Windows 7, my laptop died
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*Grograt* gary.r.horder@gmail.com Posted Mar 8, 2010, 2:33 pm |
Ok, my lappy just died so i am having to get another, the question is does darkwind run ok on windows 7 home ... anyb ody running the new system | ||||
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LoSboccacc Posted Mar 8, 2010, 2:39 pm |
I run it on both 64bit and 32bit editions, only problem is that if you change resolution you have to restart it or as soon as you enter an event it crashes
there is also a strange crash on the loot screen, but it's probably unrelated as it happens also when I play from the mac. |
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FireFly Posted Mar 8, 2010, 3:12 pm |
Runs flawlessly on my 7, or well, as "Flawlessly" as darkwind runs on anything 
Not the most stable client, I must say, then again, its so quick to start again so its no real bother... And grograt, get 7 either way, it is the best windows OS thus far. |
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LoSboccacc Posted Mar 8, 2010, 3:16 pm |
true. if you have enough ram you'll be surprised how lean and fast it is. |
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*Grograt* gary.r.horder@gmail.com Posted Mar 8, 2010, 3:36 pm |
Cheers lads, just ordered this ]Packard Bell so i wont be off DW for long ( especially if i can steal the wifes mac tonight ) looks ok for the money 4 gig of ram anyway | ||||
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lordbam Posted Mar 8, 2010, 3:55 pm |
most operating systems do.... |
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LoSboccacc Posted Mar 8, 2010, 4:00 pm |
except vista 
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FireFly Posted Mar 8, 2010, 6:28 pm |
Nah, with enough ram, vista is fast to, I had it for a year ;) | ||||
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LoSboccacc Posted Mar 8, 2010, 7:18 pm |
had it too, on a 6gb rig with raid 0 raptor disks and vista was continuously trashing them. with 7, after a game is loaded the disks are usually turned off for all the session until I save - just my two cents | ||||
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Joel Autobaun Posted Mar 9, 2010, 4:28 am |
Vista does do things to harddrives. Esp if you use a lot fo the deisk searching stuff and the dreamscapes(which is ominously missing in win 7).
Face it win 7 is vista sp3. Sucks, but it is better (on the same machine here). |
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*Grograt* gary.r.horder@gmail.com Posted Mar 9, 2010, 9:36 am |
As long as it out performs my old HP pav 6000 ill be happy, never liked vista, all the permissions you had to agree too, has windows 7 got the same.... allow this allow that ...go on another pop up , system or is it more stream lined..... any little features i should know about | ||||
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LoSboccacc Posted Mar 9, 2010, 9:42 am |
it has slightly less annoying popups, still be prepared to agree to launch darkwind each time (workaround: give write permission to write in the darkwind folder to Users)
...aaaand because of that, is a tad more vulnerable to virus than vista. it's strongly advised to use an adblocker to surf internet, just in case. I personally run it without an antivirus but I'm a bit of an hardcore user so your mileage may vary. I've hijack this installed just in case, but never used it. My grandpa instead get a virus almost on a weekly basis, in spite of the antivirus installed (and I've tried norton, avira and ms security essential - none of them prevented anything) |
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*Grograt* gary.r.horder@gmail.com Posted Mar 11, 2010, 12:47 pm |
 another day of no DW roll on tomorrow
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lordbam Posted Mar 11, 2010, 12:54 pm |
Unplug keyboard, mouse and network cable. Remove user. Put in a safe. Put armed guard in front of safe. There now your windows is secure. as for Microsoft Security Essentials... Instead of making a virus scanner, they should work on fixing the bugs the virusses exploit. |
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Mad Mike Posted Mar 12, 2010, 1:13 pm |
It all falls down to users.... if the user doesnt realize that the website pop up that just said your computer is at risk click here to scan is actually a rogue antivirus or antispyware the writers of those softyware will always win...
or when computers can do a disk image ever morning quickly then if you get something that day, just reimage and go... also saving all your files online will cure that problem... but of course when thin client is back and no resident operating system then users are safe from everything |
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Mad Mike Posted Mar 12, 2010, 1:14 pm |
but back to topic... being able to load everything into memory and not use the hard disk is the absolute best...
windows 7 isnt a leap forward but at least a step forward and not backward ie windows millenium if you can keep your computer powered you can set up a partition in memory or how ever many gigs you want and install a virtual machine of windows and have your whole system running in memory alone.. however one power glitch and everything is gone unless you have a nice battery backup |
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Thin Izzy Posted Mar 19, 2010, 4:13 am |
Just upgraded to Windows 7 but now the client doesn't load properly... I get the little "Game client is loading" popup box but then nothing.
EDIT: tried setting compatability mode, was already running as administrator... tried a complete uninstall then reinstalled it and the only thing this did is reset the sound settings to the defaults. I can hear the sound through speakers/headset but the lobby never comes up nor is there anything in the Task Manager to indicate that the client is even loaded. |
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LoSboccacc Posted Mar 19, 2010, 7:56 am |
does the client without the java launcher start? | ||||
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Thin Izzy Posted Mar 19, 2010, 2:25 pm |
Not sure what you mean by that. I have Java, and have had it for some time, if that's what you're referring to. | ||||
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LoSboccacc Posted Mar 19, 2010, 2:35 pm |
I was talking about launching the darkwindclient program instead of the darkwindlobby one | ||||
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Thin Izzy Posted Mar 19, 2010, 6:56 pm |
Don't really see why you'd want to do that.
EDIT: just finished a bunch of updates plus installed a newer video driver... I'll see if that does anything. EDIT #2: Yep, that's fixed it. Lobby loads correctly now. |
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Zeewulf Posted Aug 5, 2010, 10:13 pm |
I've tried running this in both admin adn compat modes and nothing works.
I click on the client and nothing happens, no error message nothing. I'm running windows 64 bit. Any ideas ? |
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Joel Autobaun Posted Aug 5, 2010, 11:19 pm |
see above. When I installed Win7 all I had to do was update the nvidea driver for DW to work. | ||||
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Mad Mike Posted Aug 6, 2010, 8:09 pm |
Microsoft is trying to kill openGL by not including openGL in the microsoft video driver that loads during installation.
the video driver that loads is a microsoft driver, not an ATI or Nvidia driver.. really sucks you have to DL the drivers from the Manufacturers website to get OpenGL Compatibility |
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*viKKing* Posted Aug 6, 2010, 8:11 pm |
The very thing I updated on my Windows 7 labtop was video driver from manufacturer website...
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*Grograt* gary.r.horder@gmail.com Posted Aug 6, 2010, 8:38 pm |
still cant grab screen shots with the on board system on windows 7 they just come up black | ||||
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Joel Autobaun Posted Aug 12, 2010, 9:02 pm |
it's going to be a video driver/card setting gro. |