Independence War

sundalo · Post by **sundalo** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 8:02 pm

One of the best space combat sims ever made, with inertial combat, I was wondering if you can run this game on windows 7, they have this for sale on GOG and it runs as far as windows vista tops. Has anyone downloaded and played this on win 7?

DORN · Post by **DORN** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 2:14 am

Hi there,

IWar is wonderful.

There are a few issues, which may have work arounds but you will have to search for them.

The game was designed for a 1996 P-3 / 250 ish processor and has problems with anything that will run it faster.
I remember seeing somewhere some kind of processor slower downer for modern machines so one could run IWar. Try searching for this.

There may also be issues with modern graphics cards.
I also remember a thread comment from the old Iwar forum that running the game in window mode and software mode as opposed to using the graphics card was about the only way to get it to work with newer hardware in many cases. The graphics are much reduced but at least it runs.

Experiment!

Search!

Good Luck!

Dorn

BÃ¦nlynn · Post by **BÃ¦nlynn** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 3:16 am

Sundalo, GOG tend to do the legwork for you on performance/compatibility issues. If their game is DOS-era it will come packaged inside a DOSBox emulator that should run just fine without compatibility modes or jiggery-pokery. I've bought a few old games from them (Sanitarium, Wing Commander 1 and 2 etc.) They've all come bundled like that. I would be VERY surprised if they haven't done the same thing here.

sundalo · Post by **sundalo** » Fri Feb 10, 2012 8:13 am

Ok, thanks guys, will give it a try one of these days!:)

xander1987 · Post by **xander1987** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 5:04 pm

From post: 129683, Topic: tid=8859, author=sundalo wrote:One of the best space combat sims ever made, with inertial combat, I was wondering if you can run this game on windows 7, they have this for sale on GOG and it runs as far as windows vista tops. Has anyone downloaded and played this on win 7?

yes it works on win7 i buy it and play good

my specs
i7 920 2.70GHz
6.00GB DDR 3
2 GTS 450 in SLI mode game work just as good if SLI mode is off
OS win7 home premium

Post by **DaveK** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 10:48 pm

IW2 (which GOG also sell) works on Windows 7; when I asked GOG whether IW would as well, I got a terse email back saying look at the advert page! Not ever so helpful

From what I remember, IW required a certain gaphics card to work properly.

So, just to confirm xander1987, you've got IW to work in W7 as well as IW2?

I really do hope so!

DORN · Post by **DORN** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 2:41 am

Yes,

Iwar was developed around the Voodoo graphics cards and the cream of the crop was the V-5500.

I was sorry to see the changes in Edge of Chaos. It lost something.

Dorn

Raynor · Post by **Raynor** » Sat Mar 03, 2012 4:45 am

I tried the second one many years ago but it was already a bunch of years old and i couldn't get into it. If nothing else, someone should remake them (a bit like WC: Privateer was remade, though this one was more in need of it since it wasn't real 3-d then)

Munshine · Post by **Munshine** » Sat Mar 03, 2012 12:35 pm

Never played the first one but I recall that someone in a store was demonstrating it and it looked like some deep but complex capital ship simulator to master. Then I played the second one 's demo a few years ago and liked its newtonian physics and combat but I wasn't so much into games at the time and didn't buy it.