Updated 2/17/15 Panzer Commander WW2 tank sim by SSI - An the attempt to get it working on Windows 7 STATUS:Version 1 WORKS WELL : Unable to run setup to install the game.(FIXED BELOW) (Installing off CD fixed by placing this and running it in main install folder, - the one with setup in it and run this instead of actual setup.exe http://toastytech.com/files/Is3Engine.zip) Version 1.3 NEEDS WORK (Missing Turrets)
How I got it to work windows 7 64bit
1. Get Panzer Commander Internet, Amazon, Ebay an ISO file or whatever.. Beware some versions off the net are incomplete. 2. Install with old installshield posted above 3. next to get it to work on newer systems, you will have to basically turn all the anti alaising off and a lot of other stuff on your video card options for that program. Turn off Vertical Sync, vsync. 4. Do everything in this video for it to run better on 1 processor http://www.top-windows-tutorials.com/cpu-affinity/ 5. Download the latest patch version 1.3 all and patch it up. In game should say 1.3 now on loading screen http://www.datafilehost.com/d/f55c2e14 6. If you are having cd trouble or lost your cd use this no-cd fix http://megagames.com/fixes/panzer-commander-0 7. Download Dxtory to lower your fps way down to around 20-15fps 8. You need to run the game with Dxtory running minimized go into advance menu and put limit FPS to 9-15 around there. I have mine set at 9. Change processing threads to 1 not sure what it does. now on movie option tab type in the same fps as you put in your advanced section and check sync video fps 9. Version 1.3 has a huge missing turret and invisible ground problem, you know you are running 1.3 by particle effects when firing mg at building or red arrow on top of screen that point to distant enemy. Getting this version working without invisible stuff is what everyone is working on 10. have fun
If you are having trouble with game freezing with the external tank views or gunner views and blank sky screen you need to lower your FPS (dxtory) as well as graphic card setting for that program. If your game is shaking like crazy like mine was then it's your fps and use Dxtory or another fps lowering program
Thanks to the forum users who gave me guidance and knowledge on how to make this work
All Tanks/Cars playable - Navigate to your models directory in PzC open .vdf files in a text editor and navigate to where it says AFV and change that to the word TANK and save it. This will make the model human playable/drivable so you can use it in editor. In editor you must uncheck AI as a vehicle so it knows human is playing it. You can drive ANYTHING now. Over 90 types of US,Ger,Brit,Sov combined.
Un-Official Patch 1.4 (Mod) - Refer to readme 1.4 pdf in this zip. Graphical settings and pre settings improvement, 2 24bit terrains, stuart shadow fix http://www.datafilehost.com/d/4587dc95 uncheck download with manager to download..
1. Yes I have tried all of them with no avail to graphics problem, I have even tried cpukiller program. Nothing works to fix graphics problem.
2. Yes all aa disabled in nvidia settings. The horrible graphics flickering is the only problem and playability seems to be pretty good.
The funny thing is the faster I go or let ai go to waypoint, the more jittery the graphics get. If I drive slow or stop then I don't see the problem as much. I'm still trying a bunch of settings as of now.
after seeing longbow2 come back to life on newer systems and better than the original, this shouldn't left out. I'm trying different stuff, please post If you have this game going going good on vista 7 or 8.
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You said you tried CPUKiller. Did you set it low enough so your FPS were below 48 fps.
If I had to guess, the timing code did not expect a CPU cycle would ever be larger then an unsigned 32 bit.
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wow that is odd my fps doesn't normally show up in tank screen at bottom only with fraps on! Cpu killer doesn't help even at highest slow-down with fps. I set the affinity command to use only 1 processor on Panzer.exe shortcut but doesn't help with fast shaking of graphics and external view is gone I think everyone had a problem with that. I will to find an old d3d wrapper..
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A d3d wrapper allows direct 3D applications to run on OpenGl systems. I doubt that is going to help. Windows 7 ships with DirectX 10. DirectX 9 was the last version that was 100% backward compatible. If you don't already have that, you should grab it form MicroSoft.
By the looks of your video, the shaking is proportional to the fps shown. You could try opening other programs to slow down your CPU even more, and then check the fps while running fraps. You video looks much smoother when the fps are near 40.
Some old programs also have problems with page files and RAM that are larger then 2 gigs. I had to rewrite PEs configuration utility, because it would show a negative value if the video card had more then 2 gigs of ram.
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Thanks Britt44! I am happy to report that I was able to get this game running fine under windows 7 64. I reduced my FPS as Britt44 suggested using a program called Dxtory running minimized in tray. I was still having some trouble at 40FPS so I put limiter on 20FPS on the advanced and movie sections of the program. I'm currently going over other options in the program to fine tune it as well as lower or raising FPS more.
Able to use all in game settings with no problems including real physics .
Able to use external view chase cam with no blank color screen.
Jittery and dizzy graphics are gone when tank is moving fast.
Works 100% in Windows 7
The graphics are not so hot but this is a really fun game guys and the physics make it pretty nice.
You get almost 90 vehicles to play with or against!
The Germans have 27 vehicles The Soviets have 19 vehicles The US has 17 vehicles The British have 25 vehicles Different cannons and mg bunkers
-Career campaigns for each of those countries.
-Over 40 single mission scenarios for all the sides combines
-3 types of camo - desert, regular and snow for the vehicles.
-gives vehicle stats like gun type, armor and speed for each
-multi-player and comes with single mission/campaign builder
Incredible ! I'm trying to make it to work since some years now; Panzer Commander was my first tank simulator; I have played it again, again and again. And now, it works nicely with windows seven x64 bits and Dxtory (40fps) !
But, my only problem is that the turret of the tank is partially invisible and I could see some houses through the hills and forests. It seems I have some problem with d3d. How could I correct this problem ? have you some ideas John84 ?
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Make sure you patch it to 1.3 the latest. Turn all anti-aliasing off on graphics card for panzer commander. I was missing turrets and had see through turrets as well when I used compatibility mode. I unchecked compatibility mode and don't use it now. Also if you have more than 1 processor launch game using this http://www.top-windows-tutorials.com/cpu-affinity/
Also 40 fps was too high for me and would cause teh blank screen, had to turn it down to 15.
This is how my graphics card settings look maybe I can turn some on, I will have to experiment more. The see through hill problem is mentioned in the game FAQ. They really can't do much for that I guess. It doesn't happen very often I have noticed.
Amazon and Ebay have them, some with the manuals still. It's very hard to find any info on this game off the web. panzercommander.com doesn't exist anymore of course. I'm not sure if this is abandonware but my guess is that it is since company is no longer.
Here is a video. I did a scenario with snow and me playing as a sherman (jumbo sherman I think) team, panthers got me at the end after knocking out my engine. Still working on a way to improve the graphics while keeping the FPS down.
You can play as German, Soviet, US or British in campaign mode or single player missions as any of those as well.
