NEED HELP INSTALLING Hardwar? Linux, 7, Vista, XP

[Pilot]

Looks at "precious" pets it and ignores the ebay loon. (Tolkien haha) Didn't get it? Name your flyer Gandalf.

[Raids]

Here's how I got the game running on Win7 with no problem at all. (I installed from original game disk so am not sure if iso's will be different). Note that I didn't have to change any compatability settings.

Install the game as normal, when the diskspace warning came up I used the Diskspace fix file;

zedo.hardwar.org.uk/diskspace_skip.exe

Shut everything down on your install, run this then run install again.

I then installed the last official patch u2.04;

zedo.hardwar.org.uk/u204patch.zip

before installing UIM6.

zedo.hardwar.org.uk/HardwarUIM06.exe

I'm not sure that you actually have to install the u2.04 patch or if you can simply just patch to UIM6 but this is the way I did it and it worked.

I then started the game and was confronted by the game options box. These are the settings I used:

Display Settings
3D Rendering: Primary display
Game resolution: you can choose what you like here
Image Quality: All available boxes ticked except “Original Explosions” & “Original Fog Cols”

Tick “Mipmaps”, “Use software mouse pointer” & “24/32 Bit Display”

Fog settings is a personal choice and obviously so are your joystick and audio selections (just remember that the further to the right you put the fog slider the heavier the fog and less distance you'll be able to see in game).

You should now be good to go. Start the game and get greedy!

I had all sorts of problems getting Hardwar to run on my old Vista system and honestly expected Win7 to be even worse so I'm delighted it was this easy.

[Captain Zedo]

Jun 6, 2011 17:38:04 GMT -5 sushi said:

Hello,

Just a word to say i had to convert the 2GB partition (created just for Hardwar) into FAT to make Hardwar install on it. NTFS wasn't appropriate. I run Vista premium...

@+

If you decide to have a FAT partition (or drive), I'd *strongly* recommend running Windows98. You can get copies from torrents. I did this before I just made a dedicated Windows98 box just for older games. I had good luck with it.

Be careful what disk tool you run. Many will allow your Windows7 or Vista to reformat a FAT partition.

[xiaotuanzi]

I run Vista premium...

[xiaotuanzi]

I can run smoothly with no fog but I actually set it to near because I love the foggy atmosphere, Titan just seems way too "friendly" when I can see everything in a crater.

[Captain Zedo]

Feb 6, 2012 22:36:50 GMT -5 xiaotuanzi said:

I can run smoothly with no fog but I actually set it to near because I love the foggy atmosphere, Titan just seems way too "friendly" when I can see everything in a crater.

I agree. I vary the fog from game to game, but usually keep it pretty close like the original game. It makes the world seem bigger.

[Digger]

I have Hardwar UIM06 installed on win 7 x64 ntfs with no problems and no compatability mode. The secret to installing old games is don't put them in the default location. C:\Program Files\ and C:\Program Files (x86)\ are now "protected" and the software no longer has the perms to write to it's install directory.

I install mine in C:\users\myusername\programs\

Since no other user but me runs it, it's not a problem, and no more UAC nonsense

[Captain Zedo]

Sept 29, 2012 23:46:43 GMT -5 @Digger said:

I have Hardwar UIM06 installed on win 7 x64 ntfs with no problems and no compatability mode. The secret to installing old games is don't put them in the default location. C:\Program Files\ and C:\Program Files (x86)\ are now "protected" and the software no longer has the perms to write to it's install directory.

I install mine in C:\users\myusername\programs\

Since no other user but me runs it, it's not a problem, and no more UAC nonsense

Excellent tip. I've been doing something similar since Vista started "protecting" everything. I don't know why I never applied this to games.

I try so many new games now, that I have a separate partition for them. That seems to override some Windows Vista/7 problems as well.

[Digger]

It's amazing how much stuff was broken by this one "feature" alone. I probably should've put them on a separate partition, but I have something like 50 of them where they are already...and I only started with 1 or 2 ...also I switch off my anti-virus before installing, it messed up installs twice before I tracked it down.

Not related to Hardwar per se, but the only other major problem I have on x64 is a lot of old windows software has 16 bit installers that M$ conveniently decided not to support. Running wine under linux can get the files installed, and can be moved to a win7 partition, but digging out the important registry changes can be a pain. Most of the time I just leave it in linux if it functions already.

It's a shame M$ threw so much excellent work under the bus

[Captain Zedo]

Sept 30, 2012 13:38:02 GMT -5 @Digger said:

It's amazing how much stuff was broken by this one "feature" alone. I probably should've put them on a separate partition, but I have something like 50 of them where they are already...and I only started with 1 or 2 ...also I switch off my anti-virus before installing, it messed up installs twice before I tracked it down.

