Hi,
 
no that didn't work. VDMSound and NOLFB loaded ok but it still came up with...
 
Error: MechWarrior2: Mercenaries CD-Rom not found
 
maybe it's the fact that my cd drive is f: and not d: or e: like most peoples would be?
 
anyway, thanks for your help. i think a friend of mine has mw2 not mercs so i might wait till i can borrow it off him and try that instead. if i still have a problem with the cd when i install mw2 then i know a site which explains how to krak it so i don't need a cd. if only mw3 and mw4 were any good we wouldn't need all of this work to play a game. IMO microsoft royally arsed up mechwarrior. pity activision couldn't get their hands on it again...
 
cheers
 
bone
 
p.s. i just remembered that i had the same problem with dosbox and apparently they fixed it so that dosbox should recognise cd's ok. i think it might well be my pc which is the problem. bugger!

No, DosBox doesn't recognize the Mercs CD but it does work for the MW2 CD.
 
How many CD drives do you have? If you have multiple CD drives try the CD drive that has a letter closer to C: than your other drive. Also try to change the drive letter closer if you can.
 
Before you do that tho check your autoexec.nt file and make sure that this line is in there:
 
%SystemRoot%\system32\mscdexnt.exe

My advice... don't use dos box for Mechwarrior 2. The game will usually launch on its own if its gonna launch at all.
 
lordlupin, Mechwarrior 2 (all of them) is very picky. The games were designed in an era where having two CD drives on the same computer was almost unheard of. So if you've got multiple CD drives, the fact that your main CD drive is F probably is part of your problem. So like dosfreak suggested, change the letter of one of your CD drives to D: and see if that helps
 
qbodsyt, as was pointed out, your batch file was totally messed up. But if fixing it up didn't help, do the following:
 
-Go into your mech2 directory
-Right click on the exe file, and hit properties
-Go into the program tab, and uncheck the box "close on exit"
 
Now you'll see a PIF dos shortcut file appear. Use that to run the game. Attempt to do as you did before, and get it to crash. Then you'll be able to see the error message, if any.
 

Thanks for creating the list of things to do to get mw2 mercs to work! However, I still have a problem. I'm currently using the 1.06 version of mercs. After starting a new game, putting in callsign and selecting a mission in mercenary mode w/ money activated and after loading a mission, I get up to the neurohelmet cinema then it crashes. The error shown is MW2.exe - fatal error 53: SYSERR_CDNOTFOUND: CD-ROM not mounted. Also, i got the same error w/ vdmsound 2.0.4 and 2.1.0. Oh btw, i made a bat file in the order shown in the faq, and my first cd-rom drive is e, as my comp has a hd partition on the d drive. Any suggestions on how to fix the problem would be helpful. Thanks in advance.

Looks like it's not able to find the CD. This also happens if yout MW2: Mercs CD doesn't have CD audio tracked. To verify this try to see if Windows Media Player can see the CD tracks. If it can then that's not your problem. If it can't then you won't be able to get it work.

Well this is a seperate (yet entirely related) problem I am having. I have gotten Mechwarrior 2 to start, run, and do everything correctly. The mouse works quick, the CD tracks play right, I can go into either Clan Hall, I fixed the choppy sound, etc. etc.
 
But there is still one major problem. There seems to be a problem with the game's collision detection. On the one hand, some objects simply cannot be shot : specifically, those behind objects that have been exploded, but are now visible. For intsance, I cannot shoot anyone standing behind an exploded building, even if I can see them. The lasers just sort of impact this... 'nothing' and there is a puff, like they hit the ground. But even more important, I cannot do the Cold Crescent mission, the one for Clan Wolf where you have to infiltrate the Falcons and destroy the terraformer core. It is absolutely, 100% impossible to shoot the core, because you have to blast open a side of the building it is in to get in there. My shots just 'puff' in the middle of nowhere. I can even walk inside the terraformer building, screw around in there for awhile, get really really close to the core... and it still just goes 'puff'. One time I got the Jade Falcon Rifleman IIC to follow me in there, and we were wailing on each other with shots that puffed right in front of us... it was really, really weird.
 
Needless to say, I am unhappy at my inability to destroy the core, because I need to to complete the mission.
 
Another problem is missiles explode in my face. When I fire them, they just blow up right in front of me and do a lot of damage to myself. It never did this before, and it is really irritating.
 
Anybody have any idea what is wrong, or how I can fix it?
 