I am going to change to gunner and loader voice to silence or just something shorter as it gets a bit annoying when you want them to search for targets by pressing T.
And here is a link to the Official Panzer Commander 1.3 patch. It will patch any earlier version to the latest 1.3 http://www.patches-scrolls.com/dl.php?file=pzc13all.zip&ref=ps Could not find the full 1.3 patch in existence off the web so uploaded it for anyone who wants it.
The readme is in the patch.
Please pm or post here if you have problems or questions
Make sure you patch it to 1.3 the latest. Turn all anti-aliasing off on graphics card for panzer commander. I was missing turrets and had see through turrets as well when I used compatibility mode. I unchecked compatibility mode and don't use it now. Also if you have more than 1 processor launch game using this http://www.top-windows-tutorials.com/cpu-affinity/
Also 40 fps was too high for me and would cause the blank screen, had to turn it down to 15.
This is how my graphics card settings look maybe I can turn some on, I will have to experiment more. The see through hill problem is mentioned in the game FAQ. They really can't do much for that I guess. It doesn't happen very often I have noticed.
Thank you very much for the quick reply ! In my haste, I forgot to tell you that my game is patched in....1.4 version... This is an unofficial version you have to find because it adds, corrects and improves a lot of things. I do not have the official list of changes and unfortunately I can not find a valid link to share to you and I have no more the version of this patch in my HD. In fact, I keep since years a version of the game previously patched in 1.4. I just have to re-install a basic version of the game and replace it with my 1.4 installation. I'm at work at the moment and I am very impatient to coming home to test your advice.
Btw, I have a gtx 680 eVGA classified (nvidia) and no problem at 40 fps for the while and no need for other utilities than the one you propose above. Need more tests perhaps. I'll report you later
Here the link of the guy who had realised the 1.4 version. A 1.5 version was in development but the guy has disapeared tragically....It is sad because the 1.5 promised...However, you could always download some new scenariis and a 26th Panzer Division career (26 additional scenariis) !
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Old geforce GT220 here. Thanks for the link but 1.4 doesn't look so great and it's unofficial. 1 problem I ran into during install was installing the windows 95 directx files. I think I am playing in software mode. I have seen the game from the old screenshots in 3dfx drivers and it looked a lot better. Is there a way to put the old drivers in the game folders and use the them instead.? Also voodoo 2 had one that chanced 16bit games to 32bit graphics. I have no clue which folder to or how to do this surgery. Voodoo 2 was confirmed to work with PzC. Perhaps any of these? http://www.falconfly.de/voodoo2.htm
Thanks for the link but 1.4 doesn't look so great and it's unofficial.
I could not let you tell that. You have to remember that at this '98 year, we all was equipped with 56k modem. Alex Hackenberg was a rare person to take a real interest in Pzc and to suggest mods for this game. For you, today, it is not GREAT, I could understand, but for us, it was awesome. What he proposed is not much and barely reaches some 37 mo but he still had created two new 24-bit maps for his campaigns, fixed the Stuart oversized shadow, added graphical and pre settings options and shared to us three campaigns; anzio with the 5th armored Division (US), the 1st Armoured Division (Brit) and the 15th Panzer Division (Ger). Now, I could enjoy more than 15 career from russian, german, british and us side !
Anyway, I have not managed to display the game properly by following your advices...Have to find an another way. Otherwise the game doesn't ctd anymore with Dxtory. This is a first step !
Thank you for that
By the way, I remembered last night, after our discussion, that at this time, I used CD-ROM to store my datas and I found this cd in my archive box with all the patches including version 1.4 ! If you're interested, let me know;)
Best regards,
Wörghern
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run the installer and place it in it's own folder. I have mine installed on my D drive, so you can install in prety much anywhere. Once installed, you will find a configuration program in the wrappers folder.
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Thanks for the info Worghern and Britt44. I'm not going to try with the 3dfx stuff I guess put so many glide.dll files on this machine before that, many on here already they are running into each other.
I just made ALL vehicles in the game playable. If anyone wants them to make missions with in editor. There are over 90 human playable now, and yes you can play half-tracks, armored cars and drive regular trucks around as well. If anyone is interested I will upload the files.
Hello. I was able to recreate your problem by using the game in windows 95 or 98 compatibility mode, just right click game exe and un-check the compatibility mode in the games icon properties. Why does windows 98 compatibility mode do this to the game? I am still trying to figure out. I have nothing checked at all in this tab. If you have run in 256 colors checked uncheck that also. An easy way to show how your vehicles will show up is just by using the view vehicles models tab before game.
Thanks John84, but, as I said to you I didn't use compatibility mode at ALL. And, I have this problem despite everything...Otherwise, no more CTD with Dxtory, this is a first step...if, I could resolve this display, it will be very nice !
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Thanks again for your advices Jo....I'm at work right now so I will test those tips when I'll come back home. I'll report you later ! Btw, I'm using 16 fps like you via Dxtory
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I had the 'displaced turret' problem trying to play PzC in XP. Now I have Vista 64 (GPU Nvidia 250 GTS) I don't have this problem (thanks to the tip on limiting FPS I no longer get a lockup starting a mission - 20 FPS set in Dxtory).
I'm using the PzC 1.4 unofficial patch which adds a longer view distance, more missions etc.
In the compatibility tab, I have ticked all of the following:
Panzer elite is a pretty neat game. I have played steel beasts in the past and originally was looking for a ww2 mod for that but it never happened. Arma 2 has a decent mod i44 with w2 tanks and infantry. The only problem I see in P.C. is the lack of troops and graphics but this was the 90's and was expected. I enjoy playing PC over panzer elite for some reason the playability for me is more enjoying. The problem with mods is that users start to modify the armor penetration values and then it starts to become more of an arcade game. I will check out that unoffical Panzer Commander patch 1.4 if you have a link? I will take playability and accuracy over graphics any day
Panzer elite is a pretty neat game. I have played steel beasts in the past and originally was looking for a ww2 mod for that but it never happened. Arma 2 has a decent mod i44 with w2 tanks and infantry. The only problem I see in P.C. is the lack of troops and graphics but this was the 90's and was expected. I enjoy playing PC over panzer elite for some reason the playability for me is more enjoying. The problem with mods is that users start to modify the armor penetration values and then it starts to become more of an arcade game. I will check out that unoffical Panzer Commander patch 1.4 if you have a link? I will take playability and accuracy over graphics any day
I would say that Steel Fury is playable and accurate too, though the more sophisticated commands take getting used to...and of course you have infantry a-plenty...
...and night missions, complete with illuminating rounds...
...and the occasional idiot who turns his lights on when he thinks the shooting has stopped...
Plus the AT guns aren't all in bunkers...unfortunately for this lot...
The thing I like about PzC - as with M1TP2 - is the overall package...in PzC's case, including a rousing musical score and a good range of well-presented single-player campaigns. And the vehicle physics are good, with nicely-animated track and vehicles which roll convincingly over the ground, with none of PE's 'cardboard tank teetering'. PE I thought a good deal better in every other respect, though, once modded.
