First post, by typh0id
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So as mentioned in my recent post about Quake/Hexen, there a few games (particularly older 3D games) that really, really dislike the onboard graphics of my Win98 Laptop (Dell Latitude D505 - Intel 82852/82855 GM/GME Extreme Graphics 2 for Mobile). Most I've been able to fix with some help:
Hexen II - Working in hardware mode thanks to the Hammer of Thyrion sourceport
Quake - Working in hardware mode thank to Quakespasm sourceport (thanks DOSFreak!)
Metal Gear Solid - Working in hardware mode thanks to the Vista/XP noCD patch 1.0 (that just happens to also work on 98)
So that just leaves Twisted Metal 2, which is kind of a weird one. When I first installed Win98 with the default DirectX6.1, TM2 would run and play but only in software mode. It would crash trying to load a level in hardware mode. Once I upgraded DirectX to anything 7 or above (needed for the majority of my other games) the game would still start and let me go through the menus just fine, but once I tried to actually start playing, the game would again crash during loading screen. This now happens either in software mode or hardware mode. The official patch (1.2, I think) doesn't help either. The game simply can't load a level any more.
What's even weirder is that if I install it on my newer XP laptop, it runs perfectly fine without any issue (other than the cars spinning really fast on the selection screen, but I can live with that). But I really want to run this game on my 98 laptop since I try to keep the games I put on each one as era-appropriate as possible (95 to about 2001 for the 98 laptop, 2001 and onward for the XP).
Does anyone know of any patches or workarounds to get Twisted Metal 2 to stop being grumpy?
Thanks!