MechWarrior 4 Vengance Blue Screen With Sidewinder Joystick \ VOGONS

MechWarrior 4 Vengance Blue Screen With Sidewinder Joystick

Topic actions

Post a reply

First post, by Ronin64

Posted on 2024-01-27, 18:10

Ronin64 Offline

Rank Newbie

Rank: Newbie
Posts: 12
Joined: 2023-06-29, 15:20

Hi, I'm trying to play MechWarrior 4 Vengeance with a Sidewinder Force Feedback Pro joystick, but I am getting constant blue screens. The game boots up fine to the main menu, but when I click training a loading bar appears for a second and then a blue screen. So I tried without the joystick connected and it worked fine. I also get a blue screen when trying instant action and the campaign.
Here is my hardware
Windows 98
Athlon 2500+
Asus A7V400-MX
512Mb Ram
Onboard Graphics
Sound Blaster Live CT4780 (Joystick connected to this)

The joystick works fine with other games and I can go into game options and test the force feedback.
Does anyone have any suggestions?

Reply 1 of 2, by elszgensa

Posted on 2024-01-27, 18:43

elszgensa Offline

Rank Member

Rank: Member
Posts: 361
Joined: 2023-01-08, 15:35

Some ideas:
- PCGW mentions something about Access Violation 0x72446, if that's what you've been seeing then there you go.
- Try the 2.0 and/or 3.0 patches.
- Try switching sound card drivers (VXD->WMD or vice versa). Or maybe you have some other card with a gameport?
- Try the /gosNoForceFeedback parameter to temporarily disable FF, to make sure the rest of the plumbing is working. Maybe a different stick, too.

Reply 2 of 2, by Ronin64

Posted on 2024-01-27, 22:02

Ronin64 Offline

Rank Newbie

Rank: Newbie
Posts: 12
Joined: 2023-06-29, 15:20

elszgensa wrote on 2024-01-27, 18:43:
Some ideas: - PCGW mentions something about Access Violation 0x72446, if that's what you've been seeing then there you go. - Try […]
Show full quote

Some ideas:
- PCGW mentions something about Access Violation 0x72446, if that's what you've been seeing then there you go.
- Try the 2.0 and/or 3.0 patches.
- Try switching sound card drivers (VXD->WMD or vice versa). Or maybe you have some other card with a gameport?
- Try the /gosNoForceFeedback parameter to temporarily disable FF, to make sure the rest of the plumbing is working. Maybe a different stick, too.

I tied /gosNoForceFeedback first and it worked, but I kinda want the force feedback so I then tried the 3.0 Patch. It did not work, so I then tried changing my sound card drivers to WMD and that worked.
So thank you very much.

Go to top of page Go to top of page

Back to Software

Main menu

Common searches