I had the 'displaced turret' problem trying to play PzC in XP. Now I have Vista 64 (GPU Nvidia 250 GTS) I don't have this problem (thanks to the tip on limiting FPS I no longer get a lockup starting a mission - 20 FPS set in Dxtory).
I'm using the PzC 1.4 unofficial patch which adds a longer view distance, more missions etc. In the compatibility tab, I have ticked all of the following:
The last two settings may be worth trying, Worghern.
It's nice to be able to play the PzC Wittmann Villers Bocage mission again...
...but it's hard to go back to this... ...after playing this... ...or even this...
Still PzC can be fun. As can M1 Tank Platoon II...
...and of course, Panzer Elite...
Now, if only there was a way to get anti-aliasing or a higher screen resolution in Armored Fist 3, I'd be in tanksim nostalgia heaven..
Yeah, it seems we are talking the same language here ! I'm always playing all those games. You have forgotten iPanzer 44, Zeewolf's WWII Battle Tanks: T-34 vs TIGER and we should have to add T-72 Balkans in Fire, Sabow and Graviteam tactics. ok for the last, this is not a sim but a tactical sim. Otherwise, what a pleasure to see these beasts in action: T-55, T-62, M60, + all the ww2 stuff !
-Steel Fury : Karkhov 1942 + NTA -Zeewolf's WWII Battle Tanks: T-34 vs TIGER -Panzer Elite PE-X (too impatient to enjoy it with 1BobR's OSTPAK MOD) -Steel Armor:Blaze of War -Steel Beasts Pro 3.0 -iPanzer44 -Panzer Commander
...not authentic sims but very good immersion as well... -Invasion 44 -War Thunder (beautiful tanks!) -Iron Front (for Arma 3) -World of Tanks
-M1TPII -Armored fist 3
...and wait and see for Armored Warfare !
My prefered is definitively Steel Fury : Kharkov 1942 + NTA. As we said; Old love will never forget...
Thanks for the tips 33Lima, impatient to test it tomorrow !
Originally Posted By: john84
I will check out that unoffical Panzer Commander patch 1.4 if you have a link? I will take playability and accuracy over graphics any day
Trust me, you have to install it. Send me a PM and I'll share you a link with pleasure
Thank you again for this very interesting topic
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For some reason, I am getting the displaced turret graphic glitch again, from time to time. Not sure why - perhaps I satrted PzC too soon after starting DXtory, which seems to need a few seconds to 'settle down' after it has loaded; but exiting and re-starting PzC, always seems to fix it.
Glad to hear. Yes it must take a little time to settle in and work before game starts. I tried that patch-mod 1.4 and had no problems also installed the scenario pack and it was great. Saw the awesome sky as well and terrain.
The only problem I get is when I exit the game through menu, I get a dxtory.dll engine error and I fixed it with disabling vsync and triple buffering on graphic card options made it go away.
Also If I cycle between tank internal views real fast it freezes.
No other problems to report although someone needs to make a 32 bit graphics mod
Also one more thing I found that this game uses the old windows way to tab/minimize to desktop and the new way freezes it. I just double tab windows key if i need to minimize for a second. I don't remember the old way.
Dxtory hangs on exiting PzC leaving panzer.exe still running in Task Manager but is fine again when I end panzer.exe in TM. also the internal views are sort of superimposed with the external view visible around their edges.
Generally all seems well tho. started a 21st Panzer Div campaign and was immediately reminded how well the campaigns are presented, complete with text unit history and audio campaign intro.
We were in Panzer IIIs with the short 50mm gun. First mission was an advance to contact, in March 1941, part of Rommel's opening moves on arrival in Lybia.
Got the platoon into wedge formation and accelerated away. We actually had another platoon of Panzer IIIs on each flank. The boys on my left stopped and started shooting early on, engaging targets I couldn't see amidst the rolling sand dunes ahead.
As we neared the wadi ahead the right-hand platoon, which had kept moving, swung left and the six of us were mixed up for a while until I veered further left and created a bit more space for us.
The vehicle physics are most impressive with the suspension doing its thing and the tanks pitching gently as they move, slowing down going uphill and speeding up on the other side.
The controls are fairly simple too. I quite happily used the simple targeting mode in the external view, when we started to encounter the first British troops; a Bren Carrier then some infantry with emplaced Vickers Guns. The crew voices are basic but quite well done, likewise the sound effects, apart from the rather weak engine/track sounds.
Coming up to a village we encountered more MGs and light armour. Lurking just the other side was a Crusader tank, though, who knocked out my number two at very close range.
I tried to back up but ran into my number three. Swerving right I got behind a building then roared forward again right up beside the Crusader. The ensuing shoot-out degenerated into a bit of a farce with both of us hitting with no result...
...until I remembered that I was still firing the HE rounds I had loaded for the previous targets. A change to AP did the trick.
Rattling off again with my number 2 in tow again, we clobbered some more Vickers Guns as I slowly began to get the hang once more of PzC's keystrokes and platoon fire control capabilities.
The unbuttoned tank commander viewpoint is also a good position from which to fight in PzC. It's all coming back to me!
I was only credited with a partial success...
...but apart from the loss of one tank, the results had not been too bad...
Not a bad start to my 21st Panzer campaign - my first in Panzer Commander for about ten years!
The in-game graphics are pretty crude and I wish the German tanks didn't have those Hollywood turret and hull front crosses but it's fun, playable and effective...and oh, for the days when sims packaged their campaigns like Panzer Commander does!
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John84 alt-tab is the old way to swap screen focus. And, I would not be supprised if loosing focus causes a crash as there is a lot to reset on a modern video card.
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The vehicle physics are most impressive with the suspension doing its thing and the tanks pitching gently as they move, slowing down going uphill and speeding up on the other side.
I am fairly sure I member you having access to RockingHarry's physics scenerio where the concessus was that accelerating downhill in a manual transmission can only be done if the driver depresses the clutch or the driver lets the engine free rev, possibly causing catastrofic damage. WW2 tanks do not have jake brakes.
I don't mind getting bashed for not releasing the build that half fixed the pivot speed
but I do take acception at the cardbord tanks comment, combined with the accelerate down hill as impressive, comment. Considering, that you helped beta this ancient piece of code.
Code:
if (Slope>5.0f)
{
MaxSpeed*=1.0f+(lpCSV->Weight/(91.0f-Slope));
if (MaxSpeed>lpCSV->MaxSpeedRoad && Slope<60.0f)
MaxSpeed=lpCSV->MaxSpeedRoad;
}
Sorry if my ego got the better of me, but every released map in existance for PE is basicly graphics over hard packed earth.. I took this long to write this, I might as well post it.
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#3977956 - 07/08/1410:25 AMRe: Panzer Commander on Windows 7?
