Hello,

Wing Commander 1 and 2 are not playable on my pc. I tuned the dosbox.cfg files a while but i get weird performance in both games all the time. Cycling down or up the cpu cycles does not help.

In WC 1 all defend cap ships or transport missions are next to impossible. I have to tune up cpu speed to be able to play without unnerving slow moe, but the difficulty spikes too much. Protect the ralari is not solvable for excample. Every time i rush to the ralari with afterburners blazing, the ship is destroyed or battly damaged. Those gratha heavy fighters kill the poor thing in 10 seconds. No chance to solve the mission. In the old days i flew the mission a couple of times and managed to save the ralari, as i recall.

In WC2 i cannot control the fire of my ship. A little push on the fire button, i use the mouse, unleashes a salvo of shots till my capacitors are empty. I tried some tweaks on the dosbox.cfg file but to no help. Its no fun to fly a space sim without controllable fire. Game has weird performance issues too.

If someone could give me a hint how to circumvent these problems, that would be much appreciated. And no i have no x486 machine at my disposal.

In this state, I am very disapointed that i wasted money on those games. I have to replay wc 1 + 2 in my memories.

Ah the wc 1 + 2 bundle shop page counted the secret missions and secret operations in, but i can not find them in the downloaded material.

Edit: Oh sorry was not counted as bonus material. But wc 1 and 2 are not complete without the misson packs. The story has a huge hole at start of wc2 when you have not played the mission packs.

In WC3 the excalibur ship tends to loose control. I keep drifitng in one direction. The controls are not responding. Game is not playable. I try to turn off the auto-glide option, but the ship keeps drifting. Or the afterburner fires automatically. At the beginning of missions with the excalibur or arrow autoslide is turned on but can not be toggled off. So these missions are completable for me. Edit After another two hours of experimentation i found the problem in the control layout. Tab for afterburner did turn on off autoglide mode. Now i use mouse control to fly, tab rightclick for after burner.



Have a nice day

I wish I could offer a solution but I never got them working perfectly either. I did some Googling and looking through wcnews but didn't find any good fixes. Especially 2 got really slow with multiple ships then too fast with only a few. Finally I found a cpu cycle speed which made the gameplay so-so and just went with it. WC3 worked a lot better through dosbox, I don't recall having any major issues with it, though it was the original CD-rom version. I don't know if it's any different from the GOG one. I played the Kilrathi Saga versions of 1 and 2 at a friends a year or two back and I recall they worked better. I used a joystick so didn't experience any control issues.

Hello,

Thank you for your answer.. I could solve the problem with the excalibur and the arrow. I will give this Kilrathi sage you mentioned a shot, perhaps there i can save those heroic marines on board of the captured Ralari Destroyer in the Gimle system. They deserve a better pilot then me.(or a better hardware to simulate the mission on)

Have a nice day.