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Helge, were all those machines upgraded to Windows 7 or where they new machines with Win 7 already installed ? ( I'm guessing they were upgraded but IDK for sure )

Do you think the reason some people are having trouble with Win 7 is hardware related ( older sound or video cards etc ) or related to setting up the game to work with Win 7 ??

Did you need to adjust any settings to get the games to work with either the Vista or Win 7 ?

Don

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Originally Posted by DRG (Post 723620)

Don,

I did clean installs on all machines as follows:

1.) Backup all personal important data by manual copying on usb-harddrives
2.) Reboot with the Win-Seven DVD
3.) Repartition the drives to your personal needs and format the drives with NTFS
4.) Install Win-Seven
5.) Manually copy the Win-SPWW2 and Win-SPMBT folder back to your drives
6.) Manually create a desktop link to gameoptions.exe of MBT and SPWW2
7.) Copy this link to your desktop
8.) Right click on the link and set in the compatibility mode "run as admin"

I run both games on all machines in windowed mode, because I have 1600x1200 and 1600x1080 resolution on my PCs and 1280x800 res on my laptop. Only thing I switched off in the gamesoptions app was the intro, since this killed the games due to whatever incompatibility with vista/win7.

Yes, I´m pretty convinced problems to run WinMBT and WinSPWW2 properly are caused due to device/graphic/sound driver issues, since the games seem to use standard Direct-3D and sound API calls. I even can run the two games without having them installed on the harddrives from a 2 gig USB Stick. I indeed already used this method for my pc at work where this method also worked.

I think you can easily test a whole spectrum of OS compatibility by using Microsoft Virtual PC, where you can check out XP/VISTA/Windows Server in Virtual Desktop machines. IIRC I made a post about this last year or even longer in the past.

Ahh, here it is:

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showt...virtual&page=2

and here:

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showp...01&postcount=9

So running the games from a virtual XP machine might be a last help measure for some folks, where due to whatever reason all other help might fail.

cheers

Helge

Thanks Helge. Hopefully this will help those having problems

Don

I have found a very simple solution to my Windows 7 full screen mode problem. Before I start the game I change to the refresh rate for my monitor from 59 Hertz to 60 Hertz. After the game closes, the refresh rate goes back to 59 so I have to do it every time I start the game, but it works every time. I do not have to set the game to Windows XP compatibility or make any other changes in my system.

System Info:
OS: Windows 7
Graphics Card: Nvidia 9800GT
Monitor: AOC 2019Vwal LCD

Dan

Interesting. What problems show up when you don't make this change ??

Do you still need to shut off the intro screen ??

Don

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Originally Posted by DRG (Post 724253)

Interesting. What problems show up when you don't make this change ??

Do you still need to shut off the intro screen ??

Don

I get the garbled screen shown earlier in the thread and no I don't need to make any other changes.

What inspired trying a change in the refresh rate ?

Don

Sorry to jump in but laugh if that solves it, no longer have installed or would test perhaps someone else could, also higher refresh rate like 70Htz if supported.
A question I assume you are set to display at 60 not 59HTz, if so wonder if there is a glitch in Win 7 causing this, doubt very much its the graphic card perhaps someone should tell microsoft

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Originally Posted by Imp (Post 724357)

59hz is certainly not any frequency I have seen ever.

LCD monitors have a typical refresh rate of 60hz, some with a 70hz option.

59hz - could be because you have a hardware problem of some sort perhaps, like a dodgy or over-strained power brick perhaps, or video card not seated properly?

Andy

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Originally Posted by DRG (Post 724350)

What inspired trying a change in the refresh rate ?

Don

I have an old Sony Mulitscan 200sx CRT monitor that has non-standard refresh rates, normally for windows it isn't a problem, however for linux I have to manually edit the xorg.conf to the correct refresh rates or I get garbled video with the nvidia drivers, so I thought I would give it shot and it worked. Nothing else worked.