[Re: 33lima]
For some reason, I am getting the displaced turret graphic glitch again, from time to time. Not sure why - perhaps I satrted PzC too soon after starting DXtory, which seems to need a few seconds to 'settle down' after it has loaded; but exiting and re-starting PzC, always seems to fix it.
Nothing to do for me.....Always the same problem with displaced turret graphic glitch again and again and again....I test everything...I despair completely because when I see your screens, it remember me too much souvenirs...
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I'm not sure what your issue is with a vehicle which has slowed, going up a slope, speeding up again, when the slope disappears or reverses - seems perfectly reasonable.
As for 'cardboard tanks' in PE, I don't recall RockingHarry's mod although I do remember we discussed this years back I still see tanks move jerkily at times, like they are teetering on the edge of a sharp fold in the ground - the effect of angular spots in PE terrain combined with that hard-packed earth...and perhaps vehicle suspension issues? Albeit nowadays that is in PE3, where terrain also seems often to exercise considerable drag, slowing down tanks below their pre-PE3 speed. I recall you mentioned the likely cause of the latter effect, some re-working in in PE3 being needed.
Not being a great fan of the eastern front I would happily play PE-x with stock Italy, Full Monty and (my favourite) Britpak '44 - is it right that these mods would need to be re-worked, to be compatible with your new 'exe?
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33Lima, the only issue I have with reverse slope acceration is that it needs to be assumed that the driver is making some effort not too free rev the engine and control the decent speed. There is a line of thought by rivit counters that rag doll physics need to let the unit free fall unless the player makes some input.
You can play the original Italy campaign using PEx, PP2x or PE3. PP2X has the most work at improving that campaign.
Sorry if I hijacked the thread.
TPA who TWI "The 10th Amendment simply says that any powers that aren’t mentioned in the Constitution as belonging to the government belong to the states themselves."
Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 1,506Brit44 'Aldo'
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In the real footage, don't let the cameraman recoil fool you. Watch the Tiger and compare it's movement to a fixed point. It would be sweet is SF's camera moved slightly, similar to the camerman.
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TPA who TWI "The 10th Amendment simply says that any powers that aren’t mentioned in the Constitution as belonging to the government belong to the states themselves."
Yes that's exactly what I mean. The camera jerks but the hull of the Tiger in the Propagandakompanie film doesn't seem to move at all, nor does the second cameraman, when he's standing on the rear deck. By comparison, the CM clip, tho superficially convincing, looks very exaggerated.
33Lima, the only issue I have with reverse slope acceration is that it needs to be assumed that the driver is making some effort not too free rev the engine and control the decent speed. There is a line of thought by rivit counters that rag doll physics need to let the unit free fall unless the player makes some input.
You can play the original Italy campaign using PEx, PP2x or PE3. PP2X has the most work at improving that campaign.
Sorry if I hijacked the thread.
And now I'm straying further off topic here...but is it not currently possible to play PE-x with Britpak '44 (or Monty -vs- Rommel)...other than by using PE3?
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Quote:
By comparison, the CM clip, tho superficially convincing, looks very exaggerated.
Agree, but when your 3D model does not have a seperate gun barrel object to recoil, your only option is to rock the entire tank.
TPA who TWI "The 10th Amendment simply says that any powers that aren’t mentioned in the Constitution as belonging to the government belong to the states themselves."
For some reason, I am getting the displaced turret graphic glitch again, from time to time. Not sure why - perhaps I satrted PzC too soon after starting DXtory, which seems to need a few seconds to 'settle down' after it has loaded; but exiting and re-starting PzC, always seems to fix it.
Nothing to do for me.....Always the same problem with displaced turret graphic glitch again and again and again....I test everything...I despair completely because when I see your screens, it remember me too much souvenirs...
Tho said to be for XP, you might want to try this workaround posted on Tanksim.com by user Hinrich Schwab:
No good, then. Have you installed DX 9.0c yet? all of it? IIRC Rise of Flight re-installs 9.0c with every RoF update so I have that. As you probably know, multiple versions of DX are said to be able to co-exist at the same time. Maybe you need an earlier version, although DXdiag just reports the most recent (DX 11 in my case, with Vista 64).
Hmmm, if I deactivate directdraw...the display is...psychedelic
BTW, it is not possible to change directly the directdraw cause it's included in windows seven...So, I have to install directx.cpl from directx9.0c..
Worghern,
Only DirectDraw Acceleration should be disabled. I would not disable DirectDraw entirely. The "psychedelic color" issue is an old DirectDraw compatibility issue that showed up with Vista. I am running Panzer Commander on two Windows 7 rigs with no issues. I would suggest making sure that DirectX is fully up to date on your rig, as well as your video drivers. Along with ensuring that only DirectDraw Acceleration is disabled, I would suggest changing the color depth to 16 Bit, for the sake of compatibility.
Windows seven x64 include directx 9.0c, directx 10 and 11 already. Directx is fully up to date in my system and my gtx 680 classified is up to the last drivers 340.52. I have checked all of these but nothing to do. of course, I deactivate only ddraw.I have change my desktop display to 16 bits but nothing to do. This is different but alays psychedelic crappy thing on game...However, I would like to thank you very much for your help Hope we will find a solution !
Last edited by Worghern; 07/30/1409:24 AM.
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Windows seven x64 include directx 9.0c, directx 10 and 11 already. Directx is fully up to date in my system and my gtx 680 classified is up to the last drivers 340.52. I have checked all of these but nothing to do. of course, I deactivate only ddraw.I have change my desktop display to 16 bits but nothing to do. This is different but alays psychedelic crappy thing on game...However, I would like to thank you very much for your help Hope we will find a solution !
Unfortunately, the only thing I can determine is a hardware conflict with your graphics card, which cannot be resolved. I have seen similar oddball compatibility issues with both Destroyer Command and Silent Hunter II, which use the same Janus-based engine as Panzer Commander. I have run Panzer Commander successfully on the following rigs:
Two (2) Toshiba L25-S1216s @1.6GHZ, 1.5GB RAM w/ ATI RADEON Xpress 200 (a very low end integrated graphics chip from the mid-2000s) running Windows XP Service Pack 3 and the latest versions of DirectX 9.0C and OEM drivers.
One (1) Toshiba C655 @2.3GHZ, 4GB RAM w/ Intel Graphics running Windows 7 Service Pack 1 with latest drivers and DirectX
One (1) EMachines W3503 @3.4GHZ, 2.0GB RAM w/ NVIDIA GeForce 210 (ATI Radeon Xpress 200 disabled) running Windows XP Service Pack 3 with latest NVIDIA drivers and DirectX. ***This NIVIDA Card has known hardware compatibility issues with Ultimation's Sim Engine (Silent Hunter II, Destroyer Command and Panzer Commander*** [see note below] This machine did not experience the known compatibility issues associated with this card for Panzer Commander.
