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My Mechwarrior 3 & 4 All-One-One Launcher/ Installer News

https://github.com/Icehellionx/MechWarrior-3-Remastered/
https://github.com/Icehellionx/MechWarrior-4-Remastered/

Just letting everyone know the vast majority of bugs or issues people were having seem to be ironed out. I greatly appreciate anyone and every that gave feedback.

Only things I'll note as I've had requests for them and I don't want bug reports on it as it's not really bugs.

#1 Yes, MechWarrior 4 has a 30 fps cap. The MechLab gets buggy over that so it's purposeful. My goal is to have a complete non buggy experience from end to end. If I can find a way later to have the frame rate lowered to 30 in MechLab and elsewhere in gameplay cap it at whatever the limit is there before things break I'll see what i can do, but it wouldn't be a simple matter.

#2 I see a lot of people asking for widescreen. Similar to the above. It's important for me to retain the UI in game look as it was meant to look be the developers. If I can find a way over time to get widescreen only during gameplay and NOT have it morph the UI I'll do it, but I don't want to promise anything as. This is another one of those "I'll rummage around and see if theirs a way in the future but no promises.

#3 I've had people ask why I don't include the games directly. If I did that the project would likely get taken down in 2 days because it's basically pirating. I want this to stick around as something people can grab for years so I tried to stay away from directly including game data myself. If anyone knows anyone that can give me the go ahead and legally include it on a non commercial license I'd be over the moon and do it in a hear beat. Until then, this is the best compromise I have.

#4 I won't be including any material from the MekTek group. Not because I don't think it's fantastic. I played it to hell. It's because I don't have contact with any of those groups and don't want to use their assets or content without their permission. If someone from that group reaches out and gives the go ahead, I'd love to include it as an alt launcher into 4.

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Beyond that thanks to everyone who helped out, thanks to everyone who downloaded it. It was wild coming across a YouTube video and it included a screenshot of something I had a hand in; that was a bit surreal. Finally and hopefully, you all can easily enjoy MechWarrior 3 and 4 into the future. :)

u/Icehellionx — 11 days ago

Mechwarrior 4 Remaster

You all liked the the Mechwarrior 3 Remaster All-In-One Launcher, so I built so much that I made one for 4. (Which was honestly a PAIN in spots.) You just need to supply the ISOs/ ZIP files. Supports Vengeance, Black Knight, Mercenaries, and the part that was a massive pain, both the Inner Sphere and Clan Mech Paks. Runs at you local desktop resolution at 4:3 ratio. Exception for the Vengeance opening video that runs in fullwidescreen. 4x MSAA and 16x Anisotropic Filtering included so it should look better than ever. Manuals included. Game should properly work for alt-tabbing as well.

https://github.com/Icehellionx/MechWarrior-4-Remastered

If you see any bugs please report them on the github and I'll look at them.

EDIT For some of you having issues with install, try having the install go on your C: Drive and see if thats resolves your issues.

u/Icehellionx — 27 days ago
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Mechwarrior 3 Remaster

So if it interests you I built an all-in-one simple installer for Mechwarrior 3 to let it run on modern systems. You just run the .exe, point it at the ISO files for the CDs, and it installs the game, wraps them so they work on Windows 11, upscales them, adds anti-aliasing, ups the available colors to get rid of banding, does some minor clean up of the cut-scenes (not fully but they look better than base, especially the blacks), and made sure the musics working.

I tried to leave the game 'as intended' as much as possible. Just a super easy clean way to play Mechwarrior 3 without jumping through hoops.

Pirate's Moon is also supported.

*EDIT*

I put a a patch late tonight that hopefully should help some of you with issues on startup. v1.2.2 is the newest. Anyway. I'm going to sleep. Take it easy peeps.

*EDIT 2*
If you're having crashes reach out to me with the logs it shows on the error screen. I'm working for patching those few of you that are having issues with the installer/ launcher, but I need hard data to fix anything as it works perfectly on my machine.

*EDIT 3*

Version 1.2.4 should be out on github. If you were having issues you might try this one.

*EDIT 4*
Version 1.2.5 is out. For those of you that saw that workaround starting the exe from the ISO thank you. I think that might have lead me to the bug I couldn't track down.

github.com
u/Icehellionx — 1 month ago