Shadowcat on 27/2/2002 at 06:25

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Hello!

I apologise for not having a more organised guide to running the game available for you; however if you read the threads linked to below, you will cover pretty much everything I've seen about getting the game running on a modern machine. With luck, these techniques will also work for you. If not, please post to let us know, and give as much detail about your system as possible (hardware (esp. video card!), operating system, etc...) and someone may be able to help. Good luck, Soldier!</p>

<i>--Shadowcat</i>

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If you have a reasonably modern machine then the simplest way to run the game is to use DOSBox:
(http://ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1750959#post1750959)

DOSBox will also let you (http://ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1841367#post1841367) rebind your keys, should you wish to do so.



If you wish to run Terra Nova 'natively', please read the rest of this thread.

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You can find the patch at the Games Domain (this only fixes an issue with the random mission generator, however.)
(http://www.gamesdomain.com/patches/tnv109.html)

(sorry... will have a new link soon with any luck)

To the best of my knowledge, no one has managed to run Terra Nova under Windows 2000, but the information for XP might apply?

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<ul><li>Some folks have succeeded in running Terra Nova under Windows XP:
(http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=1029355)

<li>Failing that, SolVBE may help for XP users:
(http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=80339)

<li>Information about the +BADLINMODES command-line option:
(http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7435)

<li>Vesafix. Voodoo 3 owners look here!!:
(http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7368)

<li>vesafix may also help with non-3dFX cards!
(http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7359)

<li>painstaking details on using vesafix:
(http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7355)

<li>Learn how to install from the hard drive, plus some suggestions for AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS settings:
(http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7345)

<li>a couple of comments on sound cards
(http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7431)

<li>If all else fails, make a boot disk:
(http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7398)
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oRGy on 10/6/2002 at 00:39

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if the makers of tn had a secrat one and they RELEASE NOW would it have glide support?

3dfx is dead! fs!

:mad:

cthru on 1/8/2002 at 00:36

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Problem - TN dies after the intro movie; moved all files across under the TN folder on the HDD (once or twice it complained it couldn't find the Movie files); doesn't work.

Spec -
OS - winXP;
Soundcard - SB Live Value 1024 (for TN it seems to need SB and Roland for music - weird);
GFX - GF2MX 32mb Nvidia drivers v29.42;
CPU - Nafflon 1ghz;
RAM - 384mb;

had no luck running from a boot disk either (the option through the TN config fails to make one)...

erm, any ideas? Haven't heard from anyone else using winXP

:erm:

[Edit] - running through DOS does nothing either; insofar it's reported "Access Denied" every time i've tried to open C:\TNOVA\

Dowen on 8/9/2002 at 00:49

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BTW, Vesafix also works on my Radeon 8500. TN needs some command line switches (+nounivbe +badpaldac) to run properly even with Vesafix, though, and I still haven't got the setup program to work adequately. Fortunately, I already had TN installed on my hard drive (I installed it when I still had my old GeForce in this computer) so I don't even need the setup program - for now.

Shadowcat on 9/10/2002 at 11:11

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> IT RUNS!

Yay!! Always a pleasure to see another SFC squad-mate back in action!!

> The vesafix works, but then it says "bad command or file name."
> Any hints?

Not sure offhand. IIRC the vesafix is a TSR (terminate & stay resident) program, which means you only really need to run it once each time you boot your machine. If it's not written to recognise attempts to load it again when it's already running, perhaps that could cause an error? Just running it twice in succession from the command line should verify that.

Another possibility is that it needss to be in your PATH variable for DOS to find the command. You could get around that by specifying the full path name (e.g. "C:\games\tnova\vesafix" instead of just "vesafix")

> I copied the original batch file adding the vesafix at the top,
> but where would I place "+badlinmodes?"

Try editing the .bat line along the lines of:
__ff.exe +badlinmodes %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6

The "%1" type arguments just mean that the batch file should pass along any (well, up to six) command-line arguments to the __ff.exe file, so doing this is pretty much the same as if we'd run "tn.bat +badlinmodes"

I'm kinda tired right now, so I hope that makes sense :)