Gene Troopers: Solutions No One Asked For

[wkduffy]

Hi all. Just finished playing "Gene Troopers" (2005) and encountered a few sound and video Win7 hiccups. Wrote about it on my blog. Shameless plug:

http://wkduffy.wordpress.com/

Anyway, Trey suggested I summarize a text of fixes that got me through, which might be used somewhere, somehow, even though no one asked for it. Voila:

Potential problems and fixes playing “Gene Troopers” on Win 7 or newer OS:

1. You hear music and sound effects but no voices: This is a problem with EAX no longer being supported in Win7. To fix, Google and download “3D Sound Back,” freeware from Realtek to emulate EAX for older games. IMPORTANT NOTE: 3D Sound Back must run in VISTA compatibility mode in order to initialize.

2. You encouter heavy graphical corruption in areas with trees and water (polygon spikes obscure the whole screen): This is a problem encountered with some nVidia cards. To fix, Google and download “3D Analyzer” (3DA) freeware from ToMMTi-Systems. Run “Gene Troopers” through 3DA as you play. Before starting the game in 3DA, on the main 3DA menu, go to the column “Hardware LImits” and tick the box “emulate HW TnL caps,” which limits/bypasses your nVidia card and removes the corruption. NOTE: 3DA taxes your processor. Remember the entire game does not need to be run through 3DA. Static environments (not including moving trees or water) should work fine in Win7. For weaker rigs, only use 3DA in sections where the corruption occurs.

[Scaryfun]

Good to know.

[hfric]

Thanks in advance , back when this game was released i didn't had a PC that could run it [well it could but all on low and on this this game looked like a psone game ... no really it looks one when you turn off bloom and other effect this game uses]... now i can play it and well i am on Win7 and i was planning to play it... so thanks for fixing one problem i had with many other games that STARTED WHEN I HAD VISTA .. NO FRIKING EAX

[_Antithesis_]

I'm way late with this, but could anyone give this game a download and tell me if they're having any problems with certain text not appearing (certain things in the options menu, like the Gore option, don't show 'On' or 'Off'. Also, I can't see how many grenades I have while playing the game, etc.)? Because the missing text is really a problem for me. Especially when I don't know how much DNA points I have, so I don't know what upgrades to buy for my character.

Edit: I'm using the crack found on GameCopyWorld, of course.

[hfric]

I'm way late with this, but could anyone give this game a download and tell me if they're having any problems with certain text not appearing (certain things in the options menu, like the Gore option, don't show 'On' or 'Off'. Also, I can't see how many grenades I have while playing the game, etc.)? Because the missing text is really a problem for me. Especially when I don't know how much DNA points I have, so I don't know what upgrades to buy for my character.

Edit: I'm using the crack found on GameCopyWorld, of course.

better late then never , its a game made for 4:3 resolutions ... some 16:9 are supported but dont go to extremes ... if you play in 1920x1080 it works fine but more then this and half of the text goes invisible