Pool of Radiance Question
CCF
especially since the box said new and improved v1.2. :)
Must be good. Riiiight. My first, and to this point only issue, is that
I can't attack anything. I enter combat, I get the sword icon but when I
click on the bad guys, nothing happens. I left click, I fight click. I
can move, select spells but can't cast them on baddies. It is like on
attack my left mouse button dies. I assume it is just supposed to be
that easy to attack something does anyone recall this game and this sort
of issue?
Nathan Engle
> OK, I saw this for $3 so I figured how bad could it be for $3-
> especially since the box said new and improved v1.2. :)
>
> Must be good.
Definitely a classic, although I find that that PoR module
for NWN is a really faithful rendition of the original
(besides which I've lost my old rune copy protection wheel).
> Riiiight. My first, and to this point only issue, is that
> I can't attack anything. I enter combat, I get the sword icon but when I
> click on the bad guys, nothing happens. I left click, I fight click. I
> can move, select spells but can't cast them on baddies. It is like on
> attack my left mouse button dies. I assume it is just supposed to be
> that easy to attack something does anyone recall this game and this sort
> of issue?
I was pottering around in Pool of Darkness recently (that
was the 4th and last of the PoR series) and it was a weird
step back in time. Basically you use arrow keys to move
up next to an enemy, then select Attack, then use "Manual"
targeting and the arrow keys to select the victim. None
of the PoR or Savage Frontier games (which used the same
PoR engine) were mouse-driven except in the most primitive
sense of the word.
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Rimsey Mimblerod
wrote:
Are you speaking of Pool of Radiance or Pool of Radiance 2?
Ken Rice
The rune decoder wheel used to posted online somewhere. It was an officilal
posting.
I have a "patch" that will bypass the rune wheel, if you're interested. In
addition to copy protection, the rune wheel does provide a clue later in the
game.
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Mike
wrote:
>I was pottering around in Pool of Darkness recently (that
>was the 4th and last of the PoR series) and it was a weird
>step back in time.
Nathan, I think he is referring to the new Pool of Radiance, not the
old SSI Gold Box games. I could be wrong though. :)
CCF
Sorry, didn't know there was an older version. I'm referring to POR
Ruins of Myth Drannor.
GSV Three Minds in a Can
the wonderful person CCF <c...@XXXXsprintmailXXXX.com> said
<snip>
>> Are you speaking of Pool of Radiance or Pool of Radiance 2?
>
>Sorry, didn't know there was an older version. I'm referring to POR
>Ruins of Myth Drannor.
The 'older version' was the first AD&D game released on the IBM PC, way,
way back in 198x. You may not even have been born then. 8>.
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> the wonderful person CCF <c...@XXXXsprintmailXXXX.com> said
> <snip>
> >> Are you speaking of Pool of Radiance or Pool of Radiance 2?
> >
> >Sorry, didn't know there was an older version. I'm referring to POR
> >Ruins of Myth Drannor.
>
> The 'older version' was the first AD&D game released on the IBM PC, way,
> way back in 198x. You may not even have been born then. 8>.
>
Pool of Darkness in 91.
old dude
Nathan Engle
> Nathan Engle wrote:
> > I was pottering around in Pool of Darkness recently (that
> > was the 4th and last of the PoR series) and it was a weird
> > step back in time.
> Nathan, I think he is referring to the new Pool of Radiance, not the
> old SSI Gold Box games. I could be wrong though. :)
You're probably right - that thought did occur to me and I
checked some bargain bin prices. It's kind of quick for a
2001 title to wind up at $3, but that's a lot more plausible
than the possibility of finding a 1988 title still in shrink
wrap for that price...
Showing my age again...
chainbreaker
> You're probably right - that thought did occur to me and I
> checked some bargain bin prices. It's kind of quick for a
> 2001 title to wind up at $3, but that's a lot more plausible
> than the possibility of finding a 1988 title still in shrink
> wrap for that price...
