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I received a very friendly reply from Stephen Robertson:
Hi Ronny,
Thanks for the kind words and many many thanks for keeping the I-War community alive!
I did offer the I-War directX8 patch to GOG, but they didn’t want it at the time. I supplied them nearly all of their supplemental materials though, including high quality versions of the soundtrack which they were very pleased to receive.
I’m happy to give the patch to GOG if they want it but reluctant to just release it to the community as I do not own the rights.
If GOG/Atari say it’s ok to distribute then I’d be happy to give it out.
However last time I tried the patch (some time ago) it didn’t render all the DirectX8 effects correctly. Now that Nvidia has fixed some of the I-War 2 rendering issues maybe it’ll work, but there’s a chance it won’t work properly on modern hardware.
Best regards,
— Steve
I will contact GOG again and ask them if they want the patch now, so maybe we can get it released with the game.
If they don’t want that, maybe Atari will be friendly to us? 🙂 We’ll see.
Space. The final frontier.
Just to give you an update: On Monday I received a message from GOG:
Hello, just to make things faster, could you point me to that post that states the patch was sent to us? It will make investigating and searching faster, as all I am seeing is that the patch is already about 10 years old and might not work on new systems, but no files, I probably missed something.
Regards,
Natalia
GOG.com SupportSince then, nothing. I’m beginning to think that they don’t have the patch anymore.
So the next step will be asking Stephen Robertson for a copy 😛
Edit: Sent a mail to Stephen.
Hi Stephen,
first of all, let me thank you for working on such an amazing game like Independence War 2. It made my childhood so much better and I still play it nowadays from time to time.
Last year we relaunched our community on i-war2.com and the games got a little more attention due to the Steam release. Since then, we’re going pretty strong. People are still sending in content for the games to this day.
We discovered some posts from you in our old forums and on GOG stating that a DirectX8 patch was finished, but never released and that you had actually send this patch to GOG.
I made contact with GOG, but they basically replied that they never received any patch. They even asked me where I got this information from.
So I kindly like to ask if you can get me a copy of this patch? I’m fully aware that I’m not allowed to release it unless Atari gives the go for it. It’s just very difficult to nag Atari about letting us release a patch we don’t even have in the first place. 😉
I hope your answer will be positive, so our I-War fans can maybe get a little polish for EoC after all of these years. However, I fully understand if it’s not.
Regards,
-Danny
Space. The final frontier.
Just to give you an update: On Monday I received a message from GOG:
Hello, just to make things faster, could you point me to that post that states the patch was sent to us? It will make investigating and searching faster, as all I am seeing is that the patch is already about 10 years old and might not work on new systems, but no files, I probably missed something.
Regards,
Natalia
GOG.com SupportSince then, nothing. I’m beginning to think that they don’t have the patch anymore.
So the next step will be asking Stephen Robertson for a copy 😛
Edit: Sent a mail to Stephen.
Hi Stephen,
first of all, let me thank you for working on such an amazing game like Independence War 2. It made my childhood so much better and I still play it nowadays from time to time.
Last year we relaunched our community on i-war2.com and the games got a little more attention due to the Steam release. Since then, we’re going pretty strong. People are still sending in content for the games to this day.
We discovered some posts from you in our old forums and on GOG stating that a DirectX8 patch was finished, but never released and that you had actually send this patch to GOG.
I made contact with GOG, but they basically replied that they never received any patch. They even asked me where I got this information from.
So I kindly like to ask if you can get me a copy of this patch? I’m fully aware that I’m not allowed to release it unless Atari gives the go for it. It’s just very difficult to nag Atari about letting us release a patch we don’t even have in the first place. 😉
I hope your answer will be positive, so our I-War fans can maybe get a little polish for EoC after all of these years. However, I fully understand if it’s not.
Regards,
-Danny
Space. The final frontier.
According to this:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/353370/discussions/0/458604254459139986/
the Steam controller is recognized as keyboard and mouse and not as a game controller.
This shouldn’t be a problem though, I-War 2 supports keyboard and mouse. Someone would have to merge the mouse.ini control file with the correct keyboard commands to control the game.
[quote=”Chessking” post=20066]I think the highest quality joystick you could get is the one Schmatzler has.[/quote]
That’s true. I have the Sidewinder Force Feedback Pro. They built the thing with light sensors. Normal joysticks have pots to adjust their axis, which will wear off after a while and become unreliable.