Not related to Hardwar per se, but the only other major problem I have on x64 is a lot of old windows software has 16 bit installers that M$ conveniently decided not to support. Running wine under linux can get the files installed, and can be moved to a win7 partition, but digging out the important registry changes can be a pain. Most of the time I just leave it in linux if it functions already.

It's a shame M$ threw so much excellent work under the bus

Microsoft made many errors in Vista. They were trying to mimic Linux's security and failed miserably. That was the beginning of a well deserved downward spiral for MS. They don't even have a viable presence in the mini-OS market.

I was beginning work as an independent technician when Vista came out and made a fortune figuring out the account system, horrible firewall, and bizarre administrator systems. Vista was easier to hack than to use by-the-book. The only commercial system that can make that claim.

Windows 7 was better, but the whole idea of limiting accounts is still ill applied. It's easier to crack through the firewall than it is to change your desktop wallpaper. It terrifies me to think of a Windows 8 mini-OS that will be on phones and pads that people will use for financial transaction. There was never a better day to be a Windows hacker.

[leenuks]

Hi all.

I know this is a Windows based thread but I felt I should add my experience with Linux.

On switching to Linux (Ubuntu 12.04) recently I decided to see what Windows games I
can get running.

I tried to install Hardwar into a VirtualBox Windows XP Pro Virtual Machine using CD images
loaded into Daemon Tools. The installer would crash on running. I then burnt the image to a
CD-RW and tried installing from there. I had an issue with the 2gb partition that I fixed by
filling up the virtual Windows partition. Game installed cleanly.

Upon running the game it would crash instantly with a Direct Draw Fatal Error;
DDrawCreateNonScreenBuffer, create surface failed - one or more of the caps bits passed to
the callback are incorrect.

The above was an experiment. Battlefield 1942 Demo works in the Virtual Machine but not in
Wine.

So Wine was my next choice (should of been my first). Using the burnt CD-RW I installed
hardwar flawlessly. No partition size errors, nothing. The icon appeared on my Ubuntu Desktop.
I held my breath as I double clicked it. I started off with default settings and clicked launch. I
was soon flying around stealing cargo from destroyed flyers. The game ran very smoothly with
fog set to far and most of the enhancements turned on. 32bit textures and 24/32 bit display
made the textures flourescent. ACK my eyes.

I installed the UIM6 for bonus treats .
Game screen resolution set to 1920x1080 fullscreen. Game also works windowed.
I have progressed to day 12 so far.

Today I decided to check out the community. Zedo's website is apparently a hackzone..
bahahahaha. Sad really! Google, pffft.

As yet I cannot get the networked game running. It crashes as soon as I try to connect.
----
Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000002 in 32-bit code (0x00000002).
Backtrace:
=>0 0x00000002 (0x0033fe70)
1 0x7b859cdc call_process_entry+0xb() in kernel32 (0x0033fe88)
2 0x7b85af4f in kernel32 (+0x4af4e) (0x0033fec8)
3 0x7bc71db0 call_thread_func_wrapper+0xb() in ntdll (0x0033fed8)
4 0x7bc7486d call_thread_func+0x7c() in ntdll (0x0033ffa8)
5 0x7bc71d8e RtlRaiseException+0x21() in ntdll (0x0033ffc8)
6 0x7bc49f4e call_dll_entry_point+0x61d() in ntdll (0x0033ffe8)
0x00000002: -- no code accessible --
----

OS - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64bit
Intel® Core™2 CPU 6700 @ 2.66GHz
NVidia GeForce GT 240/PCIe/SSE2 512mb DDR5
Wine Version 1.4
4gb ram
2x500gb hdd
Xbox Controller S as USB joystick using xboxdrv.

Its nice to see games like this still alive and kicking.
Thanks to those who have modded, upgraded, patched this excellent simulator.
My six year old loves it. Oh, and so do I!

[duncan]

Anyone installed on Windows 8 yet? Works?

[Digger]

Don't care. Win 8 is as far as I can see, is worse than vista, chock full of "features" that will eventually kill windows...dead...

Get Win 7 or linux, or go ahead and try and install it under win 8, you'll be the 1st.

-Digger

[Pilot]

I'm finally considering adding 7 to my main desktop. So Win8 is out, I hate multimedia features, I mean seriously the fingerprints on monitors will be aweful. All they are doing is copying Apple's touch features. Seriously microsoft grow a brain and quit coping on the student next to you.

[Captain Zedo]

Jun 6, 2011 17:38:04 GMT -5 sushi said:

Hello,

Just a word to say i had to convert the 2GB partition (created just for Hardwar) into FAT to make Hardwar install on it. NTFS wasn't appropriate. I run Vista premium...

@+

That's a really good idea. There are many installations of Hardwar on NTFS file systems (XP - 7), but your method sounds like it would avoid a lot of problems.