Starsiege

What works

installing, playing, videos, sound

human and cybrid campaign 

also training mode

What does not

sound in the beginning, you have to try a bit in the ingame-options

 with .29 nothing works, see comment

Workarounds

What was not tested

completing campaign, multiplayer, playing with a joystick

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

IMPORTANT! I tested it with wine-git from the 9.09.2009. (around 12 o clock CET) it DIDNT work with .29 !!! oh, and i used cdemu für tricking the copy-protection. possible mount -o loop would do the same. i also copied the dinput.dll from the cd Admin note: rating changed to conform to rating definitions.

­Starsiege ­HOWTO

Installation

Run 'setup/Setup.exe' on the disc (buddy disc in the two-disc version), being sure not to register or auto update.

Patching

If you are using the older two-disc version, you will have to apply the 1004 patch.

http://www.sierrahelp.com/Files/Patches/MetalTech/Starsiege(s1000to1004_usa).zip

Also, you'll probably want to apply the NOCD patch.

https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=aca2b7c7635ceba3&sc=documents&id=ACA2B7C7635CEBA3%21919#

The original master server is not available, but the community maintains one for those who still want to play online.

http://www.starsiege1.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=newmasterhere&action=display&thread=67

Issues

The installer is old, and may crash in more recent distributions. See http://wiki.winehq.org/PreloaderPageZeroProblem.

The game may often start minimized.

The default pause key is NUMLOCK, and if unchanged, the game will pause on any key press while NUMLOCK is active. Change this key binding, or toggle NUMLOCK.

With 3D acceleration enabled, texture overlays (like pavement on a section of terrain) will not render, and the game will start in windowed mode.

Pressing ALT+ENTER to toggle between fullscreen and windowed mode is not recognized. To change the screen mode, set "$pref::GWC::SIM_IS_FULLSCREEN" to "True" in '[installdir]/defaultPrefs.cs'.