One (1) ASUS G60 JX with 2.3GHZ Quad Core Intel Core i5 (1st Gen), 4GM RAM w/ NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M running both latest drivers and OEM 187.66 drivers (OEM drivers currently running to work around BSOD issues with newer, universal NIVIDIA drivers) with Windows 7 Service Pack 1 and DirectX up to date.
[NOTE: The NVidia cards have a sketchy history running Ultimation's sim engine. In the case of the GeForce 210, all three games run fine...in stock. When the "Projekt Messerwetzer" patch from SubSim is applied to either Silent Hunter II or Destroyer Command, the transparent polygon bug appears, as well as numerous graphics artifacts that make the menus useless. It is a known hardware incompatibility.]
I am confident with the fixes I have recommended on Subsim and have been passed to here. To be quite frank, it sounds like your graphics card is encountering the same, nasty hardware incompatibility I and others have observed with some Nvidia cards running the Ultimation sim engine. There are no fixes for it. To be fair, the psychedelic color glitch is something I have not encountered with polygon-based games. It is prevalent in sprite-based games, however.
As a last resort, I will add the registry entries for forcing DirectDraw compatibility for the game. I observed on all of the above machines that particles do render better with the registry patches, although the game runs fine without it. Again, only the machines running XP required disabling DirectDraw Acceleration. the Windows 7 machines required no adjustments.
Panzer Commander DirectDraw Compatibility entry x86 Save as, "Panzer Commander x86 Registry Patch.REG"
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\DirectDraw\Compatibility\PanzerCommander]
"Name"="panzer.exe"
"Flags"=hex:00,08,00,00
"ID"=dword:374454a3
Panzer Commander DirectDraw Compatibility entry x64 Save as, "Panzer Commander x64 Registry Patch.REG"
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\DirectDraw\Compatibility\PanzerCommander]
"Name"="panzer.exe"
"Flags"=hex:00,08,00,00
"ID"=dword:374454a3
Bear in mind that BOTH registry patches are needed for 64-bit operating systems. 32-bit operating systems only need the x86 patch.
Given your hardware and my awareness of known conflicts, I do not think this will help, although others may find them useful. I suspect strongly that your video card's hardware is the problem and little can be done to rectify this issue.
front page now tells you since later versions of windows won;t run setup.exe you need to copy everything from cd and put it in a folder on your pc. then run uni-extract on setup.exe to extract files into the folder.
still working on a better method for turrets to become visbile
Also the game is listed as working with 3DFX, If I could play longbow 2 with 3dfx on windows 7, this game should work . We need to figure out a way to activate 3dfx mode on this game. Still a long ways to go...
i havent been on thnis forum in a long while, its great to come bakc and see this - i have panzer commander and could install it but never could get it to work - i will try this now!
There are still many problems that the community hopefully could help sort out. New ways fixes etc. My fix on front page isn't the best. If you have a fix please post the steps or files..
Sorry for upping an old thread but any more news on this one? I tried today to get it working, Got it stable on Win10-x64, but i have the same problem as Worghern, Turret is not visible and terrain is clipping!
I noticed that mods like the 1.4 patch and the Skypack as well as later scenarios are difficult to locate online. I recently found all my old files for the 1.4 patch, scenarios, and Skypack for the game and wonder if these couldn't be hosted somewhere for the benefit of those who would like to try this game or longtime fans who would like to see it not disappear as seemingly has Alex Hakkenburg (sp?) who created most of these.
Sorry for upping an old thread but any more news on this one? I tried today to get it working, Got it stable on Win10-x64, but i have the same problem as Worghern, Turret is not visible and terrain is clipping!
what a coincidence i have just been working on finding a fix for this one on the weekend and with the help of another forum thread over VOGONS https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=44052 i have gotten it fixed and running on windows 10 - no crashes and no invisible textures! finally after all these years - and whats great is that you have now two options for getting Panzer Commander to work - i was trying with DXWND, but just couldnt solve the textures issue, so i raised it on the dxwnd discussion forum (this was before i foudn the VOGONS thread) and Gho there, the creator of dxwnd has discovered the cause of the texture issue and DXWND can solve it (along with using a ddraw.dll file that you can get from either the ddwrapper mentioned in the VOGONS thread or grabbing it from the Dgvoodoo wrapper zip file. https://sourceforge.net/p/dxwnd/discussion/general/thread/8ad18d1f4f/?limit=25#3046
you can even use dxwnd to have the game recognise a disk image rather than the physical disk - i have hte physical disk, but if choose to just use an image instead i have to select in the i/o section of dxwnd to hide empty drives.
i hope you will have much success now with getting panzer commander working
(if you go with the VOGONs thread option then also just note to keep the option of forcing directdraw emulation set to '0' in the config file for the wrapper if you wish to use hardware graphics acceleration in the game and not software mode)
hi yeah, its weird i actually did get it working with acceleration going for a moment using the DDwrapper option but now i cant seem to replicate it so i dont know what happened there, will just have to stick with directdraw software mode for now - unless i get dxtory which sounds like a way to fix it all but its expensive to buy
Idem. I can't play it correctly in fullscreen. Acceleration has never worked for me. But It runs . This is the first step after all....I tried many, many things but nothing to do. Could you tell me what did u use to make it work without ctd ?
Thanks for your help.
PS: i'm trying to make it work with M1tp2 but douldn't find the way to make it work with high resolution...
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for me i had to use the CDrom for Panzer Commander outside of DXwnd
if you get it working through Dxwnd there is a option to hide empty cd drives so then you can use a CD rom image
M1 TP2 is working very well through Dxwnd now too - there is a youtube vid showing this and the person has the dxwnd m1tp2 config file they use for it and it works and works fine with Glide option too (you must have nglide installed of course) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQgzIAn2gcs&t=530s
Hi Guys, i know this thread is old, but could someone post the actual easiest way to get Panzer Commander and maybe Panzer44 to work under Windows 10 or maybe Win98 VM? Thanks in advance!
So I'm working on recovering the old Wargamer Scenario Depot.
These are the missions that were on the Wargamer Depot for Panzer Commander; broken down by what I could recover:
Out of 165 downloads, only 13 (7.8%) were recovered.
If you have any of the missing stuff, can you please PM me? Thanks.
