Info: Windows 7 *GUARANTEED* fix

[Render]

Processor : Intel Core 2 Quad QX6700 @ 2.66GHz
Mobo: Nvidia Nforce 680i SLI
RAM: 4 GB
GPU: Single Nvidia GeForce 8800 Ultra (786GB)(DirectX 10)
Total Disk Space: 1.5 GB (5x250GB RAID config)
OpSys: Win 7 x64 (new install a couple of weeks ago)
PSU: Enermax Galaxy 1000watt (yeah the office lights dim when I turn it on)
Monitor: Samsung 906BW 20-inch

Rig bought used to replace the dead XP rig. No overclocking. Handles COD 4, COD/WAW, and Steam/BF2BC quite well, (or as well as the terminally buggy BF2BC will run on anything).

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NC: That icon-less crashing on this rig, it won't even ctr-alt-del, just nothing.

oh man I so wish there was some way to save what was on those drives from the old rig, but they've gone to hard drive heaven along with the mobo, cpu, ram, and DVD. Burned silicone smell, scorch marks on the mobo and ram, DVD door jammed by melted plastic (except via the paper clip trick) and non-spinning (never seen that happen before). I saved as much as I could of the important stuff to thumb drives (MyMoney, docs, photos, vids) while it was still cooking itself. And then it was gone with a couple of last beeps...RIP old friend.

I think you misunderstood what I meant by lag. I'm used to the AI taking a bit of time with the extreme size scenarios I like to play (in both SPWW2 and SPMBT). The AI turns in SPWW2 are (were) sometimes a good time to go out for a smoke break...

What I'm talking about is happening when moving my own units, or just watching the air/artillery and AI phases. Units will move several hexes and then freeze, before moving a few more hexes and freezing again etcetc.

I tend to run defrag and clean-up once a week whether or not it needs it (486 days habit) and I generally turn off all processes not needed prior to gaming (P4/Day of Defeat habit).

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Don: I set up the Misc tab settings the same way as they were on the old rig. I'll try fiddling with them again tomorrow AM and let you know what happens.

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NEVER
SAY
DIE,
R

[Imp]

Hard to tell whats going on but as you mention bad eyes why not buy it & play in windowed mode.
Nice crisp screen & you can set to fill the screen or leave a strip down one side about one icon wide so you can still launch other stuff.
Solves your lag problems & I think full screen would be stretched as thats a widescreen monitor.

[DRG]

Win 7 allows you to set up applications to "emulate" one of the earlier versions of windows. In this case you need to ensure the GAME exe is the one running emulation NOT game options.

Has this been tried ??

Don

[Render]

Ayup NC, all drivers were updated when this rig was re-built for me three weeks ago. I bought it used, cuz it was cheap and the payment plan was easy.

The dead rig was a single hyper-threaded 3.2GHz CPU with 1.75GHz of RAM and a 7600GT video card running XPPro SP3. Built to play Day of Defeat.

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First settings (taken from previous XP rig):
Scroll speed: 200
Graphics Delay: 10
Unit Move Delay: 50

Final Settings (long weekend):
Scroll Speed: 125
Graphics Delay: 1000
Unit Move Delay: 25

Ground and air units still hesitate every three hexes on long moves. Direct fire and indirect fire animations are very slow (read the serial numbers on the shells as they go by slow). Reducing the unit move delay below 25 made moving units a little nuts and didn't seem to effect the three hex hesitation. There is also a brief hesitation when clicking on each unit and when hitting spacebar on each unit, sometimes I have to hit the spacebar twice to bring up the unit window.

What's the maximum available graphics delay? That does seem to have helped a bit, but I'm not sure how far to push it...is 99999 a viable number?

I'll try it with the animations turned off tomorrow.

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The fix file skips the settings screen and goes right to the pre-game splash screen (wasn't that kind of a no-no?). This means loading the game without the fix, changing settings, and then exiting, before loading the game with the fix file for each test run.

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Don: I had previously tried emulating XP and Win98 without the fix file. I'll add that to tomorrows list. I normally run without any game sounds. Could that hesitation be related to the sound files? (something else for tomorrows list - I'll try it with the sounds on.)

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Small miracles department: I found a back-up of almost all of my saved game files on a thumb drive, 400 or so out of 500+. I'll take it, it's more then I expected...

CARRYING
ON,
R

[NCrawler]

Originally Posted by Render

The fix file skips the settings screen and goes right to the pre-game splash screen (wasn't that kind of a no-no?). This means loading the game without the fix, changing settings, and then exiting, before loading the game with the fix file for each test run.

If you are comfortable using a hex editor to modify your main .exe to start the game (so that you can modify settings), I can post instructions. That's how I start the game...



NC

[Imp]

Now know of some Windows 7 systems this was used on, again all fixed.
Might be worth adding a second download for SPWW2 or saying need to edit what it points to in notepad for it to work as some people dont seem to realise.

[Render]

I'm back.

My previous Win7 rig died a horrible and unexpectedly untimely death (motherboard fried and took the RAM, CPU, and GPU with it).
There is no RMA on used rigs...


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New weapon:

Win7Pro64.
EVGA P55 mobo/Intel I7 875K 4GHz unlocked CPU (first ever liquid cooled for me)
4GB Corsair RAM (expanding to 8GB when I find the money)
Single EVGA 470GTX 1.3GB overclock
Thermaltake TR2RX 850watt PSU
All wrapped in a brand new jet black Coolermaster Haf+ 922 mid-tower.
Still using the same Samsung 906bw monitor and the same five internal hard drives ( moment they're 320GB each, not 250GB).
Lightscribe and LabelTag 24x DVD's.

$1100 (or 850 78rpm records out of my album collection)

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Pending work schedules I'll be back to testing the DL version sometime next week. Hoping to find the Paypal cash to order the real version before Christmas.

HAPPY
HOLIDAYS
Y'ALL,
R

[Rich]

For the record, as I posted earlier, I get the same lag. Somewhat different system but same os. I tried emulating other os in the shortcut with no luck.

[DRG]

The shortcut to what ???.... the game EXE or the gameoptions EXE?

Don

[Render]

Don - I think Rich is referring to the fix file when he says shortcut. It skips the gameoptions exe and goes into the pre-game splash every time.

The lag effect is only on full screen, in windowed mode the game runs very smooth. But in 800x600 it's painfully small, even on a wide screen.

Does the full blown version allow one to change the size of the window in windowed mode?

UNBEATEN
PATHES,
R