straggler13 -> Install of WitPAE is nasty to my PC, and my brain HELP (5/7/2010 8:10:41 PM)
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Since I could not get any of the switches to work, nor could I get any answers to how I might get them to work (so far), today I decided to uninstall subject game and reinstall it. But I cannot even do that. After using the provided uninstaller, plus the Windows/XP control panel software removal app, and, after digging around to try to remove every vestige and bit of icon, exe file, and anything that remotely looked like WitPAE related stuff, I just do not think it can be done... Unless, of course, someone out here has done it. Paying over one hundred bucks for an old game, which is crying out for all kinds of ergonomic and other basic changes, was probably a mistake on my part. But intelligent operational type war games are my bag (thing, hobby, great interest), and I am too old to compete for skill points playing shooter games against fifteen year olds who were born with controllers in their hands. Plus, historically based ops games are more funner -as I have said. And I really have a hard time trying to get the mouse pointer to point at the exact middle of the micro-buttons in WitPAE: an action which is required hundreds of times per move - if not thousands. But that skill is necessary to play this game....Thus: squinty, squinty, - pointy, pointy ,,,let the headache begin. It would be all worth it and perhaps even OK, if I could get the switches to work: providing a more readable font, and, if the run in windows ( switch -w ?) thing works as I hope, the ability to use the magnifying feature in Windows/XP ( less squinty, but same pointy). I see that there are some 32,000 members of this forum and assume that many of them, if not all, are players of WitPAE. So it can't be for lack of interest in this game that more improvements to the more nagging aspects of its character are not addressed. So it must be either that I am one of the few who has problems with it, or the problems are being worked on and will soon be fixed, or these problems are known, but ignored by those good folks who designed and produced this otherwise great game....Is it the “Don't fix it if they'll buy it anyway” philosophy. Perhaps you know that concept: Made more popular lately by the folks at SEGA /Creative Ass/ Total War.... hiding out somewhere in Australia, I believe. I had thought that the major problems I had with putting the switches into the command line might be related to the fact that the PC I built was too 'new' to handle the old protocols in the game's config's and systems file structure, but I had the same problem in trying to install the switches in a rather old lap top: a dreaded eMachine. So, uninstalling it and starting over seems to be called for. But there in lies the rub. I can't even get it to do that. I have tried - as stated above - to find every spec of WitPAE residing in my PC and still I suspect fragments are lurking somewhere. Although I have read many, many posts on these forums, I cannot seem to find the particulars on: 1. How to get the switches installed, when they really, really don't want to be; and 2. Who to uninstall the game so completely that a re-install will be pristine. If I correctly recall, I have had the switches working properly in the past, with a very old copy of WitP. So I throw this problem out there to the general membership, in the hopes that someone out there in this vast community might help me. Thanks, in advance and in anticipation of the day when my complaints about WitPAE will be limited to the ergonomic issues I framed above.( squinty, squinty, - pointy, pointy ).
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