The Settlers II...

[Adagio]

Ever tried to create a map which is filled with bunnies (or whatever animal you want)...

[General Ludd]

I just installed settlers 2 gold to try it myself, and although it could not detect or identify my mouse driver I had no problems at all using it inside the game.

[DrSpike]

Now you're just teasing him.

[Adagio]

Now I haven't tested to see if I can get it working Virtal PC (yet), but I wonder how many times it's possible to install those virtual pc's. I mean like if I start Virtual PC, install VPC inside VPC, then run VPC inside VPC and go on for some time... would be interesting to see how many times I can do this before my computer says stop

[child of Thor]

Yes be carefull - i heard of one guy who accidently opened a portal to hell playing around with just that

medium sized lie

Good luck And if you just cant get it to play, i'd recommend getting an old PC for playing the older games - atleast you'll get the full game experience(sound/music etc)

[Adagio]

Thx

But I guess I'll have push it till tomorow, since I didn't feel like playing around with anything today...

I do have an old machine laying around, I just have to reinstall Windows first... there's just a tiny little problem: I can't get the cd-drive working... and I don't have any disk-drives

[DrSpike]

Takes 2 seconds to swap the working cd drive into your old machine. Then maybe you can find a *cough* censored *cough* so you don't need the drive permanently.

Seriously, having an old machine ready for such an eventuality is the way forward.

[Adagio]

It's not the drive that doesn't work, it's just the cables...


... but some day... some day I'm going to get it working

[DrSpike]

Well then in you don't have a spare (I'm surprised, I have about 10) swap a working cable in just to install the game, then follow the strategy above!

[Adagio]

I do have a spare, it's just that I lately didn't really have time to do it... and I have been a little bit lazy in the time I had

[DrSpike]

It certainly sounds like it.

[child of Thor]

I've got the gold version of the game, and compared to the origonal(even on the amiga) it seems to run quite slowly on my pc(a P166 with 48mb). I'm within the required specs so is this just the way S2 is(or was)?Not that speed is a must on a game like this, but i'm just surprised that my amiga version of the first game moved alot quicker(your guys moved stuff around with a bit more enthusiasm). Any ideas/info on this?

[Adagio]

I remember it played fine on my P133 with 32 MB


...well, I did have one problem with the game as some point: It took 15 minutes just to save the game

[DrSpike]

I had it originally on a horrid P133 with sh*tty everything. Thankfully my backup win98 machine has a 1.2Ghz athlon and 512MB of RAM.

[child of Thor]

ok im sure its fine - i think its meant to move at a slower pace, Settlers is a very relaxing game after all and i think with the second version they just chilled it out a little more