![]() Prior to the release of DOOM in late 1993, Wing Commander I and II and their assorted spinoffs and expansion packs constituted not just the most popular collection of outer-space shoot-em-ups since the heyday of Elite but the most popular computer-gaming franchise of the new decade in any genre. If I weren’t doing one I’d be doing the other. Movement was buttery smooth as you'd expect.Movies and computer games are my two favorite things. This seemed not to take when going into 3D, the game responded only to its default arrow key-based layout, or holding right mouse button and moving that way, which I'd forgotten it did. * - the only other change I made was to rebind the keys to a WASD layout. I'll fiddle around with it some more later. So, so far it seems playable but in a rather iffy state. The other thing was an "ffdshow" dialog that popped up on starting it I told it to enable that and it seemed happy enough. Wonder if that's related to the missing textures too. ![]() Other things of note: when it shifted to 3D it gave some warning about an "error code that was not an error". Autosave had worked and dropped me right back in Tex's office, still with invisible textures. Sure enough the process still existed in Task Manager (again, only true after the crash), so I killed that and started again. I tried restarting, but it told me only one instance could be running at a time. (When quitting normally, my desktop switched back to its normal resolution.) rather amusingly leaving my desktop at the game's native 800圆00 resolution. Wondering in that was the culprit, I found my way back to the settings (F9, just fyi), changed that setting to off again, and the game crashed to desktop. Having dipped into the settings prior to starting, as usual, I'd only made two changes* - one of which was switching on animated textures that were off by default. Movement around the office seemed okay, stuff was responsive if clicked on, but it wasn't optimal. FMV ran fine, but when it got to the first 3D section (Tex's office), there were immediately a lot of missing textures noticeable. ![]() Just had a shot at running GOG Overseer (which I noticed, as you guys have already posted, is indeed the DVD version - I assume chosen for higher-quality video). I believe it may have been one of the first on a DVD, yeah. The others have that problem to some degree too. It was the video codecs and Bink, I believe. I got Overseer working, it was just the biggest pain in the ass. It was one of the first games to ever ship on a DVD, wasn't it? But I wouldn't be suprised if it's still broken. I'll have to try the GOG version, that's the most likely to have success I guess. ![]() ![]() You can get it working in Windows 10 but it’s definitely the most difficult one to get functioning properly and I’m fairly certain that no one has gotten the DVD version working on a modern system. Tesla Effect scores a platinum on ProtonDB but Overseer is borked, sadly. They're all on Steam, too (I only have TE there).Īs far as the Deck goes, GOG at least (and thus I assume Steam) has native Linux versions of all of them except Overseer and Tesla Effect. Oh, everyone should know that gog.com (Good Old Games) has every single Tex Murphy game. ![]()
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