HAVE 86 - Panzer Commander: Knights Cross for Richter. 416 - Panzer Commander: Snow Hunters 449 - Panzer Commander: Rough Encounter 472 - Panzer Commander: 2nd Pzr Div Mini Career In Ardenn 480 - Panzer Commander: Breaking The Pocket 483 - Panzer Commander: Winter Wolves 490 - Panzer Commander: Snow Fight 484 - Panzer Commander: Against All Odds 1390 - Panzer Commander: Operation Market-Garden 2274 - Panzer Commander: Stalingrad 2278 - Panzer Commander: Carentan 2280 - Panzer Commander: Utah Beach 2311 - Panzer Commander: Ludendorff Bridge
MISSING 1035 - Panzer Commander: Watch Out Ivan 1137 - Panzer Commander: Death Camp Defense 1169 - Panzer Commander: Duel At Singling 1171 - Panzer Commander: Werewolf 1181 - Panzer Commander: Tractor Factory 1186 - Panzer Commander: Take Krivoyrog 1187 - Panzer Commander: Montecassino, the British 1188 - Panzer Commander: Die Wacht am Rhein 1189 - Panzer Commander: Fruhlingserwachen 1190 - Panzer Commander: Rakowo-Kruglik Road 1191 - Panzer Commander: Tractor Factory 1193 - Panzer Commander: Montecassino, the Germans 1194 - Panzer Commander: Autumn Fog 1200 - Panzer Commander: Overrun! 1204 - Panzer Commander: To the Death 1206 - Panzer Commander: Siege of Leningrad 1210 - Panzer Commander: The House of Cards 1244 - Panzer Commander: Colmar Pockett: German Counter-Attack 1255 - Panzer Commander: Clash at Ponyri 1321 - Panzer Commander: Belfort: French attack 1354 - Panzer Commander: Caucasian Adventure 1365 - Panzer Commander: Somewhere in France 1386 - Panzer Commander: Falaise: Polish Attack 1407 - Panzer Commander: Stalking Hunters 1437 - Panzer Commander: Run for your life 1439 - Panzer Commander: Argentan: Closing the Trap 1460 - Panzer Commander: Montecassino, the Americans 1523 - Panzer Commander: PzAbt504 1536 - Panzer Commander: Berdichev/Wittmann attacks II 1558 - Panzer Commander: Battle for Hannut 1559 - Panzer Commander: Sorry Heinz! 1571 - Panzer Commander: Tiger II Campaign 1592 - Panzer Commander: Semiloeki 1604 - Panzer Commander: Wittmann Attacks 1605 - Panzer Commander: Malinava 1607 - Panzer Commander: Dead by Dawn 1608 - Panzer Commander: Rescue Operation 1609 - Panzer Commander: Tigers Before Tunis 1619 - Panzer Commander: Nikolajewka 1624 - Panzer Commander: Seek and Destroy 1635 - Panzer Commander: Rescue C Sector 1643 - Panzer Commander: 7 Training Missions 1668 - Panzer Commander: Haricot du Vadenay (France - Marne) 1686 - Panzer Commander: Rolling Thunder 1689 - Panzer Commander: Convoy 1753 - Panzer Commander: Knights Cross for Kloskowski 1758 - Panzer Commander: Task Force Fooley 1850 - Panzer Commander: Task Force Fooley 1861 - Panzer Commander: Knights Cross for Kloskowski 1873 - Panzer Commander: Siegfried Line 1874 - Panzer Commander: Russian Aggression 1875 - Panzer Commander: Ardennes Forest 1876 - Panzer Commander: Operation Sealion 1877 - Panzer Commander: Kursk 1881 - Panzer Commander: Achtung Iwan! 1963 - Panzer Commander: Antwerp 2012 - Panzer Commander: Immer weiter 2013 - Panzer Commander: Showdown at Wassiljewska 2094 - Panzer Commander: Soviet Campaign in Hungary 2162 - Panzer Commander: North France 2196 - Panzer Commander: Casino, American Version 2197 - Panzer Commander: Casino, German Version 2198 - Panzer Commander: Finnish Me 2199 - Panzer Commander: Fire in Korea 2200 - Panzer Commander: Isreali Desert 2201 - Panzer Commander: Mad Maze 2202 - Panzer Commander: Red Korea 2203 - Panzer Commander: Waltz for the Airbase 2273 - Panzer Commander: Sicily 2275 - Panzer Commander: Forward Defense 2276 - Panzer Commander: Steppe This Way 2277 - Panzer Commander: The Bulge 2279 - Panzer Commander: Falaise South 2312 - Panzer Commander: Dieppe 458 - Panzer Commander: Schwerer Gegner 501 - Panzer Commander: Prelude To The End 519 - Panzer Commander: 26th Panzer Division Career 556 - Panzer Commander: Relief Of The 6th Army 559 - Panzer Commander: Before The Siege Of Stalingrad v1.1 562 - Panzer Commander: Clash Of The Titans 587 - Panzer Commander: Last Phase Of Operation Citadel 593 - Panzer Commander: Götterdämmerung Bei Küstrin 610 - Panzer Commander: 10th SS Division Frundsberg Career 623 - Panzer Commander: s.Pz.Abt 502-Leningrad Front 635 - Panzer Commander: Suply Line Defense 642 - Panzer Commander: Gardony 646 - Panzer Commander: East Of Charkow 650 - Panzer Commander: Ruweisat 651 - Panzer Commander: The Battle For Moscow 671 - Panzer Commander: Foolhardy Game 684 - Panzer Commander: Panzer Lehr Attacks 686 - Panzer Commander: Forced Halt To Epsom 690 - Panzer Commander: Ersten Angriff 699 - Panzer Commander: Soskut 700 - Panzer Commander: Frontal Encirclement 704 - Panzer Commander: Balabonowka Pocket 706 - Panzer Commander: Voronehz 707 - Panzer Commander: Ponyri v1.1 709 - Panzer Commander: The Village v1.1 710 - Panzer Commander: Dnjepr Defense 711 - Panzer Commander: Ubiyat Adolfa 712 - Panzer Commander: Operation Blue 717 - Panzer Commander: Samoschje 718 - Panzer Commander: Onto The Hill 722 - Panzer Commander: St. Vith 723 - Panzer Commander: Demyansk 724 - Panzer Commander: Hopeless Defense 730 - Panzer Commander: Barbarossa At Russian Siege 738 - Panzer Commander: Sickle Stroke 741 - Panzer Commander: The Battle For Caen 742 - Panzer Commander: Barkmann's Endurance 744 - Panzer Commander: Wittman's Entrance 745 - Panzer Commander: Johny Redford 746 - Panzer Commander: Prowling Tiger 748 - Panzer Commander: Aprillia Higway 749 - Panzer Commander: Outpost 752 - Panzer Commander: St. Laurent 757 - Panzer Commander: Närrisch Erzälung 758 - Panzer Commander: Easy Hazzard 759 - Panzer Commander: Buzzing Joe 762 - Panzer Commander: Sub Hunter 773 - Panzer Commander: Crouching Tiger 780 - Panzer Commander: Cintheaux 781 - Panzer Commander: Prediction 787 - Panzer Commander: Wzdiy Probyppoboat 795 - Panzer Commander: Gamblers Risk 806 - Panzer Commander: Stockinghole 816 - Panzer Commander: Tommy Cookers 817 - Panzer Commander: 12th Guards Campaign Mod 1.0 822 - Panzer Commander: Fire Test 831 - Panzer Commander: Outrageous 837 - Panzer Commander: Su-85 Campaign 839 - Panzer Commander: Two Glorious Minutes 843 - Panzer Commander: Bulge Of Fire 844 - Panzer Commander: Krasnoarmeskoje 845 - Panzer Commander: Jerry's Fear 847 - Panzer Commander: Fire Tank 848 - Panzer Commander: Fray Of Death 853 - Panzer Commander: Withdrawal 855 - Panzer Commander: Marne Encounter 857 - Panzer Commander: Le Cateau 860 - Panzer Commander: Red Heat 862 - Panzer Commander: Koniev´s Disapointment 863 - Panzer Commander: Junkyard 864 - Panzer Commander: Scheindell Road 872 - Panzer Commander: Battle Of Totensonntag 874 - Panzer Commander: StuG Campaign 885 - Panzer Commander: Ten Minutes Of Fire 889 - Panzer Commander: Thrust To The Coast 891 - Panzer Commander: The Second Attack 939 - Panzer Commander: StuG Campaign Grossdeutschland 955 - Panzer Commander: They Are Coming
2.) A Internet Archive Downloader Dump in April 2021 to recover what was stored on the Internet Archive's backups.
