At the wcnews website someone made this patched up version of the Windows 95 executable to Privateer 2 that disables interlaced videos (removes the scanlines) and properly times the game so it works on modern systems.

It would always silent exit for me despite following all the instructions including setting Windows 95 compatibility mode. However the program works fine under Wine 1.8, so I'm left wondering was it because of AMD Catalyst or something else going wrong? Why would something designed to get running on Windows 7 work so well under Linux? I don't even get a dozen fixme's in Wine running this...

Anybody with Privateer 2, would you mind testing this on your system to see if it runs at all?

Relevant links:
http://www.wcnews.com/news/update/12379
https://www.gog.com/forum/wing_commander_seri … ch_thread/page1