SpacePhish

Trust me read the FAQ and it will work. Well okay then, if you say so.

Well I would suggest you read the FAQ. All the usual problems assoicated with running the game can be found there. Before you go digging through it, I suggest you tweek with your memory setting. Make sure you have enough mem in dos, set-up the short-cut according to the FAQ. It's all in there. writing from the place they call AOLHELL

Hmm, you have a Yamaha card huh. Well so do I so try the following. quote: Q. I HAVE A PCI PLUG 'n PLAY SOUND CARD, HOW CAN I CONFIGURE IT? A. Though the HMI sound system used by BC3K supports a lot of cards, there are some obscure ones that are not supported. For instance, this example shows you how to hack it so that you can make it work. No matter what card you have, if it does not have Sound Blaster DOS legacy support or at least emulation support, it will NOT work. quote: From a full screen DOS session, go to the BC3K install directory and run SETUP.EXE for the HMI sound system. Select the 'select digital' option and select all the defaults. You will not be able to enter an IRQ. Do NOT test it. Click on OK to return to the menu. Go to 'select midi' and do the same. Again, do NOT test it. Select OK to return to the menu. Finally, scroll down and select OK to exit the menu and OK again to save the config. quote: Using C:WINDOWSNOTEPAD.EXE or similar text editor, open up the HMISET.CFG file in the BC3K install directory. Make sure you set NOTEPAD to view all files because it defaults to *.TXT. With the file open, it should look like BEFORE version below. BEFORE (sample) A [DIGITAL] [DIGITAL] DeviceName = *ESS AudioDrive DeviceName = *ESS AudioDrive DeviceIRQ = **-1 DeviceIRQ = 5 DeviceDMA = 1 DeviceDMA = 5 DevicePort = 0x220 DevicePort = 0x220 DeviceID = 0xe019 DeviceID = 0xe019 [MIDI] [MIDI] DeviceName = ESS AudioDrive DeviceName = ESS AudioDrive DevicePort = 0x388 DevicePort = 0x388 DeviceID = 0xa002 DeviceID = 0xa002 *It should be Soundblaster, the default in setup. **change this to your own IRQ Run game, now you have sound. BTW, DOWNLOAD the latest drivers from the Yamaha site. If you don't, BC3k will NOT work with your Yamaha SG-XG soundcard. [This message has been edited by SpacePhish (edited 02-02-2000).]

What IRQ are you using? Well, read the faq, *hint*the section about sound cards*hint*

Bummer SUB. I did the same exact thing you did. I read on this fourm about version 2.0 before it came out, then blindly I went out and bought it, sadly it was version 1.0. Man was I pissed, but after getting to know this game and the people on this fourm I went and bought Version 2.0 (I had the drive to San Mateo on a empty tank with about $2 left for gas! For real I'm not kidding. Man was I broke then). Trust me it's worth it! P.S what do you say you and I go blow the **** out the store where you bought the game from! They should NOT rip people off like that!

ENJOY!!!

Will make sure everything in the shortcut is configed correctly. Read the faq regarding setting it up. You have enough dos mem to run so you're cool. Also do not run the game in 3DFX mode when you don't have a 3DFX card, ex. Voodoo1,Voodoo2,Voodoo3 cards made my the company called 3DFX(or whatever as long it can run glide). BattleCruiser use the 3DFX Glide API, that's why only 3DFX cards can run in the 3DFX mode. BTW, I could be very wrong because I don't know nothing 'bout the the MGA card. It's it bundled DVD card???

Okay, read the section in the faq about memories. What is you sysetm spec? We have to know what kind of system you're running and if you are playing the 3DFX mode. ALso make sure you have enough mem in dos. While in the DOS promopt box type mem. Tell me what the line : Largest executable program size : read. That's all for now I guess. Just make sure you read the faq carefully, the key to the perfect game is in there. Double check! BTW, are you into DMX? Isn't that what he calls himself, the Dark Man?

Okay whatever dude. Sure, it happened. BC3k blew up my computer right in front of me, I'm telling you my whole computer was smoking and melting into oblivion(NOT). Smoke was everywhere, bunch of insane foolz started knocking on my door and then my baby(she was very drunk) came into my room and we hmmmm... END OF STORY. [This message has been edited by SpacePhish (edited 01-24-2000).]

