What is the best way to install Steel Panthers?

[MrsWargamer]

I'm embarrassed to even need to ask this (I should know every permutation under the sun by now).

But, ok, I don't know everything (that was hard to actually type ).

The assumption is you own The Generals Edition and the 4 Mega Campaigns and wish to play them.

Option B is you are a fan of Enhanced.

I'm running either Windows 8 with a bland computer (no separate video card), OR Windows 10, and again, a bland computer no separate video card. The rigs are both fairly recent, just not 'gamer rigs'.

I'm not nearly as tech savvy as I used to think I was.

The Depot is my usual source of great stuff, but I don't pretend to live on their site

I'd just like a walk through on current wisdom.

[RangerJoe]

Don't be embarrassed by asking a question. The only dumb question is the one that has not been asked and the only stupid question is the one that has been asked twice. Clarification is not a stupid question.

That said, I have not played the game since the old DOS version. I don't think that I can help with the install if it is more modern than that.

[Aurelian]

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/spwawde ... 6-t67.html

Where I found it..https://www.wargamer.com/articles/warga ... -10-vol-3/

[Major_Mess]

Yo!!!

MrsWargamer.

In spite of you ignoring my previews failed attempts at courting you, I am here to help you in your time of need.

IMHO, you need two installs
The GE with the Megas,
and Enhanced from the link provide above this response (or below in my sig).

Two different flavours, two succulent varieties of the same delicious fruit. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.



I say this cuz I don't know how seamlessly the old MC's would work with the enhanced mech.exe and OOB's. It would all depend on your level of acceptance of some, lets call them "anomalies".
If ..... you are as I think you are, an adventurous sort well then go for it and dump them files in the MegaCampaign folder of Enhanced. Y'all won't break anything.

I got the MC package for a huge deal last year, and as I've played through them I've pondered the thought of adapting them to Enhanced. That'd be a hella lotta work.
F it I say, play them with 8.403 and be happy.





You might want another install for a Mod I'm close to finishing. Based on a re-vamped interpretation of small arms effectiveness applied throughout all OOB's (backed up by impressive studies that prompted this whole exercise in the first place), I hope to provide a more "realistic" model. Lotsa tidying up of the OOB's on top of that, too much to list. Planes / trucks / boats / rifles / smg's / lmg's / mmgs / hmg's / atr's / rockets - YES!!, rockets too!!! / and bunch of other things I can't recall right now. All looked at with a critical eye, and then adjusted accordingly. Along with movement rates adjusted to keep trucks and whatnot on the roads where they belong, and as a further bonus they're not smashing into buildings anymore!!!. Along with a drastic - but necessary - adjustment in preferences, I think you will discover the SPWaW as it should always have been.
Anyways, that's what I've been doing for the last little while.

cheers

MM

edit: Win 8 or 10, it don't matter.
make sure you D/L the appropriate mech.exe from the Depot to fix the Artillery bug, that's Job #1.

wanna run SPWaW in a window?, lets' talk.

MM

[Lobster]

Maybe a picture of a Panther would be more appropriate instead of a Tiger. [:D]

[RangerJoe]

Isn't a Tiger just a big, striped panthera?

[Lobster]

Ah, that one would be a more modern tank, a Leopard. [:D]

Sorry for the diversion of the topic.

[MrsWargamer]

ORIGINAL: Major_Mess

Yo!!!

MrsWargamer.

In spite of you ignoring my previews failed attempts at courting you, I am here to help you in your time of need.

Smiling here

Ahh, if only I could snare a wargaming husband.

Hey, I might have even already gotten these (I think age is getting to me).
But I'm going to give er a fresh go.

Thanks for the input guys.

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: Lobster

Ah, that one would be a more modern tank, a Leopard. [:D]

Sorry for the diversion of the topic.

The Tiger is a panthera.

Panthera is a genus within the family Felidae that was named and described by Lorenz Oken in 1816 who placed all the spotted cats in this group.[3][2] Reginald Innes Pocock revised the classification of this genus in 1916 as comprising the species tiger (P. tigris), lion (P. leo), jaguar (P. onca), and leopard (P. pardus) on the basis of common cranial features.[4] Results of genetic analysis indicate that the snow leopard (formerly Uncia uncia) also belongs to the Panthera (P. uncia), a classification that was accepted by IUCN Red List assessors in 2008

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panthera

[Major_Mess]

ORIGINAL: Lobster

Maybe a picture of a Panther would be more appropriate instead of a Tiger. [:D]

Hmmmmmm. So True.

Maybe I'll do that for my Mod, like I need another tangent to complete. Thanks .... I think????

MM

[truch1984]

Thanks a lot for this wonderful information. It was really helpful.

[Zovs]

Please kill the spammer...its annoying...

I am still having issues with running SPWAW:Mega on my Windows 10 (although I am running my Windows 10 on a VM).

Is there a document or link on how to run it in a Window or make it full screen? I think there is a program that allows you to play old DOS or Window XP games on Windows 10, but can't recall off the top of my head.

[RangerJoe]

Dosbox for old Dos games. You can even set up a batch file for the parameters to be loaded.

[Zovs]

Thanks RangerJoe, I think I tried DosBox once but it did not work for SPWAW, I think it came out when Windows XP was new, so there must be some old Windows app thing, but I can't recall it's name.

[RangerJoe]

I use Dosbox to run old DOS games on windows 10.

[RangerJoe]

How to Set up a Windows XP Emulator for Windows 10
Enjoy XP's classic looks all over again

https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-set-up- ... 10-4772549

[MrsWargamer]

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

How to Set up a Windows XP Emulator for Windows 10
Enjoy XP's classic looks all over again

https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-set-up- ... 10-4772549

Thanks, that seems like a good option.

[MrsWargamer]

I appear to have succeeded with my install of both General Edition and Enhanced on my 10 rig and an 8 rig.

Many thanks to all.

[Zovs]

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

How to Set up a Windows XP Emulator for Windows 10
Enjoy XP's classic looks all over again

https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-set-up- ... 10-4772549

Thanks RangerJoe!

[RangerJoe]

You two are most welcome.