[OT] FREEDOM FORCE! (discussion)

[Wulf Ratbane]

Well, after nearly putting my fist through the wall last night trying to get Fallout 2 to run on Win2000, I have decided to give up my grand plans of "RETRO GAMING WEEKEND" and buy something new.

Anybody know if I am going to have problems getting Freedom Force to run on Win2000?

All I know is I better play something soon or I am going postal. (Stupid gamer friends and their stupid family committments... bleh!)


Wulf

 

[MasterOfHeaven]

Heh. Hey, Neverwinter Nights and Warcraft III are out in 30 days, why not wait for those? Seriously, you should have no problems running Freedom Force on W2k.

 

[Agamon]

FF is a good choice, so is Morrowind. From what I know, neither has non-playablilty problems with Win2000. But then, I'm not using Win2000, so I couldn't say for absolute sure.

Can't speak on WC3, but NWN isn't going to make it before the end of June. Beta hasn't even started yet.

 

[Dinkeldog]

You could always, I don't know, update a story hour?

 

[JohnRTroy]

Works Fine

Hi guys,

I have Windows 2000 Pro. Worked fine for me.

 

[Neo]

Not surew it's much help but i can assure you Fallout 2 does work on everything from Win 95/98/2000/2000se/and XP... as i have played and run it on all. so it must just be some conflict somwhere with your software or hardware thats new since you upgraded to 2000.

I would add that although they run in all the above FO 2 does have a tendency to sometimes crash in 2000 and XP.

 

[Grazzt]

FF works fine under Win 2kPro. Hell, it even runs under Win2K Server (I tried it at school last week)

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

Well... The first tutorial mission is fun. Plays through, no problem.

But it locks up EVERY TIME heading into mission two.

If you read about a bloodbath in the Lombard area, it was probably me.


Wulf

 

[Squire James]

I feel your pain. I have this paperweight/coaster with a pretty Freedom Force logo on it. I get random desktop crashes (no error message, or too fast to see) with WinXP. Sometimes in first mission (one time I couldn't even reach the second spinning sign), always in second mission (especially when Mentor first shows up).

I have kept what I consider to be an extremely stable system. Until recently, I could run every game in my collection pretty decently except Ultima 8 (not much I can do about "system halted" messages). Now the exceptions are Ultima 8, Freedom Force, and Morrowind. Yes, I bought TWO games that are sitting around being paperweights! Yes, I've done the Video/Audio Driver Shuffle. None of the reasonable options (surely you don't require a BETA driver?) worked.

 

[Alyx]

Just bought both Morrowind and Spiderman: The Movie. Turns out neither of them will work on my age-old video card, the once mighty, now dying voodoo 3. My solution is the expensive route; time for a new card! Alas, four years is a long time in computer terms, as we all know . Poor card served me well and faithfully.

Should have both games up and running soon.

But I have played through and finished Freedom Force. Loved it. One can only hope that the sequel, in the making as we write, will turn out as good.