Okay, sorry Laguna. I know how you feel man, when your computer's gone to hell you feel like ripping somebody to pieces. BC does not use DirectX, so it has nothing to do with DirectX. Beyond that I tell you my skills are pretty limited but I will still try to help you anyway I can. Is your warranty still effective? If it is your warrenty should cover it, they(the dudes who you got the computers from) should fix it.

The DEMO is not supported. BESIDE the game will not screw your computer, you screwed it up yourself. Take it to the shop if you don't know how to fix it yourself.

Oh lord what did you do??? What's your specs? The game will not mess up your computer like that, you did something that made the computer screw up. And if you don't know anything about the REGISTRY don't mess with it.

Try tweeking around in the shortcut. Recently I reinstalled BC and was having game crashes. I had my DPMI setup to the highest possible state which was 65535. But after changing it back to AUTO my game worked perfectly. So just tweek around with the shortcut and read the faq. You shouldn't have any more problem.

Have you tried setting your Inital Enviroment to 4096? Have your tried downloading the 3Dfx drivers from the site? Unzip the vodoo2.zip into your bc3k dir.

Word up Black, Welcome back. Have you tried deleteing hmiset.cfg? Are you postive your memory are configured correctly? If it still dosen't work I'm sure someone with more exprience can help you out. But the answer's got to be somewhere in the faq, so I suggest you go over it again. [This message has been edited by SpacePhish (edited 01-22-2000).]

hmm I was wondering about something. Before I joined the insurgency I had the idea that your suppose to get some tranining before you are allowed to control a B.C right. So is this it? I am now offically an isurgent right? If not do I have to make up some kind report? Thanks.

I have decided. CMD.Chris Blair has conviced me to join the great cause of the Insurgency, so from today on I shall be know as.... CMD.Cash"SpaceFlip"Carter ICV:KntRida Reporting for duty SIR! Let's get'em BCM here we come! "The insurgency, my philiosphy. Dropped off to the edge of galaxy. Blast freee I drop 4 5 Galcom Agency. So please don't hate me..."

hmmm... I guess I'm still a Galcom officer (In the BC universe I haven't gone insane and ran off to become a mercernary yet ) :Rise up his hand in the back of the room and says " Present ". Put head back onto table and falls back into dreams of color:

Well, my advice to Bill. He can start the ass kissing by sending me couple Mils. Are you listening Bill??? Hello, I'm that pimp daddy who use your software, so you better not be dissing me.

OMG, could it be? AM I actually feeling sorry for the ol' Mike'o'Soft? That would really suck, I really think having bunch of diffrenct OS is bad for the industry. I know I know WIN98 is not perfect but hey it works. All I really care is about my games. I Parias said the ol' goverment should stick with what they know about. Not that they know much in the first place. Damn system.

"The Last Mission before I became RICH" The story of the firstNolimit Mercenary A NEWYORKS times bestseller.............. excerpt from chapter 1.... ____________________________________________ yeah, I was assigned to the Chikamu, and we were kicking radier butt one day with my trusted partner, BlackJack...... ____________________________________________ Back to the Present........... +mission +0days +19hours +52 minutes Lights, explosions, tracers, lasers. They were everywhere. I'm accelerating madly down toward the apparching garid. I heard the steady tone of locking on. I let go salvo of missle. Striking the Garid's massive hull. I pulled up just as the shock-wave pushed my IC like a feather up though the blackend space. To my starboard IC-3 was breaking off, enaging another radier fighter. I don't know much about him, but this guys is DAMN good. The orders were clear, we are to retreat toward the debris field. I don't know about rest of the gang but I was sure as hell need a damn break. I aimed my IC toward the debris and hit the afterburner. IC-1 was in front me, it quickly dispatched 3 fighters. But 4 more was comming behind his six. I locked on to a p-21, let go my last remaining missle. It found it's target. The damn raider pilots' getting slopy every fight now, guess we already killed all the good ones. That's suits me fine. I got into a high-g turn as I pulled behind a what? Interceptor Solorain class. Whatever damn radier die! I squeeze the trigger hard. But the Interceptor doged my salvo easily. It breaked right, and down into a spiral. I followed. I quickly had it in my sight. To my supprise it went into a dead stop. Shit! I was getting cocky almost overran this guy. I squeeze off few rounds of laser at high power. I could tell that I pentraded his shield. But it didn't explode like I expect it. Suddenly I camed face to face with him, as he did a slide maunver, shooting lasers straight into my face. My front panel burst. Spraying me with shower of sparks. I was quick, as covered up my face with my arm. You pissing basta!r!d, the guy jumped out. No you don't NO you don't, it ain't over untill I say Click Click bang bang you go boom boom! I hit the jump key and soon I found myself zooming into 'never neverland'(my term for the jump anomly)......

