The Settlers II...

[General Ludd]

Yeah, this sounds like the same thing I ran into last time I tried playing it.


I'm having a hard time remembering what exactly I did... but I think what worked was downloading a DOS mouse driver exe and adding a command line into the settlers exe to run it before the program started.

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by ADG
But I often (almost all the time) have certain programs running, which should be shut down as seldom as possible

All the porn, warez and games will still be there when you get back.

[Adagio]

...I was more concerned about the downloads

Ludd >>

And you wouldn't by any chance know where to find this dos mouse driver exe, and what to add in the command line?

[General Ludd]

you should be able to get the driver easily enough on google... try searching for msmouse.exe


As for the command line.... I'm not sure, but I think just adding it to the front of the command line under the settlers.exe properties>program tab would work.

[Adagio]

Ok, I'll try to find it

[Adagio]

I found the mouse driver, but is it nessecary to install it? the dll files can easily be extracted from the installation file, but I'm not sure what to put in the command line... should I refer to mouse.exe (from the extracted files) or to the installation?

[General Ludd]

Run msmouse.exe and then add C:\msmouse\mouse.exe to the command line before C:\XXX\Settlers2.exe (or whatever)

[Adagio]

Do you mean in the command line under properties for s2.exe you write:
"C:\msmouse\mouse.exe F:\Games\S2\S2.EXE"

[General Ludd]

Yes

[Adagio]

Doesn't work though... a msgbox says:

F:\Games\S2\S2.PIF
Invalid program file name, please check... bla bla bla

[Adagio]

That is if I do it in the shortcut to the game... if I do it in S2.exe it doesn't make a difference

[Adagio]

Do you know where to find the patch? I can only find links to the Blue Byte site, but they don't have the patch anymore

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by ADG
Doesn't work though... a msgbox says:

F:\Games\S2\S2.PIF
Invalid program file name, please check... bla bla bla

That is if I do it in the shortcut to the game... if I do it in S2.exe it doesn't make a difference

That's funny. I tried it on a program just to see if that command line worked, and it seemed to.

[Adagio]

Strange


I just got Virtual PC (from Microsoft), where I just installed Win98SE (took quite a while... longer than usual)... I hope this makes it possible to play the game while being in WinXP...
I'll find out tomorow
*fingers crossed*

[child of Thor]

S2 is a great game, i'm always happy to see the bunnys hopping around
Then saddend when my hunter goes and ends their wild and free lifestyle

Hope you sort out the mouse issue - im a 98 player so its fine for me.