A mission i played many times.
Its possible to man any vehicle in M1TP2.
All you need to do is change a couple of digits in the mission script.
Sponauer's web page had a list of vehicle numbers.
I used to like to playthe T-80U as you could guide in the At-11 ATGM to its target.

Hi. How do you get this old game to work? I tried Dxwnd, but every time I access the commander station, it CTD. Other stations seem ok. Also, your graphics look so much better than mine. Any tricks on how to do that?

Ditto pandacat on Win10?

Win7 pro 64bit on Intel(R) Core i5-4670k 3.4GHZ. RAM 8gb, nvidia GTX760.

I have Vista 64, Nvidia GTS250. Running what I believe is the Zeus M1TP2 patched exe (version 1.2 I believe, file last modified date is 6 Dec 2012) with compatibility mode set to Win XP SP2 and the boxes on the .exe's Compatibility tab ticked to disable both visual themes and desktop compression.

Running NGlide, not sure which version, and IIRC have used W7ddpatcher ('for Win 7/Vista 64') to patch the exe.

In M1TP2 Configuration menu, have Glide mode selected, also High detail and Alpha Blending turned on. Have also got the menu bar animation turned on.

Used Nvidia control panel to set AF and AA.

Game plays fine, including intro and training videos. No menu colour corruption, no CTDs at end of mission.

Only problem is that on the main menu screen, the 'Quit' option is not displayed, so I use Alt+F4 to close the program.

I see. W7ddpatcher patches m1tp2.exe or the Nglid's exe?

I'm about 99% certain it patches M1TP2.exe. Can't locate a ref to its use - might have been right here in this thread, somewhere - but I see that it's recommended on this EAW site...

https://eaw.neocities.org/links.html

...as a tool to get rid of colour corruntion in EAW, which corresponds exactly with my previous recollection that this was what I used W7ddpatcher for.

BTW, I played a user-made battle last night, and I got a CTD at the end of it. Don't recall that happening since I last tweaked M1TP2, but I'm less confident now that I'm reliably rid of that

If it's just a random CTD, I wouldn't worry 2 much about it. Ok, here is another question. I have installed nglid, patched up M1tp2 to 1.1. I ran the game. My intro movie screens are black. Then once I am in the game, I don't see any menu items to select. No mouse cursor either. Just the background m1 tank wallpaper and the music. How should I fix it?

Also, when I am using win7ddpatcher, I keep getting "can't load process".

Thanks for the optimistic words!

It's a long time since I set this up, so I'm fairly hazy now - basically I would just have followed the advice on this thread, also looking at the thread on the nglide site. Don't recall getting sound without vision at one stage.

Probably makes no difference, but I'm using the Zeus patched exe for 1.2, same datestamp as 1.1 but timed 02.00 instead of 02:38. IIRC 1.2 added a TC .50 cal or something like that, but made air support less effective (having said that, I called in an AH-64 during last night's user mission and they blasted away at the Red Tide with Hellfires, not before they had burned my LAV-25s, sadly). Take it your base game was 1.1 and not 1.2, when you applied the Zeus 1.1 .exe. Might be worthwhile temporarily replacing the latter with the Zeus 1.2 and see if you get the sdame problem,

Did you try, in the Compatibility tab for the exe, ticking various secondary options? As I said the ones I ticked were to disable desktop composition and visual themes, on what advice of with what effect I do not know, but trying out different combos of ticks in boxes there might be worthwhile.

I see. Ok. Let me explore around a bit to see if I can fix the issue. Currently I can get software emulation to work. But there are a few random crashes here and there from time to time.

Oh btw, the loader keeps wanting to switching ammo to staff and mpat rounds. Often a lot of time is wasted loading and reloading ammo. I know this is an old bug from the original game. But just wonder how you overcome this issue during your game play?

I don't recall ammo selection issues, tho last night I noticed that my crew loaded MPAT, either uncommanded (perhaps as there was a Hind to our front) or maybe I chose it by hitting the wrong key (I'me still re-acquiring my keyboard command knowledge!)

I wonder if your ammo selection issues were the ones fixed in 1.2, as described here:

http://www.combatsim.com/review.php?id=343

I see that article also mentions a cause of CTDs I had not seen before - not sure if there could be a common or related cause to the end-of-mission CTDs common with newer systems.

I still dislike the extreme vulnerability of light units to the pervasive enemy artillery (I give then zig-zag paths ending in dead ground, but still often lose them to the Red Waves that can wash past your tanks) and the fact that, to keep track of what's happening in a typical battle, you need to spend a lot of the time in the map view 'watching red and blue dots fire pixels at each other' as one reviewer described it. And M1TP doesn't do the 'floating reticle' for crossing targets of the real Abrams FCS (the original Steel Beasts didn't at the outset, buut added this in a patch) But M1TP2 still is a terrific tanksim with a lot of good features and is fun to play, even now.

Man, your graphics look gorgeous. I wish I could have this. I can only play with software emulation instead of nglide because Dxwnd doesn't really support it. If I play without Dxwnd, the main menu won't show up at the beginning. Oh, btw, any of you have the manual. I need figure out the shortcut key for each function.

Manual is here:

https://www.dropbox.com/home?preview=manual.pdf

I am using nglide but I get a CTD when starting a mission

What is the "Zeus patched 1.2 exe"? I have nGlide, by Zeus, but cannot find a reference to a specific M1TP2 1.2 ese file that has a "Zeus" patch applied. Am I misunderstanding the terminology, and this only means using the 1.2 version of M1TP2 with nGlide (from Zeus)??

Thanks for any help on this.

Eugene

I never got nglide to work. I am currently using dxwnd. It works fine under software emulation graphics. You can watch intro video and see the "quit" selection. No screwed color/texture. The only downside is you don't get as nice battle graphics/texture as lima got in his screen shot. I know dxwnd folks are working on something to fix the compatibility with nglide, but not sure how long it will take.

btw,lima. I can't access the manual you just posted. I clicked on the link. It took me to the dropbox, but I don't c anything.

I can see the manual on dropbox, if I log in.

Try here, instead, just uploaded it:

http://combatace.com/files/file/16342-m1-tank-platoon-manual/

Just played a campaign mission last night. Still can't remember half the keyboard commands so I'll have to read the manual myself! The map zoomed in and I didn't know how to zoom it out, so I lost track of what was happening and got my backside handed to me. The Apache did ok but couldn't save me; my A-10 got shot down. The MPS News report said the Soviets had got across Poland and were into the former East Germany, so it looks like I'll be having an interview without coffee with the CO.

Just noticed that (with Vista 64) another thing I'm using - as well as nGlide 1.01, W7ddpatcher (just to cure the psychedelic menu colour corruption, IIRC) - is a batch file, starter.bat, which IIRC was a suggestion posted earlier here.

It kills explorer.exe - opened, its contents read:

taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe
start /w M1TP2.exe
pause
start explorer.exe

The only other maybe notable things I have are:

8x CSAA antialiasing, 4x aniso filtering, aniso sample optimisation off, and negative LOD bias at Clamp - set in an Nvidia driver profile with everything else at default settings;

the 1.2 Zeus ppatched exe set to Win XP SP2 compatibility with both visual themes and desktop composition set to disabled;

...and the game installed in C:/Micropose/M1 Tank Platoon II, ie outside Program Files (x86), which is sometimes recommended for older games.