coeray
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This is a little out of place since it doesn't directly relate to UQM. But how many other star control forums are there, eh? 
Just curious if there is any kind of Star Control 3 patch. It used to run great back on my Windows 98SE machine. But I've upgraded hardware several times since then. Now I have a pretty new system with WinXP. It runs...but the sound usually gets screwy and the starmap rotates extraordinarily fast.
I know SC3 isn't all that great. But after beating UQM I sorta got the urge to pop it in again.
So does anyone know of a good way to get around these technical issues? Or maybe even a patch (which I doubt exists)?
-CoeRay
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Kaiser II
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Unfortuantely, there's no patch to make "SC3" into a good game. 
Anyway, I don't know about compatibality patches. As "SC3" was DOS based, you most likely could use a program like DOSbox to run it on modern machines.
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tpb
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I had same problem as you.
And it didnt help to run inn win95/98 mode either.
Simply d/l dosbox who you can find inn the link with a walkthru on setting it up
http://www.abandonia.com/main.php?nav=programs
Runs like a dream, except it aint as good as SC2 ;-)
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VDMSound is quite useful if you want to run DOS-based games under XP without the performance issues inherent in DOSBox. The games that do really nasty tricks (e.g. SC2) don't work under XP/VDMSound, but the games that need lots of CPU power (more than a 486) run much smoother than on DOSBox.
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Nameless One
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How do you get the graphics to work right in DOSbox for SC2? I have graphics card set to 'auto' and the game keeps changing colours into some unreadable combinations.
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