WH40K Chaos Gate or Should I bother with getting this shit?

[MetalCraze]

seriously.

 

[Virtz]

If you've got a comp with Windows 95/98 installed, then sure. Otherwise, there's some crash-to-desktop in XP when a cultist fires, which no one's been able to fix so far (as far as I know) in any way other than removing cultists from the map using an editor. Not sure if you'd find it worth the hassle.

 

[The Rambling Sage]

The game is well worth your time.

If you have any trouble use Virtual PC or whatever it is called.

 

[MetalCraze]

thanks, will try then.

 

[nikpalj]

Oh, yes, most certainly! I remember adoring this game back in the ninetees, the soundtrack is specially memorable.

If you like squad based tactical combat of fallout games or jagged alliance 2 + (obviously) Warhammer 40k, you simply have to play through this little rough diamond!

"*Fall* before the Chapter, Chaos traitors!!!"


Oh, and here's this: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=-DlxqWk0dHs

 

[Dangersaurus]

Chaos Gate works great under Windows XP if you install it to C:\CHAOSGTE

 

[Psycroptic]

Isn't it basically Panzer General with new units? Maybe it's one of the other Warhammer games I'm thinking of though.

 

[Jasede]

It definitely isn't like Panzer General at all. More like X-Com bit without everything that made X-Com so good, and then some (less).

 

[Psycroptic]

Okay. It's Warhammer: Rites of War I'm thinking of.

 

[Elwro]

Yeah. Was it any good? I remember trying the demo back then and I wasn't particularly impressed.

 

[kingcomrade]

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=-DlxqWk0dHs

Haha, launch all church ships!

 

[The Rambling Sage]

It definitely isn't like Panzer General at all. More like X-Com bit without everything that made X-Com so good, and then some (less).

If you are refering to the Strategic layer of gameplay, you are right - But Chaos Gate is good at what it does (just tactical combat) and has the "you are cut-off" thing giving you more than enough depth if you like playing without constant try-and-reload.

 

[CrimsonAngel]

yeah it is worth playing if you can get it to work.

 

[Dangersaurus]

Also, when I say it plays "great," I mean it plays about as well as it ever did under 95/98 - crashes fairly often when running mission scripts, hangs for up to five minutes occasionally on load or exit, doesn't remember some option settings from session to session, has buggy vehicle implementation and sometimes forgets that it's *anybody's* turn, so you're stuck with the GUI but no action points. So you should save early and often, even if you're not into save scumming.

Despite all of that, it's a fun game. I remember the multiplayer being a blast too, but it's been quite a while since I've tried that side of the game.

 

[Cthulhugoat]

Could any kind soul make a tutorial for installing and running stuff with VirtualPC? I'm afraid I'm too much of an archaic person (ehem) to handle all these series of tubes.

 

[Lonely Vazdru]

If you've got a comp with Windows 95/98 installed, then sure. Otherwise, there's some crash-to-desktop in XP when a cultist fires, which no one's been able to fix so far (as far as I know) in any way other than removing cultists from the map using an editor. Not sure if you'd find it worth the hassle.

Arise ! Old thread.

Sorry to run necromantic, but I'm replaying Chaos Gate (because it happens to be one of my favorite turn-based squad games of all times) and I encountered the infamous "cultist pistol bug" that crashes the game when you use Windows XP.
Searching a solution on the net brought me here among other places, but no solution was provided. Even editing the cultists out would not be a real solution since some cultists are triggered by events that can't be edited out.

Could the Codex fail at providing a solution for this crucial problem ? No.

Would I play that damn good game under XP ? Hell yeah !

So here's the trick. Just uncheck the "compatibility mode" for the WH40K.exe. Worked like a charm for me and cultists can now fire their laser pistols alright.

 

[skavenhorde]

I got this running about a year ago and ran into that pistol bug too. They only way I was able to fix it was by loading Virtualpc and running Win98 in it. It works great under VirtualPC. It got rid of the all the crashes. I also got Final Liberation: Warhammer Epic 40k to run in Virtual PC. In XP Final Liberation would work but you couldn't see any of the movies. In VPC the movies run and the game works perfectly.

If the game runs too slow in VPC all you have to do is allocate more ram in the settings and then it runs fine.

Link to Virtual PC

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en

 

[Lonely Vazdru]

I don't know if you read my post 'till the end. Because I was providing a simple solution for the Chaos Gate/Windows XP bug. In case somebody else encountered it. But thanks just the same.

And if you had already tried the method I indicated and still could not play the game without using VPC, then I apologize.

 

[skavenhorde]

And if you had already tried the method I indicated and still could not play the game without using VPC, then I apologize.

No problem, was just trying to help. I didn't read your last sentence, just assumed you needed help.

I did do the uncheck and just about everything else immaginable to get this game running about a year ago, but it never worked. The only thing that worked was VPC.

Anyways, have fun killing those damn blue horrors

 

[quasimodo]

I really like this tactical squad game. I have never gotten it to work in XP by messing with the compatibility settings, and Virtual PC was way too slow. (I didn't know about changing the RAM). I keep a Win98 box around just so I can play the game.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Okay. It's Warhammer: Rites of War I'm thinking of.

Indeed

and it was better than Panzer General imo, even though it didn't have Nazis (but Space Marines aren't really different anyway)