First post, by Quasi_Stomach
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I can't get Gateway and Homeworld to run on my older PC. Both games run fine on DOSBox on my modern Windows 10 PC. Gateway has no error message and just returns to the DOS prompt almost immediately, but Homeworld specifically mentions "Critical Error: unable to initialize graphics."
This computer, (a Compaq Prolinea 4/25s), has trouble with several games that try to detect the graphics card. Here's a transcription of the output of HWInfo
Video Chipset: Tseng Labs ET4000
Video Card: Unknown
Video Memory Size: 1024 KBytes of DRAM
Video Card Bus: 32-bit
Video RAMDAC: Unknown of Standard VGA
Video BIOS Manufacturer: Compaq
Video BIOS Version: Unknown
Most games that allow me to specify graphics mode/level still work and any game that will "try anyway" works, but I can't figure out how to get these 2 running.
I decided to try to load as many of the Legend games as I could and everything that I have will run except Spellcasting 301, which gives the same error message as Homeworld.
I've tried every commandline argument I know, but I may not know many of them (just what's in the manual for Gateway - the only game I have the original manual for).
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