ok time to bring up the dead since mechwarrior 5 was so "overwhelmingly" good that it made me miss the old mechwarrior 3.
ok to get it installed on windows 10 on 64 bit proffesional and above do following but first obtain patches 1.1 , 1.2 and amazingly enough a high rez patch to run 1920x1080 is available here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cldiX4BG7F8 with instructions
1 obtain an ISO of mechwarrior 3 or convert your original disk to ISO
2 mount the ISO on virtual drive (recommend deamon tools lite)
3 open ISO in new window from your virtual drive
4 click on installer windows 10 will tell you which compatibility mode to run it
5 run installer in compatibility mode (windows 98/ me seems to work on most systems)
6 install
7. patch the game (add hi rez patch optional)
8 run the game
9 enjoy!
i tried it on windows 10 home edition and install fought me with hand tooth and claw and no i will not say more about it.
but as long as you can get a copy of virtual windows xp from microsoft which is available for free you should be able to run and install mechwarrior 3
now how in the bloody world i can get the microsoft sidewinder joystick to work with it. once i do i will post it
if some one already knows let me know
ill look into mechwarrior 4 soon
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ok apparently i came across something that got triggered on my friends windows 10 professional edition during the game install. direct play was required to play the game. apparently he did not have it installed. we let it auto install and tried to install the game again ... no issues after direct play was installed.