MechWarrior 2: Resource Forum

Did you ever run MechPrep?

Nevertheless, you MUST run MechPrep at least once in your computer's lifetime or the game will fail once a mission begins.
http://www.mech2.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=514

Maybe this explains the white screens some players are experiencing.

I'm pretty sure that ...

Ah, got it. I'll give it a shot after work!

Thanks for the response! I'm in the process of trying out the 3DFX emulator (you're talking about zeckensack's Glide wrapper, right?). I can't seem to get it to make a profile for Mercs, but even setting the globals all the way down doesn't seem to help much.

Another peculiarity that I noticed in ...

Man, I feel really bad for constituting literally 100% of this forum's activity in the past week, but I'm absolutely determined to get this running properly, reasons being dynamic salvage and the fact that I got sick of my oh-so-meticulously outfitted Atlases dying to the overweight bugs.

So after ...

After a few days of messing with my computer, I've finally gotten 31st Century Combat, Ghost Bear's Legacy, and Mercenaries all running pretty flawlessly on DOS via MechVM, thanks in no small part to the people here. However, I heard that patch 1.1 of Mercs introduces dynamic salvage, which I think ...

Sorry for double-posting, but just wanted to let you know that I've got it working now (well, with the weird little inverted mouse problem but that's negligible). Turns out there was something bad in one of the image files; I just re-wrote them and everything's hunky-dory!

Now if you'll excuse me ...

All right, I'll give that a shot, but be advised that I'm going to have to look up what about half of what you just said means, so there's a 50-50 chance I'll be back.

Thanks for the pointer (eh, no pun intended) on the mouse too. I thought I'd checked the control settings thoroughly, but ...

Hey all! I recently had to make the Mac-Windows migration for my MechWarrior 2 needs since my new computer doesn't run Classic. So I recently got MW2, GBL, and Mercs for DOS and found a few guides for setup. I browsed the forums here and watched simxMMPD's YouTube tutorial, and I've got it pretty ...