How your BZ looks like?

Sporkinator · **Posted:** Tue Aug 18, 2009 1:46 am

The HP Pavilion Notebook got taken over by a virus, so to have Internet, I had to get out the old Windows 98 desktop PC.

This computer is so slow, I had to fight to get a decent framerate in BZ. Between the 400MHz Intel Celeron processor, only 32 MB of RAM, and the ATI 3D Rage IIc AGP 4 MB Graphics card, you only begin to have a smooth game in SW mode with all textures turned OFF. I also reduced visibility to 100. My FPS is lower in window than it is fullscreen. I actually managed to reach 55 FPS in full screen, and by zooming in on terrain, I managed 60.7 FPS one time! :lol:

But remember, it looks like this:

and putting terrain detail to even "LOW RES" will cut framerate in half, getting 15-25 FPS full screen.

Baldrick · **Joined:** Sun Mar 01, 2009 4:53 am **Posts:** 134

It's not that bad. At least you have radar!

Sporkinator · **Posted:** Wed Aug 19, 2009 1:59 am

Baldrick wrote:

It's not that bad. At least you have radar!

Very true.

EDIT: Here's another ss, I downloaded IrfanView 4.25, and on this machine apparently for anything to work while BZ runs, BZ must be in window. About 50% of ss's taken with IrfanView fail, creating an empty 0 kb file. My ss hotkey is completely ignored when BZ is full screen.

My BZ looks retro.

ROFL, paint can't save as PNG on Windows 98, but IrfanView can take PNG ss's, and they can be viewed with IrfanView.

Apocalypto_317 · **Joined:** Thu Sep 17, 2009 7:52 pm **Posts:** 3

Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300 2.5GHZ
NVIDIA GTX 285 1G
Windows 7

Hey all, thanks so much for this! I remember playing battlezone back in the day and loving it! Looking forward to returning to the good old days!
However, there are two problems. Problem 1: Game cannot be run in hardware mode. Problem 2: When run in software mode, the graphics on objects look
like those in the picture below

:

I am hoping this to be a Windows 7 issue:

Mr. Spock · **Posted:** Thu Sep 17, 2009 10:54 pm

Apocalypto_317 wrote:

Problem 1: Game cannot be run in hardware mode.

What does it say?

Apocalypto_317 · **Joined:** Thu Sep 17, 2009 7:52 pm **Posts:** 3

I'm getting an Unhandled Exception error upon loading a level from the menu.

I returned to Vista, and now cannot play fullscreen software mode either, although I can watch cutscenes, and the colors are back to normal. The only mode that seems to work is windowed software/hardware. However, in this mode, mouse sensitivity sucks...

Mr. Spock · **Posted:** Fri Sep 18, 2009 11:08 pm

You have dual boot with Vista and 7? Should be XP and 7. On XP everything works and Vista is something like damaged version of 7.

Navbeacon has it working on his Nvidia and Win7 - http://battlezone1.freeforums.org/post5146.html#p5146, so you should be able to make it work too, in HW mode.

Your pic looks like you don't have installer version from this site... Did you try playing with compatibility mode (WinXP), BZ resolution (800x600), render.cfg and Nvidia control panel?

Illyren · **Joined:** Fri Oct 23, 2009 1:42 am **Posts:** 2

cowgod · **Joined:** Wed Oct 28, 2009 3:41 am **Posts:** 4

I'm using Battlezone 1998 because I could not get the normal install to work at all. I'm running Battlezone 1998 with Windows XP SP3 compatability with UAC off.

I have the same problem as others with the radar on NVidia cards. Is there a fix that works without resorting to software mode? Nearly everything else is gorgeous, with the exception of a few HUD glitches (look at the Recycler selector and Scrap counter in my screenshot).

Code:

OS: Windows 7 64-Bit
RAM: 8GB
Dx: 9.0C/11
Graphic Card: Geforce 8800 GT
Driver: 190.62 (08/17/2009)

render.cfg:

Code:

[NormalView]
VisibilityScale=150
HiRes=1

[Debug]
TrackFPS=0

[D3D]
TripleBuffer=1
ZBuffer=1
MipMaps=1
LargeAssets=1
PreLoad=1
loadsprites=0
halftexel=1
alpha=1
SplitZBuffer=0
RadarType=7

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