>
> Showing my age again...
Heh, I found Chuck Yeager's Air Combat in its original wrap in an EB bargain
bin for a couple of bucks not that long ago. It's a '91 title instead of an
'88, but still . . .
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Vincent Teerling
wrote:
>OK, I saw this for $3 so I figured how bad could it be for $3-
That's rather odd.. Have you installed the 1.4 patch? If not, I'd
suggest you uninstall the game, do a re-install and apply the patch.
The game should work fine. I play it on a relatively old system, under
Win XP, with a Geforce 2 MX and DirectX 9.0b and haven't encountered
anything like this at all.
I'll probably lose all credibility for saying this here, but, with the
last patch installed and a speed hack, POR2 is actually a lot of fun.
Especially for $3.
Cheers,
Vincent
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CCF
> On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 21:42:03 GMT, CCF <c...@XXXXsprintmailXXXX.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>>OK, I saw this for $3 so I figured how bad could it be for $3-
>>especially since the box said new and improved v1.2. :)
>>
>>Must be good. Riiiight. My first, and to this point only issue, is that
>>I can't attack anything. I enter combat, I get the sword icon but when I
>>click on the bad guys, nothing happens. I left click, I fight click. I
>>can move, select spells but can't cast them on baddies. It is like on
>>attack my left mouse button dies. I assume it is just supposed to be
>>that easy to attack something does anyone recall this game and this sort
>>of issue?
>
>
> That's rather odd.. Have you installed the 1.4 patch? If not, I'd
> suggest you uninstall the game, do a re-install and apply the patch.
> The game should work fine. I play it on a relatively old system, under
> Win XP, with a Geforce 2 MX and DirectX 9.0b and haven't encountered
> anything like this at all.
>
> I'll probably lose all credibility for saying this here, but, with the
> last patch installed and a speed hack, POR2 is actually a lot of fun.
> Especially for $3.
>
Did the reinstall and applied the 1.4 patch and no go. Same behavior,
really, really odd. The left mouse button works fine to do anything but
attack the bad guys. :(
Vincent Teerling
wrote:
>
>Did the reinstall and applied the 1.4 patch and no go. Same behavior,
>really, really odd. The left mouse button works fine to do anything but
>attack the bad guys. :(
Strange.. well let's see... what can we do... First, what kind of
system do you have? And what kind of operating system? Have you
upgraded all your drivers?
You could try to run the game in Win 9x compatibility mode. To do
this, right-click on the file's executable (e.g. Pool II.exe) and
select the compatibility tab. Here, tag the 'use comp.mode' box and
select an operating system. Win 95 should do. Leave the other boxes
untagged for now.. you can select them if the game still gives you
problems.
You can also try to lower the hardware acceleration of your video
card. There should be a acceleration slider in the properties of your
video card.
Should that fail, you can also disable the DirectX hardware
acceleration. Select Start, Run and type DXDIAG. This brings up the
DirectX test menu where you can fiddle around with it's settings.
Good luck!
Michael Romes
If you already have the last 1.4 patch installed and still experience
that problem I would suggest to visit this page:
http://www.poolofradiance.com/
and ask your question in their forum again.
bye
Michael
Wormwood
wrote:
>Definitely a classic, although I find that that PoR module
>for NWN is a really faithful rendition of the original
>(besides which I've lost my old rune copy protection wheel).
I heartily recommend this over the official "Pool Of Radiance" CRPG
remake that came out last year. Final battle is quite challenging,
and much more difficult than the old Gold Box game. Everything I
remember about the original content/story-wise is in the NWN module
except one great tavern room fight that took me hours to complete in
the SSI game on my old Commodore 64. The graveyard sequence with the
vampire end-boss is brilliantly done, though it only took me one
second to defeat him with my fighter & cleric. Don't play with a
fighter unless you want it to seem like God-mode.
-worm
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