MechWarrior 3?

[AlwaysUp]

I played MechWarrior with my son on our first PC, and that was some time ago. He then got MechWarrior 2 and he said it kinda sucked and in any event he went on to Diablo which required DirectX8, I think. Anyway I was wondering how do people retain the ability to play older games when newer games require DirectX upgrades. I would like to go back and Play Thief and Thief II but DirectX7 is all that is supported with these games. And MechWarrior was an even earlier version that was required. What does one do in this situation?

[morriswindgate]

Did you have trouble running them, I have DX8.1 and am still able to run even old DX6 version games.

[AlwaysUp]

In the case of Thief opening play would start with intro video that was not at all smooth and was very grainy. Before gameplay actually starts my display clicks off and back to my desktop with a message that this game requires DirectX7.

[Greedo]

hey always up
i could be way off base here, but i think mechwarrior 2 was for dos
maybe they had a win version, but early games shouldn't use directX at all

as for thief, i have dx8.0 on my athlon/geforce2mx system, and thief and the demo for 2 run fine
try running the dxdiag file in dx folder and see if it comes up with anything

[AlwaysUp]

Mech Warrior was originally a Win95 release, not a DOS based game. MechWarrior II was OK for 95, 98, and NT, although I know no one to ask how NT play was.

[Cirerrek]

My dad loved the original Mech Warrior. On the computer we had at the time it ran quite well with only an occasional slow down. A few years later, after trying out Mech Warrior II, he didn't like the fact that it didn't have a real quest like Mech Warrior, so we loaded up Mech Warrior on a more powerful computer. Worked great, except for the major problem of the game moving so fast you couldn't control your mech (Once you got up to speed, it was so fast that you would run right by the enemy forces and completely run out of the combat zone, thus losing the fight, in only a manner of seconds). So Mech Warrior went back on the shelf until the latest Mech Warrior (IV I believe) which has a quest similar to the original Mech Warrior.