With the 1.1 menu problem were you finding that the cursor at the menu would not move? - does your computer have a secondary intel graphics card as my laptop does - i find that i have to use this for older games.


However if you have the game going in he 1.2 version now hats bloody great!

Cursor moves normally with the corrupted Menu graphics. With 1.1, the menu never clears using the experimental patched exe that is. With the stock v 1.1 and both 1.2 and experimental 1.2 exe's, the corruption clears after a bit - having pressed "alt-F" a number of times.

Hadn't thought of removing my video card!! The onboard chip for this motherboard is one generation back from the latest, which means bad - compared to poor. :-) But as you say, if the 1.2 version success holds up, woo hoo!

Menu corruption is caused by explorer on at least win 7.

I solved it by make start.bat with this content



and running game via that bat file. Menu corruption is very rare now.

WONDERFUL! thank you i will try this out!

could this be applied to other games possibly that have corrupted colours?

I use this to start M1TP2, but it has no effect on my Win XP installation. Perhaps it is effective only for Win 7?

I can't believe it but I found a my M1TP2 original disk (but no manual). So I have a Win 7 computer and I have read a number of posts on the problems of getting it to run. would someone please prepare a simple checklist of the latest method to get it to run and what to download. thanks.

+1 for the above statement. I just received my copy today and am installing in regular Program Files. I can't wait.....!

oh yes

Well lets see,

Go to the website for NGlide (made by zeus software) and install nglide
then..

install the game - i think i selected the setup.exe on the disk to be in winxp sp2 mode, but i dont know if that will matter too much - perhaps it does -

once its installed, apply the 1.1 patch, or the 1.1 then 1.2 patch (actually i dont know if both need to be applied for 1.2 patch)

then get the experimental patch from teh NGlide forums - its in a post i have there regarding m1tp2 - on about the 4th page. the patch will have 2 folders in it - one for 1.1 version game, which i prefer personally or the 1.2 version.

Depending on which version you have installed, simply change the name of the original game exe (or just let it be overwritten - i doesnt matter too much) and put the patch in the m1tp2 folder where the game exe was. The experimental patch is a replacement game exe and so then just run the game from it or the game shortcut as normal.

once in the game you should be able to go to the configuration option and select glide as the graphics option.

The menus may have corrupted colours but that wont affect the gameplay as the battles will play looking in their lovely normal textures.

- this should be enough to get you into the game - but let me know if you need more info

Anyone have a cite to patch 1.1. I have 1.2 but would like to also have 1.1
thanks

i have the 1.1 patch and can send it to you along with the other things i retained from the m1tp2 mission making sites all those years ago - a heap of custom missions, sound mods and additions like distance markers in the commmanders binoculars

just send me a PM with your email and i will send it to you

Quick question, can the resolution be changed at all? It would be fantastic to get an even higher resolution than out of the box.

if you play the game with the glide option and with nglide install - of course that is pretty much the only way to play with glide and it will give the best graphics, you can set the nglide game resolution through its configurator tool - it should be in nglides start menu folder
I have used it and it is playing the game at a much higher resolution -its great, i can use if on other 3dfx games like LB2 and play at higher res also

so, I made a text document and labeled it as a start.bat and pasted your text inside. I then placed the start.bat into the main game folder and then just click on my desktop shortcut to get her to run?

Thanks for the info, so there is a game resolution that maxes out and nglide just adjusts the game to fit your desktop, not really change the resolution, correct?

i am not sure - i had played it with nglides res setting up to that 1300x768 or so and the game looked crisper than i remember but perhaps thats just 3dfx at any nominated resolution with this game. In other games it will definitely up the in game resolution - i definitely get higher res out of Longbow 2.

On another note, i have gone into play M1tp2 tonight through windows 7 and it has started crashing during the mission - this is the first i have ever seen the game do this - usually it is super stable during the battles. I had updated my nvidia drivers yesterday and so that may be the culprit - although i run m1tp2 with the intel graphics card selected instead as the nividia card doesnt play the game normally so i am not sure what the problem is that i am having with it at the moment.

let me know if any body else is having this problem or not

thanks

okay i think i found the cause - it appears that the game is less stable with the nglide resolution all the way up - it was markedly finer with the higher 1366x768 res but putting it back to the default 640x480 still looks nice and makes for a smoother game!

I am not sure if you mean original shortcut for game or you made new shortcut for start.bat on your desktop. Sure you must run game via that start.bat click directly on it or make shortcut for it. Otherwise it will have no effect. It will probably works on Vista/win 7. People reported this method dosent help with UI corruption on XP systems.

I am going to try and get this going on my machine...the file for the NGlide. Is it called nGlide 1.00 Glide wrapper?

Just wondering if this is the right one.

If so, and I install it, can it adversely affect any current graphic files that run with the more modern games, like DCS or ROF.

actually once the bat file is made, i thought one starts the game by double clicking the bat file - you put a short cut on the desktop to the bat file. The bat wont run if you just still click on the shortcut to the game exe.

FOr the Nglide resolutions, the configurator will definitely up the in game 3dfx resolution, but this was starting to cause some crashing for me, so playing at the default resolution is perhaps best - though maybe up it a little might be okay?

so far as i can tell there is no trouble on my system now running both the m1 tank platoon 2 and newer games like DCS - i was having graphic problems with DCS before but i found that was caused by the intel integrated secondary card on my mboard running instead. If you have an onboard intel card as well as a separate graphics card, M1TP2 will prob run best with the intel card - at least thats what i found.

Okay update for anyone following, the nglide resolutions are not the culprit. I have gotten crashes it seems through trying to play the game with the bat file running to close Explorer. So i dont know whether though this is due to other problems being causednby explorer being closed while playing the game from the ISO i made of my copy, through magiciso - whether this can work without explorer i dont know. I might try instead with the cd in the drive.

But this may be a crash caused by other actors too such as the events in the battle may be - in particular occasions where enemy units are moving through the forest blocks - this can occur in some maps with forest and with a few enemies starting in the forest. They normally trundle themselves out but maybe this is causing a problem with the nglide glide wrapper?