Starsiege

What works

Menu works, Installer works, 3D works (with minor glitches, but nothing that could inhibit gameplay), cutscenes work better than in windows. 99% of the game works.

What does not

The disk is not detected by the program, requiers the NoCd patch.

Workarounds

What was not tested

did not test the misson editor.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

The NoCd patch had to be installed, the default dinput.dll has to be replaced with the one from the disk, the mouse was jittery in-game, had to be run in windows 95 mode, had to be run with the virtual desktop enabled. The low-res menu was in the top left corner

­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'.