Starsiege Tribes

I know that the last post was in November, 2015. I figured since there was no exact solution listed... I might as well list a solution myself, as well as to provide locations where downloads/patches/etc can be found.

TL:DR, skip to bottom.

I hope that all of these customer support people realize that this game was originally developed and released by Dynamix in 1998, which has been a dead company since August of 2001. The publisher, Sierra Online was killed off in 2008 after it's parent, Vivendi, merged with Activision in 2006. They also ceased all support for the game around 2006-2008, probably due to the merger. Of course, the only "support" provided by that point was maintenance of the Master Server list, effectively killing the game. 

Microsoft, there has been no one to contact for over eight years, and even then the people who Patrick would REALLY need to speak to have been gone for fifteen years. Activision has only recently rebooted Sierra within the past two years, and I can guarantee that no one there will be able to help. Sierra/Activision no longer owns the rights to Earthsiege, Starsiege, Tribes, or anything involving the Earthsiege/Starsiege universe anyway. Hi-Rez studios has owned the rights for some time now, and I seriously doubt that they will sell it back to Sierra or Activision. Whether or not that would be a good thing if it was sold back to Activison, I don't know. (I also doubt that they will help with any support issues either.) I don't mean to be a jerk or anything, but it only takes 5 seconds to find an article on Wikipedia to figure that out, support personnel.

Now, the game wasn't really killed as a few people set up Master Server lists of their own, and there is still a dedicated community playing to this day, much like with Quake. The community has been updating parts of the game as much as they can, including attempts at circumventing the lack of true and thorough backwards compatibility that Microsoft products are well known for, even though they are still based off of the original OS. I even had problems getting Tribes to install on a 2003 E-machines XP.

Now to answer the OP's question, there is a fix for your problem. The problems that you are stating that you have, have existed since Vista. There is already a patch for them and I know that it works on Vista and Win7. I assume that it should also work with Win8 and Win10 and I do recall seeing somewhere where someone reported it working on 8, though it has been a while. There is no guarantee that it will work for you, but it should at least fix the cursor issue and it will optimistically fix the screen size issue. If it does not fix the screen size, I suggest following MrBenMcLean'sadvice to "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings" under the compatibility tab of the program properties. I would also recommend that you force it to "Run as Administrator" and possibly run it in compatibility mode. I also found a link to the tribesone.com forum with someone who had a similar problem on Win10, here. He fixed it by changing his default screen resolution, I assume by that he meant that he right clicked on the desktop and selected either "properties" or "screen resolution" or whatever it is on a Windows 10 PC.

You can find the original games distributed by Hi-Rez at https://www.tribesuniverse.com/

You can find full versions + fixes included (and some include HD retextures or have mods installed) at http://www.gamefront.com/games/tribes. It has been a while so I am not sure which download to direct you to as I am sure that there has been a few new versions by now.

Finally, I go to TheExiled's forums to download what I need to play, but it has also been a long time since I have been there either, and I am not sure as to how regularly it's download page is updated. http://theexiled.pwnageservers.com/. Certain servers may have mods, and you may only be able to find those mods on theexiled's website. http://tribesone.com/ has a good download page as well to, and you might be able to find certain things there that you cant on theexiled's either. Also, yet another site which I know is updated often, http://tribesrpg.org/. Phantom, the site administrator, has a download link for the full game that he has labeled as "having all the filed needed for every Tribes mod", as well as Tribes RPG, and I assume that he does.

Even if this thread is old, I hope that this post may help someone who is searching to relive old memories or for new players interested in a classic, and at one time, famous game known for it's massive maps, large server sizes, seamless transitions, as well as being the first to feature ride-able vehicles. Makes me want to dust off my floppies or even go out and buy an old Win98 or rig a dual boot setup so I can actually have something that will play old games and DOS games easily.

I've upgraded to Window 10 and having problems with Starsiege Tribes, when I open the game I get a "small" screen of the game and my cursor cannot enter it, if I click to full screen it's not in the correct display size and my cursor disappears!

I hope I'm explaining this right, does anybody have an answer?

That game surfaced in 1998, so its one of a bunch from then that will not work with Windows 10

Tribes Ascend is the modern version and its free to play

https://hardcore-games.azurewebsites.net/gr/2012/tribescend.php

This is a feature that reliable operating systems have called "backwards compatibility."

I was able to get the "TRIBES HD 2014 mod" version of Starsiege Tribes working by choosing the "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings" option in the Compatibility tab of the properties for Tribes.exe

I've upgraded to Window 10 and having problems with Starsiege Tribes, when I open the game I get a "small" screen of the game and my cursor cannot enter it, if I click to full screen it's not in the correct display size and my cursor disappears!

I hope I'm explaining this right, does anybody have an answer?

That game surfaced in 1998, so its one of a bunch from then that will not work with Windows 10

Tribes Ascend is the modern version and its free to play

https://hardcore-games.azurewebsites.net/gr/2012/tribescend.php

Hi,

Welcome to Microsoft Community and thank you for your interest in Windows 10.

I understand the inconvenience that you are experiencing. I will definitely assist you.

This issue usually occur due to the driver is out dated. Let’s try the simple steps and check if it helps to resolve the issue. I would suggest you to update the Display driver from Device Manager manually and check if this helps. Follow the below steps:

1. Press (Windows key + X) and click on “Device Manager”.
2. Expand “Display Adaptor”.
3. Right click on the driver device and select update. Once update is done, restart the computer.

Hope this helps. Post us with status we will be glad to help you.