Panzer Commander help needed

[tankchick]

I am new to tank sims and really want to play this one but need help. I have service pack 2 and 1.3 patch but it will only let me do the training and if i try to go into Cupola view unbuttoned or drivers view it will lock up and you have to restart computer. If i try to go into the game it just returns me back to the main menu. Can anyone tell me what i need to do? I am so ready to play this game and getting frustrated cause it isn't working. Thanks

[BPNZ]

Hi TC,

Panzer Commander certainly has some problems with XP and modern video hardware.

You might try switching, is it real world physics? off, as it usually crashes the game within a short time. For me game plays OK if I do that.

Also models tend to be slightly see through as I assume modern video drivers don't support the old way of doing rendering sequences.

See if any of that helps anyway

Pity 1.4 wasn't finished.
Still a fun game and the campaigns are great.

Cheers

[Scotty]

Originally Posted by tankchick

I am new to tank sims and really want to play this one but need help. I have service pack 2 and 1.3 patch but it will only let me do the training and if i try to go into Cupola view unbuttoned or drivers view it will lock up and you have to restart computer. If i try to go into the game it just returns me back to the main menu. Can anyone tell me what i need to do? I am so ready to play this game and getting frustrated cause it isn't working. Thanks

Using Xp on a 2,2 GHZ system, mine too locked up often, after much tinkering, the best solution was a CPU slowdown program..
slowing things down to 10-20% made it about 100% reliable.

use patch PZC 1,3, not 1.4.. as 1.4 is not a official patch and some of the armor rating changed to less authentic

have fun.

[ZeeWolf]

Hi Tankchic,
Do you have the proper Direct X version installed

ZeeWolf

[Gerald]

[MaddogK]

Originally Posted by Scotty

Using Xp on a 2,2 GHZ system, mine too locked up often, after much tinkering, the best solution was a CPU slowdown program..
slowing things down to 10-20% made it about 100% reliable.

use patch PZC 1,3, not 1.4.. as 1.4 is not a official patch and some of the armor rating changed to less authentic

have fun.

TY, took you're advice and set it up using 'moslo4biz', running S=30k, method 4 (for XP) and stability has been near 100%- tho a couple training missions are still buggy in v1.3. Actually set up the graphics to 'full candy' but am running my nvidia card in compatibility mode, physics still disabled.

A few more tweeks and all should be golden, I'll have to try this slow-down proggy for wipeout.

Hah, finally I found a way to get rid of the annoying frequent crashes/BSOD's!
The solution is "sandboxie". I run this game through the sandbox with all graphics enabled (except real physics) and the game runs great. No crashes, no lockups.
The only thing I couldn't solve is the chase view problem. I don't think there is a solution other then going back to Win98.