Out of 165 downloads, only 13 (7.8%) were recovered directly from the two above sources. However, a post on the SimHQ.com forums brought me into contact with the user "33lima", who sent me two ZIP files containing Panzer Commander Scenarios, from which I was able to recover x more scenarios, bringing the final total to 77 recovered (46%).
BONUS: Two ZIP files that I received from "33Lima" containing Panzer Commander Scenarios. Liebstandarte Campaign Panzer Commander v1.06 Beginner's Guide
HAVE 86 - Panzer Commander: Knights Cross for Richter. 416 - Panzer Commander: Snow Hunters 449 - Panzer Commander: Rough Encounter 472 - Panzer Commander: 2nd Pzr Div Mini Career In Ardenn 480 - Panzer Commander: Breaking The Pocket 483 - Panzer Commander: Winter Wolves 490 - Panzer Commander: Snow Fight 484 - Panzer Commander: Against All Odds 822 - Panzer Commander: Fire Test (Recovered via 33Lima) 839 - Panzer Commander: Two Glorious Minutes (Recovered via 33Lima) 843 - Panzer Commander: Bulge Of Fire (Recovered via 33Lima) 844 - Panzer Commander: Krasnoarmeskoje (Recovered via 33Lima) 845 - Panzer Commander: Jerry's Fear (Recovered via 33Lima) 847 - Panzer Commander: Fire Tank (Recovered via 33Lima) 848 - Panzer Commander: Fray Of Death (Recovered via 33Lima) 855 - Panzer Commander: Marne Encounter (Recovered via 33Lima) 857 - Panzer Commander: Le Cateau (Recovered via 33Lima) 862 - Panzer Commander: Koniev´s Disapointment (Recovered via 33Lima) 863 - Panzer Commander: Junkyard (Recovered via 33Lima) 864 - Panzer Commander: Scheindell Road (Recovered via 33Lima) 872 - Panzer Commander: Battle Of Totensonntag (Recovered via 33Lima) 885 - Panzer Commander: Ten Minutes Of Fire (Recovered via 33Lima) 889 - Panzer Commander: Thrust To The Coast (Recovered via 33Lima) 891 - Panzer Commander: The Second Attack (Recovered via 33Lima) 955 - Panzer Commander: They Are Coming (Recovered via 33Lima) 1035 - Panzer Commander: Watch Out Ivan (Recovered via 33Lima) 1137 - Panzer Commander: Death Camp Defense (Recovered via 33Lima) 1169 - Panzer Commander: Duel At Singling (Recovered via 33Lima) 1171 - Panzer Commander: Werewolf (Recovered via 33Lima) 1181 - Panzer Commander: Tractor Factory (Recovered via 33Lima) 1186 - Panzer Commander: Take Krivoyrog (Recovered via 33Lima) 1188 - Panzer Commander: Die Wacht am Rhein (Recovered via 33Lima) 1189 - Panzer Commander: Fruhlingserwachen (Recovered via 33Lima) 1194 - Panzer Commander: Autumn Fog (Recovered via 33Lima) 1200 - Panzer Commander: Overrun! (Recovered via 33Lima) 1204 - Panzer Commander: To the Death (Recovered via 33Lima) 1210 - Panzer Commander: The House of Cards (Recovered via 33Lima) 1255 - Panzer Commander: Clash at Ponyri (Recovered via 33Lima) 1321 - Panzer Commander: Belfort: French attack (Recovered via 33Lima) 1354 - Panzer Commander: Caucasian Adventure (Recovered via 33Lima) 1365 - Panzer Commander: Somewhere in France (Recovered via 33Lima) 1390 - Panzer Commander: Operation Market-Garden 1407 - Panzer Commander: Stalking Hunters (Recovered via 33Lima) 1558 - Panzer Commander: Battle for Hannut (Recovered via 33Lima) 1559 - Panzer Commander: Sorry Heinz! (Recovered via 33Lima) 1592 - Panzer Commander: Semiloeki (Recovered via 33Lima) 1604 - Panzer Commander: Wittmann Attacks (Recovered via 33Lima) 1605 - Panzer Commander: Malinava (Recovered via 33Lima) 1607 - Panzer Commander: Dead by Dawn (Recovered via 33Lima) 1608 - Panzer Commander: Rescue Operation (Recovered via 33Lima) 1609 - Panzer Commander: Tigers Before Tunis (Recovered via 33Lima) 1619 - Panzer Commander: Nikolajewka (Recovered via 33Lima) 1624 - Panzer Commander: Seek and Destroy (Recovered via 33Lima) 1668 - Panzer Commander: Haricot du Vadenay (France - Marne) (Recovered via 33Lima) 1686 - Panzer Commander: Rolling Thunder (Recovered via 33Lima) 1689 - Panzer Commander: Convoy (Recovered via 33Lima) 1753 - Panzer Commander: Knights Cross for Kloskowski (Recovered via 33Lima) 1758 - Panzer Commander: Task Force Fooley (Recovered via 33Lima) 1873 - Panzer Commander: Siegfried Line (Recovered via 33Lima) 1874 - Panzer Commander: Russian Aggression (Recovered via 33Lima) 1875 - Panzer Commander: Ardennes Forest (Recovered via 33Lima) 1876 - Panzer Commander: Operation Sealion (Recovered via 33Lima) 1877 - Panzer Commander: Kursk (Recovered via 33Lima) 1881 - Panzer Commander: Achtung Iwan! (Recovered via 33Lima) 1963 - Panzer Commander: Antwerp (Recovered via 33Lima) 2012 - Panzer Commander: Immer weiter (Recovered via 33Lima) 2013 - Panzer Commander: Showdown at Wassiljewska (Recovered via 33Lima) 2162 - Panzer Commander: North France (maybe recovered via Lima 33?) 2197 - Panzer Commander: Casino, German Version (Recovered via 33Lima) 2198 - Panzer Commander: Finnish Me (Recovered via 33Lima) 2274 - Panzer Commander: Stalingrad 2276 - Panzer Commander: Steppe This Way (Recovered via 33Lima) 2278 - Panzer Commander: Carentan 2279 - Panzer Commander: Falaise South (Recovered via 33Lima) 2280 - Panzer Commander: Utah Beach 2311 - Panzer Commander: Ludendorff Bridge 2312 - Panzer Commander: Dieppe (Recovered via 33Lima)