[rp on] Somewhere near BattleCruiser Chikuma. Mission +0days +19hours 44minutes Things are defiantly not looking good for us. My IC-system operational level is down to 64%. Damn P-21 all over the place. I got about 3 on my six right this second, I thought as I dodged another salvo of lasers. One of the reason is I been flying with me EMD on, EMD interfere with my visibility heavily. Every system is flashing with annoying streaks of white. Too much damn missiles, everywhere. I been hit 4 times already. This is beginning to look bad. I grunted as I pulled back on my stick. Bring my craft face to face with an Enemy P-21. I quickly squeeze off a burst of lasers. The P-21 exploded right in my face. Knocking my IC into the void of space. Somehow I regain control. "OH shi**t,"cried BlackJack. My eyes widened with fear as a vagrant flew pass about 2 feet in front of my craft, forming a ripple though my shield. LUCKY I, that missile somehow misfunctioned. Usually when a vagrant get that close, the next thing you will be see is the white light telling you to walk toward it. "D! You *******, what the hell are you doing up there" BlackJack screamed so loud my ear is about to burst. "Chill black, chill, I got it all under control." "The hell you have!!! You don't get you're stupid pilot shit together I'm about to fly this thing out here" I wasn't listening. I lined up another P-21 in my sight, this time I got a missile lock. I quickly fired 2 shot. Both them found their target. I could see the ejection pod launching thorough the explosion. Seconds later it was going, speeding though space at an unbelievable speed. "Report! System status." I said into my com link. "EMD off-line!" I switch off the EMD, no use for it now. "SOB! Missile POD is damaged. I'm rerouting power to it, should be able to launch. Shields at 85%, steadily recharging." A P-21 exploded to our right, I saw IC-1 turning to engage another bandit behind me "Damn computer is down to 75%. We can manage. Hull integrity at 65%, we still may survive." He let out a diluted chuckle. "All other system nominal. I been talking to control, they're almost ready to launch IC-2 and IC-3. We need some help bad!" "Roger. Check my six." I put my IC- though another gut wrenching turn toward the Chikum. From my report few moments ago the raider is concentrating on the Chikamu's PTA system. One is already is off-line. We can't let anymore go off-line. SO my mission is clear, I will protect the PTA's as best as I could. But with my EMD down, I don't know how long I will last. GOD HELP ME! +0days +19hours +46minutes [rp off] I posted this before I had a chance to read nick's post. But it dosen't interferce with you post anyway. Happened at diffent times. I know it's easy as hell to take out an asterom in the game. But this is RPG, shouldn't it be a littke harder to take out a attack cruisr with an interceptor??? I don't know since I'm the newbie here. You guys tell me. If the opposition's really that dumb. So why don't we just take out all of their cruiser with few ICs. Armed with Vagrant. In real life, people don't get cocky when there is over an hundred life onboard that depends on the decisions of a commander. Even tho they're radiers, still they treasure life just as much as we do. Those people who are piloting those ships are breathing thinking sentinel beings. NOT computer controlled A.Is. So I think they should be little harder to take out. Please you guys keep this in mind in the near future. But you can do whatever you want. Just my two cents. [This message has been edited by SpacePhish (edited 08-20-99).] [This message has been edited by SpacePhish (edited 08-20-99).]

Okay. Neverymind. Like I said I'm not deranged. I take it all back, it's not a good idea now that I think about. cause every marine's going to try to get some LOL! No thank you. I'll pass. Tho I might be a marine and give it a shot tho hehehe. It's roleplaying right LOL ! [This message has been edited by SpacePhish (edited 08-19-99).]

