Hi, i mentioned this in another thread but it may be missed as that thread was referring to vmware. Well that isnt necessary now as m1tp2 can play in glorious glide graphics.and doesnt crash to desktop after completing a mission. How? Well the good man behind zeussoftware's nglide wrapper has made an experimental patch for both te 1.1 and 1.2 versions and they do seem to work well - these can found in the forum thread at the nglide site that i made in the problems section. i will attach it here soon though too.

I am not sure if anyone else is excited about this, but i am keen to play this a bit more between all the other sims i am resurrecting in my scant free time. No doubt this will be lost again with windows 8

Regards

oh sorry i dont know how to attach a zip - i guess just go the nglide forums and its there on page 4 of my m1tp2 thread posted by zeus

but i can post an image from the game in glide mode with nglide!

ohhhhh man...let me get that patch

heeeee hawwwww just applied the experimental patch to my 1.2 version game,in win7 machine(no virtualization) with ATI 7950 corei5 3570K and 32 GBs of ram, and this baby is up n running, just finished all the tutorials and started the campaign, no CTD as yet (fingers crossed) Will post more later

sounds great - indeed even if the game has an occasional ctd thats fine by me - knowing that one can generally now complete missions without it happening every time

Humm this sounds interesting and I do have a copy of M1TP2, how exactly do you install the experimental patch?

Okay figured it out and it looks just like I remembered it I have only messed with the static gunnery mission because I get a CTD right after the mission ends. I am using the M1TP2 1.2 patch in Win7 (no virtualization) 8gb of RAM and a Geforce GTX650 2gb, any suggestions?

Well, first time using nglide. M1TP2 ran but with the usual completely corrupted main menu. My old trick of hitting "alt f" repeatedly apparently still works - or else just passage of time and moving the mouse - to clear the corruption and get a clear menu. Using Glide mode, the missions look terrific. No problems with the layout of the map screen. Even the "Quit" button is present and working, back on the main menu.

Sadly, same old CTD at the end of missions. Just as with dgVoodoo. But I do believe the rendering of the sim world and menus is superior with nglide and the nglide Patch 2 version of the M1TP2 executable. But to not much avail, since no campaigning is possible and no debriefs, etc given the usual end of mission CTD.

I am also trying the bat file posted over on the nglide forum that was supposed to clear the menu corruption. Essentially, closing explorer.exe, presumably as the cause of the corruption. Not the case for me, unfortunately.

Note, I am using Win XP SP3, not Win7.

Although Steel Beasts Pro is my habitual and longtime sim of choice for modern armor sim, it would be fun to be able to break out M1TP2 from time to time. Perhaps something further will develop?

Eugene

Hmmm, i was hoping this fix would work across the board - damn!

With the experimental patch just simply rename the original exe in the game folder and put it there in its place. i also have the game in compatibility mode as xp service pack 2

I never had any success running dgvoodoo for m1tp2, i only use nglide.

i will play some more and see if i get any crashes.

Some people have used the app compatibility toolkit to tweak it - i have not had much success with that but others have.

well still no crashes a few missions on

i guess, make sure the graphics are set to 3DFX mode if you have nglide installed. I had nglide set to 1366x768

Also i am only playing the 1.1 version - its just so much better, air support is feral - to the point that if you are too close to an a10s area of attack it will line you up too by mistake, but once it comes in close enough it breaks off and looks for different targets - i like this friendly fire aspect it just means all the more that one needs to check where air support is attacking

You should be congratulated on your efforts Agathosdaimon with these old games.
I have to say that I was a HUGE fan of the original M1 Tank Platoon.
I lost count of the number of campaigns I completed in that one.
M1 Tank Platoon 2 left me cold for some reason and I never played it much at all.

As regards your near blue on blue incident,yes that does make it far more realistic and it is something I did encounter in the original game.
One of my tanks was destroyed by a friendly TOW missile,it was a complete WTF moment.

its funny that its those little details which make a game atmosphere great, i also liked the other things like noticing how enemy tanks would move to hide themselves behind other destroyed tanks. the only thing i did though wish was that other tanks in my platoon were a little more careful when backing into position - a good tactic would be to just ensure to slow down the set speed for the final waypoint.

oh indeed the first M1 Tank Platoon is also really good - i only got acquainted with it a few years ago through dosbox but was surprised with what it did entail.

One thing i got into also years ago was the m1edit program which not only made making new missions easy - making games with dozens of challengers, m1a2s and leopard going headon with scores of soviet columns was great fun , but also the mod let one modify the landscape and i was able to use it to increase the size and density of the towns and cities that the normal game only represents with a few buidings.

sorry, i think this is just a bit of initial excitement. I have just always wanted to get some old games working but left it as impossbile however through things like nglide, vmware, ACT and dosbox one has been able to get them working again.

@Agathosdaimon,

congrats on making one of the best tank sims work under a new environment. I got my copy to run under Vista but never tried nglide; I shall try that sometime later this week. Did you manage to get multiplayer going as well? I made several attempts using an IPX wrapper under Vista, but no luck so far

heya, thanks but thanks go also to Zeus over at Zeus software, i guess perhaps i had some insistence on it getting fixed as i knew it was possible but zeus knew what to do, i am not sure what he did but it saves the game.

I never tried multiplayer, never had a chance to ever do it with anyone though i wish i could have - back in the nineties, internet/modems were beyond the scope of our household and so i just never got to try that out. It must be do-able somehow.perhaps in virtual xp environment - nglide works just as well in vmware player i have found - though again the menus are a but screwed up but one can get around that

Is this title available as a download anywhere? I know M1TP original is available, but cannot find this one, aside from Ebay and Amazon.

Agathosdaimon, thanks for bringing this classic back to life. I had forgotten all about her.

I'm pretty sure that M1 Tank Platoon 2 is not abandonware (like M1 TP1) and that you won't find it,at least nowhere legal.

Amazon have it really cheap here in the UK,new @ £2.75 used @ £1.29.
It's a bit more for you I see @ $10.00.

Yeah, found torrents, but would prefer to find it on Steam or similar. I was hoping Best Buy or Fry's might have it available in the jewel case special. I'll look this week while Christmas shopping and if all else fails, will order off Amazon. Thanks Chucky.

My bad Agathosdaimon I installed the experimental patch incorrectly . After renaming the original M1TP2.exe I tried to move the new M1TP2.exe from the experimental patch into the game folder. It kept wanting to make it a short cut So today with a fresh mind I figured maybe I need to move BOTH the new M1TP2.exe and the new game.cfg into the game folder (there was already a game.cfg in there from a previous try I think ) low and behold it went right in there, played all the tutorial missions and no CTD after any of the tutorial mission. I'm ready to try a campaign

Well I'm envious! Glad you guys were able to get through missions complete and no CTD at debrief. I tried several different ones, all getting the same CTD once I hit Y(es) to end mission. Otherwise runs fine.

Would you success-mongers list your driver versions? Might get something that could help from them.

Thanks!