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Offline jephreester

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Windows 7 Beta
« on: January 17, 2009, 07:22:31 am »
Greetings. I just started playing via the Steam version and found this forum searching for tips and walkthroughs.

Nice game! Nice Forum! Thanks!

Anyway I just wanted to point out here that I cannot run the game under Windows 7 Beta. It runs beautifully under XP Pro on the same computer but under the 7 Beta after the loading bar the FPS goes down rapidly until the game crashes.

I get an error that the game needs to close and then in the event log there is an OpenGL error. Anyway I am playing under XP but just wanted to point this out.

If anyone would like the exact error logs I can recreate the issue and send them along. Perhaps it is a conflict with DirectX 11? Windows 7 is using the same nVIDIA driver as XP.  Perhaps the Vista driver would help but I was never prompted to load or update this driver. Windows 7 adopted all my XP drivers upon install.

I have had no issue with other games. I've tested Bioshock; Crysis; and also Spore as of now.

Anyway just to let you know. And thanks again for the forum!

~jeff
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Re: Windows 7 Beta
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2009, 07:26:47 am »
Good heads-up to Alec - that's useful to know for the next patches, if Alec is still with Aquaria when Windows 7 comes out (I'm sure he will, Aquaria is his baby).  :)

- Welcome to the forums, Jeff! This is one of the more refined of the forums online, though anyone and everyone joined after the Mac and Steam releases  ::)  :). (The spam bots were especially unwelcome)

BTW, Any news on the Ferrari, Alec?  Right, Ferraris.  ;)
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Re: Windows 7 Beta
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2009, 12:06:57 am »
It's running great here under Windows 7, just as it did on both XP and Vista. Try downloading their latest 181.20 driver, it's what I'm using.
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Re: Windows 7 Beta
« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2009, 06:31:42 am »
Thanks for the replies.

Dirhael: It probably is a driver issue as you point out. I cannot get 7 to update the driver. Did you use the Vista version from NVIDIA?

I tried that and it even came up in SETUP as Windows 7 but the install froze. Any attempt to reinstall Windows pops up telling me the latest driver is installed etc.

Anyway it is apparently an issue with my computer. Glad the game will run on 7!

I will try to get a new driver on there. Thanks.

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Re: Windows 7 Beta
« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2009, 04:50:43 am »
Yeah! It works!

After removing then reloading the nVidia driver via Windows Update it now runs very fine!
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Re: Windows 7 Beta
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Re: Windows 7 Beta
« Reply #6 on: January 20, 2009, 06:32:43 am »
Haha!  :) A little weird, but funny.
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Re: Windows 7 Beta
« Reply #7 on: January 20, 2009, 05:58:27 pm »
XKCD is awesome. Always.
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Re: Windows 7 Beta
« Reply #8 on: January 20, 2009, 06:18:06 pm »
This one's my favorite:  :)

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