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Windows 7 beta - No Joy

Won't run on Windows 7 64bit

February 8, 2009 11:32:21 AM from Stardock ForumsStardock Forums

I cant get the game to run on Windows 7 Beta - 64bit.  The games load to the launch panel, I can get through the game setup dialog, but the programs hang when you try to launch the game. Runs nice on Windows Vista 32bit.

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DethAdder
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Reply #1 February 8, 2009 12:23:54 PM
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The base game DL ran fine for me on the default Win 7 64-bit drivers, but neither expansion pack would. I installed the Vista 64bit Graphics Drivers onto Win 7 and got both DA and TA to play. I have had TA crash a couple of times, but on both occasions it was after it had been running for 6+ hours, during which I switched focus back and forth to it repeatedly. So I'd say it's decently stable. I have also had no problem with any other games since switchig the drivers.

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Reply #2 February 8, 2009 12:39:34 PM
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I have had TA crash a couple of times, but on both occasions it was after it had been running for 6+ hours, during which I switched focus back and forth to it repeatedly.

Was this fullscreen or windowed?

I had an issue ages ago (obviously not in 7) where GC2 would crash on me due to alt tabbing out constantly from fullscreen-after I switched to windowed it went away.

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Reply #3 February 8, 2009 1:50:18 PM
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I should of mentioned. I run windowed at the resolution of my primary monitor so I never minimize it, but have windows on top of it at times as well as doing things in the other monitor. I haven't run fullscreen mode since before DA came out so I'm not sure what issues that would have.

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Reply #4 February 10, 2009 12:14:09 PM
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I've been running it for several days now in Full Screen on 7 64 bit.

Sometimes it ccrashes on startup but it eventually starts and then runs liek a champ.

I alt-tab in and out a lot.

Ray

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Kyle Lionheart
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Reply #5 February 14, 2009 5:27:07 PM
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Have you tried installing the latest Vista graphics drivers? I had a lot of crashes with Win7 32bit with default drivers(from WU), but after installing the latest drivers from nVidia it now works fine

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