Also, it has two big beefy motors than can really hurt your arm. 😛
But I wouldn’t recommend it for a non-technical user. Because it only has a gameport and you need Windows XP to get the Force Feedback working, UNLESS you build a USB adapter with this project:
https://code.google.com/p/adapt-ffb-joy/
There’s a guy who builds these things, but he’s slow. I’m waiting since November for the next run:
http://www.iowajohnsons.com/FFBVert/FFBVert.html
Space. The final frontier.
According to this:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/353370/discussions/0/458604254459139986/
the Steam controller is recognized as keyboard and mouse and not as a game controller.
This shouldn’t be a problem though, I-War 2 supports keyboard and mouse. Someone would have to merge the mouse.ini control file with the correct keyboard commands to control the game.
[quote=”Chessking” post=20066]I think the highest quality joystick you could get is the one Schmatzler has.[/quote]
That’s true. I have the Sidewinder Force Feedback Pro. They built the thing with light sensors. Normal joysticks have pots to adjust their axis, which will wear off after a while and become unreliable.
Also, it has two big beefy motors than can really hurt your arm. 😛
But I wouldn’t recommend it for a non-technical user. Because it only has a gameport and you need Windows XP to get the Force Feedback working, UNLESS you build a USB adapter with this project:
https://code.google.com/p/adapt-ffb-joy/
There’s a guy who builds these things, but he’s slow. I’m waiting since November for the next run:
http://www.iowajohnsons.com/FFBVert/FFBVert.html
Space. The final frontier.
Mmh I think I fucked up here.
3 days ago my personal wordpress blog was attacked, because…Wordpress. Since then I am on some major e-mail blacklists, because…spam.
So if GOG answered me, it may have never reached my mailbox 😛 SHIT.
I’ll just wait a little until I’m off of the blacklists and do all this over again. -.-
Space. The final frontier.
Mmh I think I fucked up here.
3 days ago my personal wordpress blog was attacked, because…Wordpress. Since then I am on some major e-mail blacklists, because…spam.
So if GOG answered me, it may have never reached my mailbox 😛 SHIT.
I’ll just wait a little until I’m off of the blacklists and do all this over again. -.-
Space. The final frontier.
The tech support requires a dxdiag report, I guess this will really just go to a callcenter agent somewhere who has no idea what I’m talking about 😀
But there’s also a “Other” section where I sent it to. I received an ticket number, so that’s at least some progress 😛
I won’t give up. As an ultra last resort I guess I could still reach Stephen Robertson. But of course he can’t give me the legal go I need.
Space. The final frontier.
The tech support requires a dxdiag report, I guess this will really just go to a callcenter agent somewhere who has no idea what I’m talking about 😀
But there’s also a “Other” section where I sent it to. I received an ticket number, so that’s at least some progress 😛
I won’t give up. As an ultra last resort I guess I could still reach Stephen Robertson. But of course he can’t give me the legal go I need.
Space. The final frontier.
Alright, it’s been two workdays and I didn’t receive an answer.
I used the press contact email, since I didn’t think standard tech support would help me here. I’ll send the mail again to tech support as the last resort.
If there’s no response, I’ll try to find an Atari contact.
Space. The final frontier.
Alright, it’s been two workdays and I didn’t receive an answer.
I used the press contact email, since I didn’t think standard tech support would help me here. I’ll send the mail again to tech support as the last resort.
If there’s no response, I’ll try to find an Atari contact.
Space. The final frontier.
I wonder if it’s really that impossible to use the Steam controller.
I mean, I-War 2 sees controllers just like Windows does.
As long as the Steam controller is accessible in the Windows game controller options and has standard axes and buttons for its inputs, it should be possible to add it in the game.
Unless there’s a bug in the drivers, but I doubt it.
If that damn thing wouldn’t cost so much, I would try it. But I’m very happy with my old Xbox Classic Controller and the Sidewinder.
Space. The final frontier.
I wonder if it’s really that impossible to use the Steam controller.
I mean, I-War 2 sees controllers just like Windows does.
As long as the Steam controller is accessible in the Windows game controller options and has standard axes and buttons for its inputs, it should be possible to add it in the game.
Unless there’s a bug in the drivers, but I doubt it.
If that damn thing wouldn’t cost so much, I would try it. But I’m very happy with my old Xbox Classic Controller and the Sidewinder.
Space. The final frontier.
