First post, by FramerateUK
I've had many problems getting Motorhead by Digital Illusions to run on various systems over the years. I recently got it up and running on a Windows 10 x64 machine with an i5 and nVidia 1060 GTX.
1. Install Daemon Tools
If you don’t have a CD drive. This is important as it's the only drive emulator I've found that gets the CD Audio working correctly. The music is half the appeal in this game for me so it's a big deal.
2. Install nGlide
I've been able to get the game working using the OpenGL driver, but using nGlide seems to eliminate quite a few compatibility issues.
3. Download a replacement InstallShield exe
The original version is 16 bit and just won't work on x64 systems. You can download the InstallShield 4 exe at this page:
https://reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10988
If the link goes, just PM me and I'll host elsewhere.
4. Copy the whole install cd to a folder on your hard drive.
Replace the Setup.exe file with the updated version and then run it in Windows 95 compatibility mode.
5. Download the 3.0 patch.
Run it in Windows 95 compatibility mode to get it to extract the install files, if this doesn’t work, you should be able to extract it using 7zip.
Again, replace the new setup file with the updated version. Set Windows 95 mode and then install as normal.
6. Launch Motorhead and turn on Glide rendering.
I use 800x600 in this game as the in game menus are pretty big at 640x480. nGlide will then render it at any resolution you please. (I use 1920x1200 with an aspect ratio lock, this game does not support widescreen).
One downside is that Motorhead doesn’t have any dead zone settings for joysticks. I had lots of problems with my 360 controller as the drivers don't have any built in dead zone settings. I swapped to using a Playstation 4 DS4 pad instead though, and along with the DS4 Windows driver. You can download it here (http://ds4windows.com/) or a more recent fork here (https://github.com/Ryochan7/DS4Windows), you can set the deadzone as well as reconfigure the pad to your own needs.
There are a couple of delays on my machine switching between the menu and the main game, but it always manages to get through without crashing.