MISSING 458 - Panzer Commander: Schwerer Gegner 501 - Panzer Commander: Prelude To The End 519 - Panzer Commander: 26th Panzer Division Career 556 - Panzer Commander: Relief Of The 6th Army 559 - Panzer Commander: Before The Siege Of Stalingrad v1.1 562 - Panzer Commander: Clash Of The Titans 587 - Panzer Commander: Last Phase Of Operation Citadel 593 - Panzer Commander: Götterdämmerung Bei Küstrin 610 - Panzer Commander: 10th SS Division Frundsberg Career 623 - Panzer Commander: s.Pz.Abt 502-Leningrad Front 635 - Panzer Commander: Suply Line Defense 642 - Panzer Commander: Gardony 646 - Panzer Commander: East Of Charkow 650 - Panzer Commander: Ruweisat 651 - Panzer Commander: The Battle For Moscow 671 - Panzer Commander: Foolhardy Game 684 - Panzer Commander: Panzer Lehr Attacks 686 - Panzer Commander: Forced Halt To Epsom 690 - Panzer Commander: Ersten Angriff 699 - Panzer Commander: Soskut 700 - Panzer Commander: Frontal Encirclement 704 - Panzer Commander: Balabonowka Pocket 706 - Panzer Commander: Voronehz 707 - Panzer Commander: Ponyri v1.1 709 - Panzer Commander: The Village v1.1 710 - Panzer Commander: Dnjepr Defense 711 - Panzer Commander: Ubiyat Adolfa 712 - Panzer Commander: Operation Blue 717 - Panzer Commander: Samoschje 718 - Panzer Commander: Onto The Hill 722 - Panzer Commander: St. Vith 723 - Panzer Commander: Demyansk 724 - Panzer Commander: Hopeless Defense 730 - Panzer Commander: Barbarossa At Russian Siege 738 - Panzer Commander: Sickle Stroke 741 - Panzer Commander: The Battle For Caen 742 - Panzer Commander: Barkmann's Endurance 744 - Panzer Commander: Wittman's Entrance 745 - Panzer Commander: Johny Redford 746 - Panzer Commander: Prowling Tiger 748 - Panzer Commander: Aprillia Higway 749 - Panzer Commander: Outpost 752 - Panzer Commander: St. Laurent 757 - Panzer Commander: Närrisch Erzälung 758 - Panzer Commander: Easy Hazzard 759 - Panzer Commander: Buzzing Joe 762 - Panzer Commander: Sub Hunter 773 - Panzer Commander: Crouching Tiger 780 - Panzer Commander: Cintheaux 781 - Panzer Commander: Prediction 787 - Panzer Commander: Wzdiy Probyppoboat 795 - Panzer Commander: Gamblers Risk 806 - Panzer Commander: Stockinghole 816 - Panzer Commander: Tommy Cookers 817 - Panzer Commander: 12th Guards Campaign Mod 1.0 831 - Panzer Commander: Outrageous 837 - Panzer Commander: Su-85 Campaign 853 - Panzer Commander: Withdrawal 860 - Panzer Commander: Red Heat 874 - Panzer Commander: StuG Campaign 939 - Panzer Commander: StuG Campaign Grossdeutschland 1187 - Panzer Commander: Montecassino, the British 1190 - Panzer Commander: Rakowo-Kruglik Road 1191 - Panzer Commander: Tractor Factory 1193 - Panzer Commander: Montecassino, the Germans 1206 - Panzer Commander: Siege of Leningrad 1244 - Panzer Commander: Colmar Pockett: German Counter-Attack 1386 - Panzer Commander: Falaise: Polish Attack 1437 - Panzer Commander: Run for your life 1439 - Panzer Commander: Argentan: Closing the Trap 1460 - Panzer Commander: Montecassino, the Americans 1523 - Panzer Commander: PzAbt504 1536 - Panzer Commander: Berdichev/Wittmann attacks II 1571 - Panzer Commander: Tiger II Campaign 1635 - Panzer Commander: Rescue C Sector 1643 - Panzer Commander: 7 Training Missions 1850 - Panzer Commander: Task Force Fooley 1861 - Panzer Commander: Knights Cross for Kloskowski 2094 - Panzer Commander: Soviet Campaign in Hungary 2196 - Panzer Commander: Casino, American Version 2199 - Panzer Commander: Fire in Korea 2200 - Panzer Commander: Isreali Desert 2201 - Panzer Commander: Mad Maze 2202 - Panzer Commander: Red Korea 2203 - Panzer Commander: Waltz for the Airbase 2273 - Panzer Commander: Sicily 2275 - Panzer Commander: Forward Defense 2277 - Panzer Commander: The Bulge
I recently installed Panzer Commander and this thread was a great help to my eventually succsesfully setting it up on my system.
I have 2 installs, version 1.0 with dgvoodoo 2 which greatly improves the graphics, and version 1.3 with the agrit ddraw.dll and config which removes the turret visibility bug but produces an image without anti-aliasing.
If any of the members still have patch 1.4 squirreled away somewhere I would appreciate a PM.
I set up PCem on my win7 system over the last two days with Win98se and emulated voodoo 3 3ooo graphics, and PC ver 1.3 looks nice with the ddraw atmospherics that you don't get using a dgvoodoo 2 wrapper on win7. There are jaggies, but they're not too bad.
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PC ver 1.0 with no jaggies but also no atmospherics using a dgvoodoo2 wrapper on win7.
I was using the agrit cfg and ddraw files which eliminate the turret visibility bug on PC ver 1.3 on my win 7 system, but it only renders in software mode which looks terrible.
I managed to get version 1.3 running natively on Windows 10 with Direct3D support, no missing turret issues or drawing problems. Works perfectly. I use RivaTuner Statistics Server to limit FPS (oddly, setting RVSS to 60 FPS translates to 30 FPS in game).
It's finicky sometimes. It may decide to just not work, requiring a reboot. But I have it working on two completely separate systems with very different hardware. It works more reliably on my older laptop with a nVidia 960m than on my desktop with the AMD 6700XT, but when it works, it works perfectly.
No AA or anything. I wanted to try using Reshade but honestly I'm afraid to mess with it too much now.
Recorded on my desktop with the 6700. I edited the INI files to increase the view distance.