Mechwarrior 4 performance issues

Deadbeat · 26 Jul 2010 at 09:04

So I finally got round to downloading the MW4 freebie, but It's not running well. Setting the defaults to high or very high gives me a startup message saying my hardware isn't compatible, and running it on low or medium makes some of the menu screens show only partially - the right and bottom edges are off the screen and I can't move my mouse over them. The game itself also plays awfully - very poor, low-res graphics and jerky, low FPS.

I'm running a core i7 @ 3.4GHz, ATI Radeon 4890, 6GB Patriot Viper and I'm getting the same problems using either K&M or joystick. Any ideas?

chokedoke · 26 Jul 2010 at 11:11

I run this game in win xp mode on win 7 and it runs fine for me Are you running it natively in win 7?

Deadbeat · 26 Jul 2010 at 13:49

yeah, that may be the problem, I'll try that - cheers.

chokedoke · 26 Jul 2010 at 15:19

no problem, xp mode has been a life saver for me and many of my old games if you get it working right i dont even notice that it is running at all.

colinuk · 27 Jul 2010 at 14:34

Where did you get the MW4 freebie from?

Noto · 28 Jul 2010 at 00:49

colinuk said:
Where did you get the MW4 freebie from?

http://www.mektek.net/projects/mw4/index.html

i just found it and dling too