Mechcommander 2 - What is wrong with this damn game?

[Gonad the Barbarian]

I got this game in the Mech pack with MW4 & the expansion and I have yet to get it to run correctly. Every time I've tried the menu is almost too slow to navigate and if I start the game it is too slow to play and the terrain is all blocky and pixelated. Also, about half the time I get the little videos in the upper corner, the other times I get nothing. I can't seem to find a patch for this game, is there any way to fix this? My system is more than capable of running this and I haven't had any problems with any other games, and it's not video card related because I have had this problem on both a GF4 and now a Radeon 9800. Anyone have any idea how I can get this running right?

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

Ok, I just tried this under WinXP (was using Win98 before) on the same system and its fine. Driver & DirectX versions are the same in both OS's, does this game just not run right under Win98?

 

[crypticlogin]

Every time I've tried the menu is almost too slow to navigate and if I start the game it is too slow to play and the terrain is all blocky and pixelated.

I'm pretty sure this was MechCommander 2 (it might've been MC1 but leaning towards MC2), but there was an option to pick either a hardware-accelerated cursor or not. I had the choppy menu problems so I just switched to the other one and that was fixed.

As for the terrain... beyond the usual "check your settings in game and in Windows", I don't know what it could be.

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

In Win98, if I checked the hardware cursor option, it had no effect other than making the cirsor disappear altogether. One thing I also noticed, that system test it runs the first time you run the game, took much, much longer for me under Win98 than it did in XP. Not sure what the deal is, everything else I've run on this machine has had no problems under either OS.