TIE fighter and windows XP

ShotByBothSides · Post by **ShotByBothSides** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 1:57 pm

I have tried in vain to get TIE fighter running on my windows XP rig, and it keeps telling me that I need to install DX 5.1. Running it with VDMSound fixed that problem, but now VDMS won't recognize my joystick. I understand that this happens a lot with winXP. Any ideas?

Post by **Vortagh** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 2:47 pm

We had an entire thread on this problem on the old ImperialSquadrons.Net boards, but currently that thread is dead. I guess I will have to dig into the backup file and pull it out by hand, so we can try to ressurect it.

LC La Forge · Post by **LC La Forge** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 2:51 pm

May I recommend looking here:
http://empirereborn.net/holonet/viewtopic.php?t=434

Also... could you please include your ID Line in your sig, so we know who you are?

Post by **Jagged Fel** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 5:10 pm

Couple other things can be found here http://databank.empirereborn.net/index. ... FighterFix

Post by **Fel** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 1:31 am

There's also a program called "DOSBox" which you may find helpful. It even runs on *NIX OSes.

MCHuskie · Post by **MCHuskie** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 2:42 pm

DOSBox runs the DOS version of TIE perfectly for me. A little slow occasionally, but that's with the 0.61 version (0.63 is faster with other games, haven't tried TIE yet).

Laithlis · Post by **Laithlis** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 4:34 pm

MCHuskie wrote:DOSBox runs the DOS version of TIE perfectly for me. A little slow occasionally, but that's with the 0.61 version (0.63 is faster with other games, haven't tried TIE yet).

With DOSbox 0.63, no music and no sounds with max cycles TIE was still unplayably slow on my computer. But my computer ain't a speeder. Just 1,3GHz and 256MB RAM

MCHuskie · Post by **MCHuskie** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 6:35 pm

Hmm... I have a 2.08GHz machine but only 192MB RAM. I was using the Linux version of DOSBox, but that shouldn't make a difference, I wouldn't think. Emulation does require a lot of processing power though.