[RP ON] Mission +0day +19hrs 23min IC-4 pilot diesel. I'm pissed! I was just about to get off this shift when we were order to launch. Now this??!! Escorting shuttle 2 to bait the supposed radier fleet on the other side of that jump point? I hate the brass in the bridge! But I don't plann on finding a new job so I better do this one right. IC-1, piloted by Banish and Bigtone. I got lot of respect for them. Banish he's helluva of a pilot. I been pratically worshipping him since Flight Flight school. There isnt't one damn guy in flight school who didn't know the NAME BANISH. He was like a god to us. My scanner flashed, informing me that the shuttle has just jumped. IC-1 begin to radio me orders. "4, keep an eye on the shuttle. Don't stray too far. Now let's move!" "Roger 1. Out" I kicked into burner mode and accerlated toward Shuttle 2 and the escorting IC-1. Soon we jumped. There is no way to explain the feeling of being 2 place at once. Kind of disorienting but a good feeling all over. I love it. I almost wet pants as I stared at the scanner ahead of me. I blinked hard, swallowed the heart that was just in my thorat. I couldn't believe it. My scanner was filled with tiny red dots. "Black, tell me that I'm hullcenating." "You are right, we both tripping man. Cause if not, we are in the deep zone!. I read at least 8 attack ships and numerous fighter crafts." Shit, we are all dead meat. We are done for. Game over. This can't be! "Fox 1" I heard Banish over the com link. Soon followed by an fiery explosing above the his interceptor. Suddenly before I could warn IC-1 from the middle of nowhere out came a viper. He got right onto Banish's six, the viper manage to squeeze off a burst of laser but Banish was too good. He pulled hard left to avoid the laser and soon the turned the table against the Viper. The radier pilot melted in blissfuly quick death. "4 fingertip formation. Let's escort SC-2 and get the hell out here." "Rgr 1, I'm right behind ya." I hit full afterburner and quickly moved into poisition. We jumped though the jumpoint just as we reached SC-2. I found myself in the middle of a storm. Lasers and explosion was everywhere. I pushed my stick all the way down to avoid the incoming fire from Chikamu's PTA. My IC begin to shake badly as one of the viper behind me exploded. Killing the raider pilot instantly. Death, I hope was again blissfully quick. My situation awareness kicked into overdrive. I turned and caught a Viper squarely in the middle of my bore sight. I let go a volley of laser fire. "D! Hotshit! Got that Son of a bittt..." I flew right though the debris. A small smile formed across my lips. But disappeared quickly like it never existed. Ahead me the Chikmu and a Asterom was locked in an life and death struggle. Lasers and explosion raged all around the two in an dance of chaos. It was an awesome sight to behold............ [rp off] Ben I wrote something but you post it before I did. So I changed a story to fit yours. Hope you like that later part about after we jumped. We should be able to work something out. Peace! And I thought only IC-1 and 4 was send to escort the sc-1. SO what's up with the ic-2 and 3? Just my 2 cents William Calvert AKA Disel, Mackvelie,Gulumanatie. IC4 pilot GCV Chikuma

[RP ON] Misson +0days +05 hours +45 minute Personal LOG BlackJack and I been aloft for nearly an hour now. We are following a predefined patrol route around the B.C. Not much going on in the system so we were the only interceptor on patrol. No need to waste valuable resources. BlackJack's been especially quite lately, I made a note mentally to confront him later at the galley. I brought back my focus to the HUD in front of me, it cast a soft hypnotic glow on the cockpit. I followed the progress of the 'Chikamu' on my scanner. We were on routine patrol mission in this system. Briefing indicated that we were heading out to Siruis for the next mission, unless ordered otherwise. I let out a slow sign. Just another boring shift. Now I wish I'm behind some poor Insurgent's six blasting him to the depth of hell. "BLack! What's up, how's your readings back there?" I mentally keyed into system com. "All systems nominal. Negative bogeys. The Chikamu 30 miles to our right. I'm also picking some friendly over at jump gate to Siruis. Other than that everything all cleared." "Everybody must be home sleep today huh black." I let out a amusing chuckle. The double click was all I received for a response. A tradition dating back to the early days of military aviation. When in tight situations a click click indicated acknowledgment. Of course in the 31st century we didn't need it, because we can communicate mentally. But to us fighter jocks tradition is very important. Now I really wonder what's on Black Jack's mind, he's a pretty talkative guy. Why has he been so damn quite? I frowned at the thought. Suddenly I was interrupted as the com link to the Chikamu came alive. "Knight-Ridder 4 Return To Base immediately. We are jumping out to Siruis " "Roger Control. Returning to base. Knight-Ridder 4 out." I ended the com link. I banked my interceptor to heading 234, following my NID on the HUD. I could barely make out the distance battle cruiser through the blinding light of the sun.........