I don't really know that much about computers. Then I found dosbox, and installed that, and I can't get the game to work, can someone help me figure out what I need to do. So I installed in on my computer, and it wouldn't run. I found my old mercenaries cd, and wanted to play it. DOSBOX is the best out there, keep it that way.!!!!!!!! There is probably some protection which DOsBox doesn't emulate, i used the same CD in my old PII 350Mhz and it worked fine back in 1998. I used Alcohol 120# to make an image and loaded it and it worked 100% You cannot use the original CD in DosBox. The game works 100% The problem is with the CD and DosBox. I can do high rez and high graphics on my C2D E6600 - ATI Raedon 1950xtx rig, but an older P4 2.54ghz could only run it at 320x240 without stuttering. You'll need a fairly modern system to run Mercs at higher resolutions without stuttering.
You should now be able to install mercs to the hard drive and run it with full CD audio. Then mount the mercs cue using the imgmount command with the -t option (example: imgmount D c:mercenaries.cue -t iso). Use the -freesize command give it around 200-400 MB of space(example: mount C C:OLDGAMES -freesize 300). Next, run up DOSBox and mount your dosbox folder. Other disk formats may work as well, but I'm sure that bin+cue works. First, you need to make a bin+cue image of the mercs disk. I've found that the following settings make Mercs function completely using DOSBox v0.72 (I'm using the original game, not the platinum edition).
I try MechWarrior 1 and it work, so there's no problem between dosbox 0.73 and Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit. "Īnd it return "C:MERCS>" and won't start. I follow all instruction of fulkren, it install and try to run but it doesn't work.Ĭopyright (C) 1996, Activision Studios. did anyone else come across this problem? if so how did you fix this? I have followed the instructions of both the Dos Box Wiki tutorial and the fulkren method, and both times dos box tells me this program cannot be run in dos mode. please help!ĭos Box wont run this game in dos ( 18:20) Its really frustrating not being able to launch any of the missions. i then moved the folder that was created labeled mercs3d from the program section of the c drive to its own little seperate folder i then mounted the c drive in dos box using that folder and raN The game using mw2 shell which allowed me to install from windows but not play(i have win7). i installed the game by opening the contents of the cd from my d-drive and clicking on the setup button directly. when i hit launch mission tho the game stops and sends me back to the dos box command prompt. I got the game to run up to a certain point. Make sure you install the game from the DOS folder of the cdrom. If you mount the BIN file the missions won't launch, but you can go through the menus.
Okay, I got everything to work INCLUDING launching missions, but I had ALL the issues listed here. Used under Authorization.Mech Warrior 2: Mercenaries - Activision (1996) LucasArts, the LucasArts logo, STAR WARS and related properties are trademarks in the United States and/or in other countries of Lucasfilm Ltd.
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