Machines: The Game
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Hi~!!!
Someone found this for me randomly after asking questions about old games and I am SO excited about getting to play this game again I rushed here, downloaded everything and tried so hard to make it work- twice.
I have failed the simple instructions, I have no real idea what I'm doing, it all seemed so simple but alas the game won't even launch. Instead it brings up an error from what appears to be a file in a folder.
It comes up: C\Program Files (x86) \Acclaim Entertainment\Machines\machines .exe.
and obviously I click ok and nothing happens cries.
I'm using Windows 7 if that helps.
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@ReaperKid88 You need to apply the Windows XP patch. You can download it in the first post.
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@ReaperKid88 Weird, when I downloaded the game on my Win7 'nother time I didn't need to do anything but to mount Disc 2 and play Machines.
http://wiredforwar.org/topic/2/how-to-get-up-and-running - I've downloaded it from here
By the way, welcome to the forums!
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Sorry for asking this but is it legal to download Machines game from here?
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@gabre
Technically no, but it's abandonware since devs/publisher do not maintain it. The only other way to get the game would be to acquire the disks from someone else. -
So I managed to get it running, Menu's aside it runs smooth. However, ingame, random artifact (looks like a broken LCD screen) appear all the time.... Fiddling with zoom did help some, but only when standing still... When I move around it gets borked again. Sigh... I fucking hate windows 8.1
I guess imma gonna hafta dust off my old PC. Wonder if it still runs?
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So I have tried that Voodoo2 trick and it works like a charm :) Been playing a couple of levels.
The itch to make an improved version of our beloved game starts to come back again xDUnfortunatly the forum seems rather... quiet at the moment?
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@TheOriginalFoxx It's just that everyone's busy.
Discounting me, I am just lazy!yay.gorilla
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We need lazy people :)
They make the hard working folks look good!Anyhow.... Im probably useless in the development of the new version.
I could try voice acting maybe? And some artsy stuff? hahah Or I will just leave it to the young ones... -
@TheOriginalFoxx Oh yeah! You can do the voice-actin', man. We'll appreciate it.
By the way, I might try doing so, too!yay.gorilla
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Thanks so much for making this game available, I have spent to much of my free time scouring the Internets for this game. This was my first RTS game I ever played, I did see some comments about audio not working? Does audio work for anyone else?
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@hungy69 I haven't heard of the sound effects not working for anyone, but the music does not play for me unless I keep my physical disc 1 inside of the disc drive.
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Hello
After a long search I finally found a proper DL version of this mighty awesome game.
I bought this game on pc back in '99 but unfortunately both discs were lost when moving out. Still bummed out about this.
Now that I'm trying to get it up and running a small problem occurred.
I've mounted disc one and followed setup instructions. At 80% setup asked for disc 2.
After doing this setup reached 100% and did a directx update.
I thought YAAYY IT'S GO TIME but my pc said nonono hombre I won't cooperate.
An error popped on my screen, showing me a "incorrect installation" messsage.
Does anyone know how to fix this please?
Doing a re-install didn't really help, weird thing about it is that this time I got a different error.
Telling me machines.exe is missing and a problem in machines path.
Installing the machines XP patch and d3drm.dll file didn't fix it.
Due to my basic pc knowledge I ran out of options.
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@Han-Nas
Hello! I noticed that you are using Windos10. @M123 provided us with a troubleshooting guide, have you tried it? Here is the link:
http://wiredforwar.org/topic/77/machines-and-windows-10/14? -
hey guys! I have a problem with machines...i install it, it's working, but after 10 minutes of playing i get a "yellow screen" and i can't see nothing even the game is still runing.
i have windows xp
video card: nVidia Geforce 9400 gtPlease help! I spend couple years to get this game, i really want to play it!
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That's a strange one... Hmm...
What version of the nVidia GeForce drivers are you using?
I remember some older versions had a memory leak in certain situations which could cause issues similar to what you describe.Maybe try running the game at a different resolution, see if there's any change in behaviour (try highest and lowest available resolutions).
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OMG! it works, i can't belive this! thank you so much!!!! <3
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@lowowlow
Glad it worked out :)What did the trick, specifically? (in case someone else runs into the same issue)
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Ребят, здрасте. У меня вопрос: Почему перестал работать звук в игре, она начала лагать жёстко, и видео перестало показывать перед загрузкой меню?
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@ILFree said:
Ребят, здрасте. У меня вопрос: Почему перестал работать звук в игре, она начала лагать жёстко, и видео перестало показывать перед загрузкой меню?
"Guys, hello . I have a question : Why stopped working sound in the game , she began to lag severely , and the video is no longer show before loading the menu ?"
Sound or just music?
You can try this:
http://wiredforwar.org/topic/77/machines-and-windows-10/14In my case, I applied the compatibility mode for Windos 98, but with one of the new .dll files. Now the game runs almost smooth (perfect gameplay).
Also, look for the last update posted by @M123.
