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Problem Runnig WiR
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2002 12:58 am
by Swordolight2000
WiR Works perfectly fine on my desktop but i have a problem with WiR on my labtop its a Win 98 Pentiuem ( not Pentiuem 2 or anything just plane old Pentieum heh <img src="smile.gif" border="0"> ) and everytime i run the game it works good until i get to the scenario part some of the letter are all unreadable and i have found out its all the numbers, like say 57th Army but on the labtop it would say *DF(Army but the *DF won't show up its just all these werid things i can't read i think its computer language but i don't know, and i went to help and check the fonts for the program but even after that it din't help <img src="frown.gif" border="0"> i put the setting all as i have on my desktop and still won't work <img src="frown.gif" border="0">
I NEED HELP!!
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2002 2:13 pm
by Ed Cogburn
Originally posted by Swordolight2000:
WiR Works perfectly fine on my desktop but i have a problem with WiR on my labtop
Is your laptop a Compaq? Those machines and some others have a problem where the video BIOS is not 100% compatible with the EGA/VGA standard and this results in scrambled fonts in places. If this is the problem the only solution is getting a BIOS update from the laptop maker, and that assumes they admit a compatibility problem exists and have a fix for it.
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2002 8:03 pm
by Swordolight2000
Nope its a Gateway 2000
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2002 8:07 pm
by Swordolight2000
Can somebody tell me all the requirement for WiR?
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2002 7:14 am
by Swordolight2000
Can Somebody PLEASEEEEEEEE help me?
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2002 1:53 pm
by Ed Cogburn
Originally posted by Swordolight2000:
Can Somebody PLEASEEEEEEEE help me?
Don't know what else to tell you. If its the font problem that's so common, then its an unavoidable hardware problem. This has nothing to do with fonts under Windows. The game relies on hardware fonts that are supposed to be in ROM. If they aren't, then any old game that relies on EGA ROM fonts won't work, like WiR. See if Gateway has any Video BIOS updates for that model. If its modern, the BIOS will probably be in FLASH ROM, so an update is easy to distribute. Ask their tech support if that model has any known compatibility problems with the EGA/VGA standard, including providing all required fonts in ROM. Other than that, you're probably out of luck, getting another laptop is probably not an option right?
Sorry.
WiR requirements are pathetically small. Any machine of the last decade (with 100% compatible EGA/VGA) can run it.
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2002 6:03 am
by Swordolight2000
Thanks