New to MECHVM, having trouble with Mercenaries campaign
Posted: Sun May 31, 2020 7:49 am
So first of all, I want to say that being able to play this game after almost 20 years has been an absolute pleasure! I remember Mechwarrior 2 and Mechwarrior 2 Mercenaries being my favorite games as a kid. That being said...
I am running Mercenaries in MechVM, on a Windows 7 (Service pack 1) machine from 2014. After figuring out some bugs, I am still having trouble...but here is what I came across-
On first install, the game wouldn't play correctly unless I did "run as administrator" (I don't know why my computer doesn't consider me, the only user, to NOT be the admin.. odd). If I DIDN'T do this, campaign missions wouldn't launch, and instant action missions would result in all mechs being dropped in the same exact spot and the mission would end in a failure right after power-up. After this, doing "run as administrator" seemed to fix the issue and I just kept up this way (.....until recently, where those two problems seem to have gone away regardless of running it regularly or as an admin...but running as admin or not doing so will change what save file I see in the first slot upon loading..).
Ok, well that aside.. I was able to run through a good amount of the Mercenary Commander side, until at some point (say, a mission or two after the Arena combat mission...Solaris Championship?)...missions stopped loading and would always give me a "Page Fault" error on a black screen and go back to the mission aftermath screen as a "mission complete" while advancing to the next mission in the line. The really odd part though, is that when it does this, the aftermath screen shows the same objective screen over and over, despite advancing the mission (it shows the summary for the mission where you have the Kodiak and have to either protect the dropship and go to nav Alpha or destroy the dropship and protecting mechs...which is, also oddly, one of the missions that actually worked throughout this string of those that wouldn't work). Does anyone have any thoughts? Is there a file I need to dump somewhere? I was bummed that I got that far and couldn't play any further.
I know this is a very small community, and I am in the minority of 30-somethings who would love to see this game re-released with modern bells and whistles (something akin to the Sonic Mania game I have on my PS4 which was a fantastic modern follow-up for all the old Sega versions)..but alas, I know it will never happen..and I need to keep trying to get these games to work well on my modern hardware (....or dig up the old computer they ran great on..)
I am running Mercenaries in MechVM, on a Windows 7 (Service pack 1) machine from 2014. After figuring out some bugs, I am still having trouble...but here is what I came across-
On first install, the game wouldn't play correctly unless I did "run as administrator" (I don't know why my computer doesn't consider me, the only user, to NOT be the admin.. odd). If I DIDN'T do this, campaign missions wouldn't launch, and instant action missions would result in all mechs being dropped in the same exact spot and the mission would end in a failure right after power-up. After this, doing "run as administrator" seemed to fix the issue and I just kept up this way (.....until recently, where those two problems seem to have gone away regardless of running it regularly or as an admin...but running as admin or not doing so will change what save file I see in the first slot upon loading..).
Ok, well that aside.. I was able to run through a good amount of the Mercenary Commander side, until at some point (say, a mission or two after the Arena combat mission...Solaris Championship?)...missions stopped loading and would always give me a "Page Fault" error on a black screen and go back to the mission aftermath screen as a "mission complete" while advancing to the next mission in the line. The really odd part though, is that when it does this, the aftermath screen shows the same objective screen over and over, despite advancing the mission (it shows the summary for the mission where you have the Kodiak and have to either protect the dropship and go to nav Alpha or destroy the dropship and protecting mechs...which is, also oddly, one of the missions that actually worked throughout this string of those that wouldn't work). Does anyone have any thoughts? Is there a file I need to dump somewhere? I was bummed that I got that far and couldn't play any further.
I know this is a very small community, and I am in the minority of 30-somethings who would love to see this game re-released with modern bells and whistles (something akin to the Sonic Mania game I have on my PS4 which was a fantastic modern follow-up for all the old Sega versions)..but alas, I know it will never happen..and I need to keep trying to get these games to work well on my modern hardware (....or dig up the old computer they ran great on..)