You could try a different wrapper

Davros wrote:

You could try a different wrapper

I only know nGlide. Any suggestions?

Dgvoodoo or Dgvoodoo2
http://dege.freeweb.hu

or
zeckensack's
http://www.zeckensack.de/glide/

Davros wrote:

Dgvoodoo or Dgvoodoo2 http://dege.freeweb.hu […]
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Dgvoodoo or Dgvoodoo2
http://dege.freeweb.hu

or
zeckensack's
http://www.zeckensack.de/glide/

DgVoodoo does the same. It doesn't change much.

Plus there's still the problems of audio and cutscenes.

Have you tried playing the game with the original 1.0 version, no patches? The game runs fine for me unpatched but it never worked if I patched it...

SpeedySPCFan wrote:

Have you tried playing the game with the original 1.0 version, no patches? The game runs fine for me unpatched but it never worked if I patched it...

That was my next move. Should be doing it today and report how it goes.

Now, sadly, it won't go beyond a black screen when I boot it. Either with DxWnd, dgVoodoo, or nGlide.

If you don't mind the complexity of playing through emulation, then DOSBox or QEMU with Win98 works pretty well for this game on your system spec.

Heavy Gear supports Direct3D, isn't that easier to get get going?

Putas wrote:

Heavy Gear supports Direct3D, isn't that easier to get get going?

3Dfx Glide has better likelihood to get it working on modern systems due to Glide emulation. I found that Windows 10 x64 has poor compatibility with Direct3D in the era of DirectX 3 to 7.

It works on my Windows 10 x64 rig with Pascal card.

I tried HG 1.0 (original) and HG 1.1 (patched) on Windows 10 x64 1803 with Direct3D with the 1st training mission. The sim started but black screen at the end of mission. Cut scenes shown as blue square. I still use the old generation NVIDIA G210 with only WDDM1.2 support. I did not experiment with different compatibility options.

I tried reinstalling and patching to 1.2 again, mounting it from an .iso set to D:

Now I get the videos and the main menu, but when trying to start a game (campaign / first training mission), the game won't start, either on 3Dfx or Direct3d mode, either with nGlide or ngVoodoo.

And DxWnd won't even get the opening cutscenes.

Ehm, is it a legal copy?

HEAVY GEAR 1 is kinda BUSTED as mechwarrior 2
No matter what you do, it doesn't work from windows8+ without some bugs.
In mechwarrior 2's case is the MW2SHELL.DLL and the Updates not working on modern machines, last time mech2.org updated it the game used to work until win7x64. Since HG1 uses the same engine, it may be possible to look at it and update it to use modern language.

They are kinda active on their discord channel, maybe someone there may give a insight abut hacking the DLL and how to update it.

Deffnator wrote:

HEAVY GEAR 1 is kinda BUSTED as mechwarrior 2

Heavy Gear 1, Mech2 3Dfx and Titanium version all work with DOSBox SVN and QEMU with patches to support 3Dfx.
Heavy Gear 1 and Mech2 Titanium also work with DOSBox SVN accelerated by Direct3D from 3Dfx voodoo1 chip emulation.

All versions of Heavy Gear 1 (1.0, 1.1 and 1.2Beta) work for me in DOSBox SVN and QEMU on Windows 10 Pro x64.
Version 1.1 supports 16-bit texture, so the graphic details are noticeably different from 1.0 (sky & ground rendering).
Version 1.2Beta has improved particles and clipping plane. You can see objects further in this version compared to 1.0 and 1.1.