tried mechvm, an xp virtual box and a 98 virtual box, all fails, please help

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tried mechvm, an xp virtual box and a 98 virtual box, all fails, please help

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So i'm on windows 10 64bit and trying to get mercs 95 working with the 1.1 patch. i tried mechVM first but when i try to run the windows version it just gives me a "windows process manager has stopped responding" erroe window from windows.

i tried windows xp with the hook method, and that works as long as i don't apply any patches to it. i'm told that changing from software emulation to primary display adapter in the video settings in the game might fix this, but whenever i click that option the selection immidiatly jumps back to software emulation. anyway when it crashes it says it's unable to find cd audio device and asks to close all programs using audio. this is followed by another window saying "attempting to shut down from fatal error". sometimes i'm kicked back to the mission selection screen and others the game crashes to desktop.

i then tried windows 98 virtual box which seems to work ok but for whatever reson won't take the CD and insists i need to put the cd in the drive... problem there might be i'm using a mounted image and not a physical CD because that's currently unvilable to me.

i'm good with fixing whichever of these trainwrecks you think you can help with, the only thing is it has to be a windows version patched to 1.1 with the dynamic salvage, if it's not i might aswell just play the dos version on mechVM... i REALLY want the dynamic salvage.

anyway thanks for the help guys, i tried to look for these issues here but didn't seem to find anything, so sorry i missed something.
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Re: tried mechvm, an xp virtual box and a 98 virtual box, all fails, please help

Post by Skyfaller »

MechVM supported the Windows editions of MW2 on Windows XP, Vista and 7. Somewhere between Windows 8 and 10, something broke, and I haven't had the time to figure exactly what went wrong. At this point, I'm happy MW2 works with the DOS editions. Not sure I'll have the time to fix all the issues with the Windows editions, sorry.
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Re: tried mechvm, an xp virtual box and a 98 virtual box, all fails, please help

Post by Nitaihatr1 »

hey man i really appriciate the work with mech VM. thanks for trying at least, let's just hope we get some remakes for these games at some point, running them is becomeing impossibole and with the tech we have today it'd be amazing... for now thougth i got myself a new pc and i'll try to get it all working again from scratch, fresh install of windows might help out... once again, thank you
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