Windows 7?

[TheDesertFox]

Originally Posted by DRG

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

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