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On December 27 2010 12:31 vek wrote:Show nested quote +On December 27 2010 12:26 Adeeler wrote:
You can use VirtualPC which you can download free from MS and install WinXP or w/e in a virtual environment and play BW fine. I played BW fine in Win7 since Win7 RC until SC2 came out. That free thing from MS never worked for me because it always complained it didn't have full screen exclusive mode support. VMWare works fine though. Did you have to do anything special to make it work?
I didn't do much to make it work other then write a batch file to kill explorer(so colours don't mess up) and set it's processor affinity to a single core.
The Virtual PC used to complain I needed a compatible CPU but they updated it so it doesn't. Though I played BW through Win7 directly, was only getting VirtualPC for even older games nostalgia trip.
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Haven't had any problems with Windows 7, definitely has been the best version of Windows so far for me (since Windows 3.11 too). Performance wise it's far better than Vista, and much more pleasant and stable than XP.
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I have BW on my windows 7 computer, and besides the water color problems it plays perfectly fine for me. I can stand some graphical oddities playing a 10 year old game.
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I have loved windows 7 so far... wouldnt use anything else tbh.
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windows 7 is pretty good if you ask me.
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I love Windows 7, don't be hatin, we all have to deal with technical issues with everything. I spent a couple hours yesterday figuring out how to modify an ini file so that mass effect 2 wouldn't crash on start up, because the devs figured they'd put in some terrible mouse settings and a bad command binding. Ended up needed a user made editor, but all is well. And getting X-wing and Tie-fighter to work took FOREVER. I hope you find a solution to your problem, there is nearly always a fix.
EDIT: I got BW to run without the colour problems. I go into task manager, close the explorer.exe (desktop program) process, and start the starcraft exe through the run command. Once I'm done, use run command to restart the explorer.exe. Hope this helps people. EDIT: Same as batch solution above, but less convenient.
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I had a good laugh by watching this thread go opposite direction of what OP intended. I think the hollywood needs to make a new movie called 'Everybody loves Seven'.
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On December 27 2010 13:24 Adeeler wrote:Show nested quote +On December 27 2010 12:31 vek wrote:On December 27 2010 12:26 Adeeler wrote:
You can use VirtualPC which you can download free from MS and install WinXP or w/e in a virtual environment and play BW fine. I played BW fine in Win7 since Win7 RC until SC2 came out. That free thing from MS never worked for me because it always complained it didn't have full screen exclusive mode support. VMWare works fine though. Did you have to do anything special to make it work? I didn't do much to make it work other then write a batch file to kill explorer(so colours don't mess up) and set it's processor affinity to a single core. The Virtual PC used to complain I needed a compatible CPU but they updated it so it doesn't. Though I played BW through Win7 directly, was only getting VirtualPC for even older games nostalgia trip.
Yeah I could get games like Castle of the Winds to work but SC wouldn't launch because it needed full screen exclusive mode. Might try again after those updates because it was quite some time ago I gave it a shot.
Dunno why but my W7 hates BW with a passion. I can only get it to work with DDHack which doesn't let me log onto battle.net to have BGH funtimes or strip aerith :~(
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On December 27 2010 10:43 2Pacalypse- wrote:Show nested quote +On December 27 2010 10:07 MasterReY wrote:
If this werent be a blog i would've hoped you get banned for this.
Such a ignorant wrong post.....
Just because YOU have problems with it, which may be related to some hardware errors or anything else on YOUR side it doesnt mean its microsofts fault.
Millions of people have been installing and working with windows 7 perfectly fine.
I just installed it myself 1 week ago. NO problems at all. 4gb ram. several usb devices plugged in (charging cable for mobile phone, usb hub, usb stick, webcam).
Please please please dont act like this happens with every windows 7 out there and microsoft is 100% guilty for it. Because the main problem is you.
This feeling is increased because you also have "issues" with itunes on XP.....
But thats also microsofts fault i guess, right?
sorry about the harsh "counter-rant" but i just hate people who blindly bash on others because they cant get their stuff working, which is 90% their own fault. There's no need to be so aggressive. Windows 7 definitely has some short comings. The biggest one should be known to most people here, is that Windows 7 is not compatible with old games, ie. BW. This is a huge blunder by Microsoft, because their main policy and the reason why they are so big, is backwards compatibility.
Unless you have Virtual PC which basically makes Windows 7 every operating system. Kind of.
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