European Air War, M1 Tank Platoon II, and Panzer Elite???

I see EAW and PE listed as working, but I can't even get them to install. Does anyone have a work-around for this, please? And I can install M1TP2, but soon as I go to enter in a battle, I am kicked to the desktop.

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I see EAW and PE listed as working, but I can't even get them to install. Does anyone have a work-around for this, please?
 
And I can install M1TP2, but soon as I go to enter in a battle, I am kicked to the desktop.

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Panzer Elite plays perfectly with DirectX 8.
It does with Detonator 3 drivers 6.47.

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But my main question for PE is HOW did you get it to install? I get all sorts of errors and it won't complete the installation.
 
Thanks

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Just reinstalled it. No problem at all. Click install, choose full and it does. Then start 3D-Control Centre and adjust graphic properties (1920x1200). It plays fine with 6.62 Detonators drivers on Kenwood 72X CD with firmware update for UDMA 2.
 
So your problem may be a bad media disk but more probably the CD Rom itself or DMA may not work. It may also explain slowdowns and lockups of MW4.
 
European Air War installation just fails.

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EAW installs ok but you need to run acompat.exe (W2K CD)and then as NT4 and then point to the auto run on the CD; it works fine, better than 98 in terms of stability and speed.
 
Panzer Elite, installs fine and runs fine no problems at all???
 
M12TP no chance,

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Panzer Elite now works fine! But though I got EAW to install, it will only run for a few moments, then lockup my system hard. I used the SETWIN95.CMD on it which helped me get at least that far. If I use the acompat.exe, it either does not run, or say the MSCVRT.DLL is missing or not the Win32S version. Any clues??? Or should I go with the MS Combat Simulator instead???

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Thanks to X-AL this is what he posted and it worked fine, especially as EAW is so much better than the M$ Combat stuff.
 
My solution was (so you don´t need setwin95):
First, update EAW to Version1.2. Then install APCOMPAT.exe (it´s in a support drawer of the W2K-CD). Run APCOMPAT.exe, checkmark only NT5 as the operating system, and link (important!) AUTOPLAY.exe from the EAW-CD in the field "Start the following program". Klick OK! Then the autostart EAW screen appears. Good flight!

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There is no "NT5" in the Acompat.Exe I have, only Windows 2000 or NT4 SP5. I take it you mean Win2K by saying NT5???
 
And it is quite interesting that you do it on the AutoPlay file!

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They meant NT4 SP5 to select in Apcompat. Also use 1.2a patch instead of 1.2.

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Never mind, I finally found the 1.2a patch. But guess what? First off, I still get the error about the CD missing (even though I did the ini hack), but if I click on continue, it will play the game. BUT (secondly), . . . I now can play for about 10 minutes, but it still locks up on me
 
So now what is next???

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I have the CL Anihilator Pro and using the WHQL 6.62 drivers.
 
As for the patch, I got the 1.2a (unofficial), but that only helps to allow me to play for about 10 minutes now before locking up.

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Whoops sorry, yup NT4 (slip of the finger) but it works with the standard 1.2 patch and no registry hacks....once upon a time in the dark ages of 98 I had lock up problems due to the sound card drivers which may be a red herring or a clue???
 
Have fun.

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A few things you could try, at your own risk:
 
I downgraded to 6.31 from NVIDIA to prevent some lockups in a few games I own. You could try that as last resort.
 
Follow the instructions at the following link, has helped some with sound quality/lockup/stutter issues, works with just about any soundcard:
 
http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic...amp;m=514098692
 
If you happen to have a Creative SBLive then try these updated drivers (beta version 5.12.1.3110):
 
http://alive.singnet.com.sg/drivers/wdm0101.htm

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WOW! That one about the DEBUG LEVEL being on is TRUE! I never realized that, nor would many others!!! So I set it to off. Will test it later for sure! Might also be the thing to fix the MW4 problems as well!!!!

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Oh well, the DEBUG part still did not solve EAW locking up. I still get to only play for about 5-10 minutes, or . . . . it does seem to lockup mainly when I shoot the guns.
 
I wonder if B17 is much better anyway???
 
Next I will try the DX8.0a to see if that helps??????

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Dell Dimension 4100
PIII 1GHz
GeForce GTS 2 Pro
Santa Cruz Turtle Beach Sound card
 
My friend I am having the exact same problems with appcompat.exe and setwin95.

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Actually, let me amend that. I can run for about 3 minutes using the appcompat.exe method then it just freezes, sound image everything and I have to reboot. When I upgraded my GeForce Drivers and my sound card drivers and got a GeForce tweaker with optimum settings (I don't know which one helped) but I went from about 30 seconds to 3 minutes of flying time.
 
When I try to run setwin95 I get an errormessage "imgcfg is not a recognizable command or filename..."

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I haven't tried EAW in awhile, but as the new QfixApps ver2 is out (search the archives here, someone posted a link in answer to my question) and got M1TP2 to work, its possible that it will let EAW also. As a matter of fact, I think the guy posted that it even let him play EAW online too!
 
Here it is:
 
http://www.ntcompatible.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/001887.html

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Anybody got a link for this hard to find European Air War v1.2a patch...I've looked all over and can only find v1.2 patch ?????