Configuring Mortal Kombat II in Win95??
Misogyny
for full screen, but all it does it give me a black screen and the
game hangs. Needed to ctrl-exc back to the desktop and terminate it.
Running in MSDOS mode didn't work, either. (and why does mscdex take
forever to run in build 950r2?)
The troubleshooting help for running MSDOS programs didn't help me,
either... Any other ideas?
Thanks for any help you can give...
-Corwyn
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S L Herbert
: Most of my games work, but Mortal Kombat II (PC CD) doesn't. I set it
: for full screen, but all it does it give me a black screen and the
: game hangs. Needed to ctrl-exc back to the desktop and terminate it.
: Running in MSDOS mode didn't work, either. (and why does mscdex take
: forever to run in build 950r2?)
: The troubleshooting help for running MSDOS programs didn't help me,
: either... Any other ideas?
: Thanks for any help you can give...
There is a file called 'CMOS' or something like that in your MKII directory.
Delete that, and all will be well.
Regards,
Stu
Bob Milby Jr.
cmiy...@husc7.harvard.edu (Misogyny) wrote:
>Most of my games work, but Mortal Kombat II (PC CD) doesn't. I set it
>for full screen, but all it does it give me a black screen and the
>game hangs. Needed to ctrl-exc back to the desktop and terminate it.
>Running in MSDOS mode didn't work, either. (and why does mscdex take
>forever to run in build 950r2?)
>
>The troubleshooting help for running MSDOS programs didn't help me,
>either... Any other ideas?
>
>Thanks for any help you can give...
>
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Corwyn
I don't have Mortal Kombat II, but I've succeeded in running every DOS game so
far in Build 347. I drag the executable to my desktop and use the PROPERTIES
section to reboot with a specific AUTOEXEC.BAT. Sometimes it'll run under
"Windows" if I click the PROTECTED MODE box instead. If you've already tried
that, drop me a line and I'll give you some more ways to tinker. :)
Bob Milby Jr.
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Steve Goncalo
>
>I don't have Mortal Kombat II, but I've succeeded in running every DOS game
so
>far in Build 347. I drag the executable to my desktop and use the
PROPERTIES
>section to reboot with a specific AUTOEXEC.BAT. Sometimes it'll run under
>"Windows" if I click the PROTECTED MODE box instead. If you've already tried
>that, drop me a line and I'll give you some more ways to tinker. :)
I think this was "improved" in the later builds. I remember doing it like
you say with an early build, but the properties page changed. They give a
checkbox menu for major configuration items dealing with memory and such, or
let you edit a config.sys and autoexec.bat file in an edit window. I don't
think the later builds support invoking a named file for the .sys and .bat
functions anymore. In my case, if I boot back to the DOS mode, my normal .sys
does not load my cdrom driver (since I normally use the protected mode W95
versions). There is an arcane sequence I find I have to hand edit into the
sys edit window to load my driver, and another I have to enter into the .bat
to load MSCDEX. Being able to load named files (or setup one file with the
defaults) would be far better for me than the new way of setting the
properties.
Am I missing easy way to do this?
Vijay Venkatesh
> Most of my games work, but Mortal Kombat II (PC CD) doesn't. I set it
> for full screen, but all it does it give me a black screen and the
> game hangs. Needed to ctrl-exc back to the desktop and terminate it.
*** Go to setup in the win95 directory and change the video display
driver to plain VGA. This sort of problem occurs if you have initialized
a different video driver like an actix/gxe 1024x768.
> Running in MSDOS mode didn't work, either. (and why does mscdex take
> forever to run in build 950r2?)
*** Please specify what kind of a computer you have. Ram ... memory etc.
>
> The troubleshooting help for running MSDOS programs didn't help me,
> either... Any other ideas?
*** Troubleshooting in MSDOS will not help it is probably a problem of video
setting using bit map entry
Scott S. Fawley
>cmiy...@husc7.harvard.edu (Misogyny) wrote:
>>Most of my games work, but Mortal Kombat II (PC CD) doesn't. I set it
>>for full screen, but all it does it give me a black screen and the
>>game hangs. Needed to ctrl-exc back to the desktop and terminate it.
>>Running in MSDOS mode didn't work, either. (and why does mscdex take
>>forever to run in build 950r2?)
>Q: Why are you running mscdex?????
>YOU DON'T NEED TO RUN DOS CD ROM/SOUNDBLASTER DRIVERS!!!!!!!!!!!
>The only time you do is if you reboot and load DOS only.
>Rename current auotexec.bat and config.sys to *.dos
>Windows 95 should rename this when you boot and load command prompt
>only using F8. Rebooting, Windows 95 should rename them back to *.dos.
>This means that you can easily switch between a pure DOS and Windows 95.
>The reasons for removing DOS drivers:
>1. MUCH MORE conventional memory
>2. Faster 32 bit CD ROM drivers
>3. In future, Direct Draw and Direct Sound will be supported ensuring video
> sound syncing (ie perfect lip sync)
>Dos games will be able to use all Windows drivers if loaded from within Win95
>(ie soundblaster, CD ROM, mouse). If running from DOS, it is as per normal
>in old Win3.1/DOS
>>The troubleshooting help for running MSDOS programs didn't help me,
>>either... Any other ideas?
>I think if you run without all the crap in your autoexec and config then
>you'll have more memory - could be the key to your prob
>>Thanks for any help you can give...
>Fine
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After I rename the autoexec.bat and config.sys files, how do I get my
CD ROM drivers to load? Please email me at fl...@airmail.net.
Thanks.
Scott