Try using a different output than surface, because fullscreen palette changing operations may interfere with your nvidia card's performance.

Hmm, no good. I tried all five settings too.

I'm new to this game and have been playing it recently. I use W7x64 and have had almost no problems with it. There was one occasion that the mouse-scrolling went berserk for unknown reasons, but the problem disappeared when I shut down WC3 that was running in the background.

Incidentally, for someone whose first experience with this universe was WarCraft 3, playing WC2 for the first time is particularly interesting - you can see where certain ideas in later games came from (the pig farms outside Orgrimmar for example).

(The version I am running, after patching, is Warcraft 2 BNE v2.02. I have 'Run as Administrator' enabled in Compatibility and set Windows XP SP2 as the emulated system.)

Well of course, that's BNE. That's an entirely separate version which came out late 1999 and has nothing to do with the original DOS version.

Really, what's the difference? Is it worth getting the original as well?

I seem to recall the BNE version was a later release of the original DOS to allow online play. The BNE version is still supported I believe.

Might have caught onto the problem, something is goofy with the CD Audio. I tried turning that off and just used the MIDI music and the game ran fine. Although I prefer the CD Audio stuff.

Can you use DOSBox with burned images of disk? Might try that.

If you run the setup program and set it to use General Midi for music instead of Soundblaster, it will sound almost exactly like the CD Audio tracks. The CD Audio tracks were all done on an SC 55, and Windows has the same sample set built in.

leileilol wrote:

Well of course, that's BNE. That's an entirely separate version which came out late 1999 and has nothing to do with the original DOS version.

Did BNE actually achieve any popularity? I know lots of people who played the DOS version back in the day, but virtually no one who played BNE.

I tried the DOS version. It's basically the same, but the interface is more annoying to use because familiar keystrokes/commands are missing: CTRL-number/number to create/select unit groups, and CTRL-unit or doubleclick-unit to select all similar units

Also there's no food/upkeep display at the top of the screen, which makes it harder to know when to build more farms.

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:

If you run the setup program and set it to use General Midi for music instead of Soundblaster, it will sound almost exactly like the CD Audio tracks. The CD Audio tracks were all done on an SC 55, and Windows has the same sample set built in.

That worked, it's similar enough to enjoy the game at least. Gracias.

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:

it will sound almost exactly like the CD Audio tracks. The CD Audio tracks were all done on an SC 55, and Windows has the same sample set built in.

This is not true

The CD audio has a few more tracks that don't have MIDI versions

Good point, it's been a while since I've run WCII with midi. It's not that hard to play it with CD Audio if you rip it properly to a cue/bin pair.