First post, by ElementalChaos
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Help! I am absolutely at the end of my rope here, this issue is driving me insane.
I installed MechWarrior 3 on my Dell Dimension 4100 system last night, patched it, and had a blast playing the first few missions. I shut it down, went to sleep, came back, turned it on, and now I can no longer play. The specs of the machine are in my signature.
The problem I'm having is something to do with the physics engine being way out of wack. Everything in the game literally moves back and forth in time, from the mech spinning in the customization screen, to the clouds in the sky. Even the timer in the top right corner moves from 0:01 to 0:02 and the back, repeatedly. The game is unplayable. As soon as I make a single move the mech wobbles back and forth at an increasing pace until it either falls through the floor or into the sky and blows up.
Once the game is patched to version 1.2, the missions don't even start at all. The effect is different depending on what renderer I choose. Using DirectX, the game freezes on the first frame and the screen fades to black and then in again multiple times per second. Using the software renderer, the screen becomes a pulsating rainbow psychedelic mess.
I've already tried:
Running the game in Software mode
Running the game at low graphical settings
Downgrading to DirectX 7 (can't go any further)
Reinstalling the game 4 times, making sure everything MicroProse related in the registry was gone each time (it was)
Trying 5 different Nvidia card drivers
Installing the game in a different directory
Slowing down the CPU by disabling level 2 cache
Reinstalling sound card drivers
Uninstalling KernelEx
Turning off DirectSound acceleration
Using WinME system restore to go back to before I installed MW3 for the first time
I did a complete surface scan of the HDD in ScanDisk, no errors.
Seriously, what is there left to do? I'm basically ready to give up and just quit trying to play this game, which is a shame since it was so fun. Anyone have ANY ideas short of wiping the hard drive and doing everything over?
Pluto, the maxed out Dell Dimension 4100: Pentium III 1400S | 256MB | GeForce4 Ti4200 + Voodoo4 4500 | SB Live! 5.1
Charon, the DOS and early Windows time machine: K6-III+ 600 | 256MB | TNT2 Ultra + Voodoo3 2000 | Audician 32 Plus