Info Windows 7 *GUARANTEED* fix

NCrawler · #1 April 30th, 2010, 12:02 PM

What do you mean by "you didn't get a win7fix.cmd file"? That is the only file included in the attachment. If you unzipped it to your winspmbt install folder, double-click it to spawn the game. I have Win7 Ultimate x86 and it runs perfectly. Unless there is something specific that Win7 is doing differently in the x64 version, I would think that you would get the same results...

NC

EJ · #2 April 30th, 2010, 09:32 PM

NCrawler,
My 17 in Toshiba has a 1600x900 max resolution. I've tried ALL the lower resolution settings and still the graphics/colors are distorted OR the game simply WON'T play. Obviously this "guaranteed" fix isn't guaranteed for everybody.

NCrawler · #3 April 30th, 2010, 10:23 PM

What video card/onboard graphics do you have in your laptop? Try this, go to start menu and from the search box type dxdiag.exe. When the diagnostic comes up, go to the Display tab and run both tests. This should let you know whether your system will support full screen direct draw...

NC

EJ · #4 May 1st, 2010, 03:55 AM

NCrawler,
Here's a screen shot of my graphics card on my laptop. Let me know what else I can do to get the fix to work.

Imp · #5 May 1st, 2010, 08:04 AM

Can report 2 more fixed machines, one may have been coincidental or just a bad launch but the game locked solid first time used.
Since then he has knocked out a scenerio with no problems.

NCrawler · #6 May 1st, 2010, 08:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EJ

NCrawler,
Here's a screen shot of my graphics card on my laptop. Let me know what else I can do to get the fix to work.

Your dxdiag screen doesn't have half of the tabs/options that I normally see when messing around with computers. If I were you I would download the latest redistributable from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...7-5ab8109cb4f5 and try again...

NC

EJ · #7 May 1st, 2010, 02:22 PM

NCrawler,
I'm NOT computer savy as you. Can you tell me where to install these files from that link?

NCrawler · #8 May 1st, 2010, 03:56 PM

EJ: if you're talking about the redistributable link that I posted, just download the file to your desktop (about 104MB) and when it's finished downloading, just double-click it and it will install the latest DirectX files + all older releases needed to play older games. The error message you are getting makes me think that either:

1. You don't have the required DX files on your system

2. You need to update your Radeon drivers (I would try the reference drivers from AMD rather than the OEM ones from Toshiba)

or

3. Your graphics adapter does not support older versions of DX (not very likely)

I would guess that it is either #1 or #2 but without actually seeing your laptop or one like it I'm just guessing. We have some Toshiba Satellite laptops at work so I'll have a look at one on Monday if you don't get it resolved by then...

NC

RazGator · #9 May 3rd, 2010, 09:02 AM

Will this work with WW2 as well?