Erm... Kret... This is the problem. Pushing the mouse forwards makes the controls say 'pull up'. As a practicing Elite player, the pull-back-to-pull-up control setting is (probably more than) second nature. Btw... Thankyou. Come again. @Slaughter There doesn't appear to be anything in (any of) the .ini file(s) even mentioning a mouse. Any clues at all? Anyone?
After a little break from the hallowed X-COM titles, i thought i might dust of Interceptor 1.2. So, i jump straight in. Everything's fine till i get to my first mission, and i remember why i put it away in the first place. The mouse. Its backwards... Up isn't supposed to be up. Its supposed to be down. Bah! i can't work under these conditions! Its.... Its.... Its..... Bleedin impossible is what it is! Is there any such thing as a patch, or a little bit of something to stick in an .ini file to flip the mouse x-axis over, or am i just wanting too much?
C-Media seems to have installed a state-of-the-art game repeller in its newer chipsets. Shame, as i've always found them to be quite reliable apart from a few quirks. (Of which this seems to be one, along with Battle Isle.) Fun isn't it?
Well.... BB has prodded us in the right direction at least. It *IS* a sound issue, as i had no problem at all playing in total morbid silence. I tried a few other sound configs - or at least attempted to... As if i select anything other than autodetect the system locks. Weird. Just completeness sake: Autoexec
@echo off
C:\PROGRA~1\GRISOFT\AVGFRE~1\BOOTUP.EXE
PATH C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;C:\MPS\XCOMEDIT\;%PATH%
mode con codepage prepare=((850) C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\ega.cpi)
mode con codepage select=850
keyb uk,,C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\keyboard.sys Config
device=c:\windows\himem.sys
files=40
device=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\display.sys con=(ega,,1)
Country=044,850,C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\country.sys Nothing much going on in there to muck up..... And... I wouldn't touch XP even with someone else's stick... hehe :lol:
DOSBox also fails on the same tactical loading..... My OS is Win98 first edition (Would be SE, but i can't for the life of me find my CD....) Machine: Pentium3 500 192Mb RAM 64Mb KYRO II C-Media C3880 (Full SB16 emu.) What really bugs me tho, is that UFO & TFTD are no problem at all. Just for the record, my last machine (which sadly proceeded to silicon heaven after a breif surge) ran Apoc fine. Dead Machine: Celeron 300 128 Mb RAM 32 Mb Voodoo2 C-Media C3880 Win98 (both 1st then 2nd ed.)
Okay.... This had been mentioned before, but no-one seemed to have any idea on what to do about it. Sequence of events: Install = Fine Setup = No Problem Run Game = Great Buy/Equip vehicles etc. = No worries Reseach = Easy City Combat = Piece-o-cake Tactical Combat = Nope! I can load up my transport, & send it off & wait for it to dock at wherever. But as soon as i select investigate/raid the trouble starts... I get as far as that nice poster that kindly reminds you Don't Get Hurt!, which fades into the squad equip screen. Then the system hangs mid-fade every single time no matter the mission, save/new game, etc..... And, whats more frustrating is that i *know* full well it should work as i have had it running fine before on my Win98 machine. Any help (or even kind words ) would be most appreciated.... Nice forum btw