EDIT : I was muckin' about with the mission, trying various things to see if it would help, including the enolagay (blows up everything) cheat code, which did not help. Somehow I actually managed to shoot the core and explode it, and I think it had something to do with having one of my medium pulse lasers mounted in the head, instead of the arms like usual. But missiles still explode in my face.
[Edited by BakNBlack on 2005-11-12 17:42:32]
 

Meh, nevermind. I got it to work once, but now I seem completely unable to duplicate the results, and have tried lasers in every position, head, all three torsos, legs, arms. Someone help?

Never experienced this issue before.
 
Are you using any patches for the game? Have you tried running the game under DosBox? Might want to do so and see if that fixes the issue,

Originally posted by dosfreak:

Quote:Never experienced this issue before. 
Are you using any patches for the game? Have you tried running the game under DosBox? Might want to do so and see if that fixes the issue,
 
I can no longer remember the reasoning, but I do remember reading somewhere to patch to version 1.1, which I did. However, I vaguely remember missiles failing to properly fire when it was in 1.0, and I was mucking about in Trials of Grievance (cuz nothing else would work!).
 
As far as DOSBox... when I attempt to run it in DOSBox, it simply tells me the CD is not present, which it totally is. Furthermore, according to the DOSBox site itself (specifically, http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/comp_list.php?showID=643&letter=M ), it states the game runs better OUTSIDE of DOSBox. It actually says it needs a crack to run in DOSBox, when it does not need one to run in XP!
 
It is all very confusing...
 
EDIT : I am thinking about just picking up Virtual PC, and then get the Titanium Edition of Ebay to run in a virtual Windows 98 or something.

The bit about the weapons hitting invisible objects, or blowing up in your face, or your jump jets not recharging are not windows XP problems - they're to do with a speed problem with the game engine.
 
See, the game wasn't geared for computers this fast (guess they didn't think people would still be playing 10 years later! ). If you slow down the game process enough, the bugs will stop occuring.
 
What you need is a CPU killer program, such as CPU Grab, or Advanced Game Loader. With these, you can slow the game down and get it to work correctly.
 
You might want to check out my FAQ at netmech.org, it has information on this, and other issues running the MW2 series on NT systems.

hey guy my email address is fulbac50@yahoo.com
i know you all are probably way better at computer stuff than me i have read your info to help and i still can't get my copy of mechwarrior 2:mercinaries to work maybe one of you guys could e mail me with maybe step by step instructions to get this done i was way excited when i got this game and now i can't get it to work here is what my system is useing
1.8hgz amd athalon xp 2200
512mb ram
windows xp 2002 home edtion
msi ms star ge force 4 mx 440 with agpx8
i am begging to get some help with this issue cuase i have no idea what i am doing and i really wanna play this game again please some one e mail me on how to do this i can't mintx.exe on the file like curley boy said then i realized he was talking about mechwarrior 2 not mercs i downlaoded vmdsound now what do i do.

sorry to bring back this thread if it's old, but i'm stuck on the first step :\. installed vdmsound. i don't even have a minst.exe. i have a _minst.exe but not a minst.exe. and i can't right click and run with vdmsound i know i'm only a one poster, but can you guys please help me out? i really loved this game.

game is working but i haven't gotten the clan missions to start yet.

I just downloaded vmware but it says i need a windows 95 boot what is that and where can i get it for free?

Originally posted by pyron4d:

Quote:I just downloaded vmware but it says i need a windows 95 boot what is that and where can i get it for free? 
You have the Windows 95 CD right?
 
You can get the Windows 95 boot disk image from:
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm
 
If you have physical floppy drive, just insert blank floppy to drive and run the exe.
 
If you do not have physical floppy drive:
1) Install WinRar.
2) Download boot diskette image.
3) Right-click it and extract the file. Ignore the error.
4) Copy the .IMA file to your virtual machine's folder.
5) In Vmware, select your virtual machine and doubleclick the floppy drive icon from the devices list.
6) Click Use floppy image. And Browse… button. Select All Files. Select the copied .IMA file. OK.
 
Insert 95 CD to drive and start vm. It should start from the floppy (either from real or virtual) drive. Select CD-Rom support from the list.
 
Now you'll need to partition the virtual hard drive.
Use fdisk, to do it.
When done, restart the vm. And when back on the prompt, use format to format your virtual partition(s).
 
When formatted, start setup from CD. For example: D:\setup.exe.