myself included.

Steel Panthers 8.0 through 8.20 does not function well at all with WinXP the standard bearer of todays gameing world, and no one from Matrix has stepped up to confirm it. Many members with XP have been asking for some help and being a new member I've asked for help, I'm disappointed that none has come from Matrix.

I have seen a few threads addressed to you and your responces are less than minimal. HOW ABOUT SOME HELP[:D]

We´re working on this. The problem is it´s not reproducable, some have the problem some not, with identical hardware and drivers. The vast majority has absolutly no problems running it under XP (without any tweaks or mech.exe direct start). For example it runs like a charm on my three XP machines (all with different hardware, one of them a Laptop).

[Marc von Martial]

What`s funny is that the Steel Panthers Camo group has no problem getting their Versions of SPWAW and MBT to run with XP and their stuff Is Free.

Not "out of the box" I would like to mention [;)]

SPWAW is free, you pay for the Megacampaigns.

However, like I sayed we´re working on this.

[Voriax]

ORIGINAL: Marc Schwanebeck

What`s funny is that the Steel Panthers Camo group has no problem getting their Versions of SPWAW and MBT to run with XP and their stuff Is Free.

And last time I tried, I could not get them work on a XP box. Things may have changed since that but as I'm not interested abour MBT...

Voriax

[Marc von Martial]

I'm not interested abour MBT...

I like it a lot, it´s a cool modern version of SP.

[RBWhite]

Marc:

I completly understand that programs fail and systems fault and at times you can't reproduce the problems. Been there myself many time with dds climate control systems.

Would it help if all those having problems running SPWAW 8.20 on WinXP submit their system configurations to matrix through the forum.

Service packs installed
Motherboard & bios
Video Card, bios & current drivers
Etc. Etc........

[Marc von Martial]

ORIGINAL: RBWhite

Marc:

I completly understand that programs fail and systems fault and at times you can't reproduce the problems. Been there myself many time with dds climate control systems.

Would it help if all those having problems running SPWAW 8.20 on WinXP submit their system configurations to matrix through the forum.

Service packs installed
Motherboard & bios
Video Card, bios & current drivers
Etc. Etc........

I have scannned through gazillions od DirectX dialog files allready, didn´t find anything that lokked like a clue [:(]

[RBWhite]

Marc:

I have received two error messages form WinXP, when I was trying to get Spwaw 8.20 to work.

1. Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library. It refers to an application from Indigo Rose: iun6002.exe abnormal termination.

2. Zip file error message, Dynazip error: zip file read error that is associated with the Indigo Rose Autoplay application.

Any help ?[:)]

[Seraphim2150]

I keep trying to run the game but I keep getting this message:

SPWAW caused an invalid page fault in
module SPWAW.EXE at 0187:00401bda.
Registers:
EAX=49203032 CS=0187 EIP=00401bda EFLGS=00010202
EBX=006d0000 SS=018f ESP=007dfbf8 EBP=007dfe38
ECX=00b10eb0 DS=018f ESI=00b10eb0 FS=56af
EDX=00000002 ES=018f EDI=00000000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 10 50 ff 52 08 89 7e 20 8b 46 18 3b c7 74 09
Stack dump:
00000000 00b10eb0 0040180b 00000000 007dfe38 4141b865 00000001 00000000 00000401 00000300 ebeae9e8 efeeedec f3f2f1f0 d7f6f5f4 fbfaf9f8 dffefdfc

Whats going on?

[Voriax]

Seraphim, can you start the game from quick start?

Voriax

[RBWhite]

Seraphim2150:

That appears to be a sound card problem.

Are you using a creative labs sound card like Audigy?

You may need to reload the program that came with your sound card or the system disk that came with your computer or you can go to Creative Labs.com to get the most current drivers.
And see what happens.

[Billy2003s]

Hi all,
wonder if anyone can assist?
Playing against a friend who tells me he can see all my dispositions as his
Artillery comes in. All my units are lit up and he can see where I am. Is there a parch/setting to prevent this.
we are playing by email.
Had something similar occur when we played Steel Panthers 3 but am sure there was a patch to resolve this.
can anyone help.

thanks
Billy

[Frank W.]

have all you ppl . that have probs tried to delete the steel.prf file in the save folder ?

it sometimes causes problems ( while normaly not with starting the game )

also i heard that win xp SP2 sometimes causes problems.

i would also recommend ppl. who still play such "old games" to
make a 2nd partion with win98 SE. i remind you that the SP engine
is really old nowadays !

i run win98 SE on 2pc´s and don´t have any trouble with SPWAW.
also i could run the SPMBT game well. the only serious error
i encounter is that in email games the save file is corrupt...

any solution to the last prob ?