Twilight of arnor not working on Windows 7

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I installed dread lords, Dark avatar and twilight of the arnor through impulse and i cant play them on windows 7 64 bit. The game loads fine but when i get to the race selection screen and select a race the computer locks up. Is anyone else having this problem? all 3 of the games worked fine on windows xp 32 bit.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

For me DL works ok on Win7 64bit but the other two freeze/crash upon trying to load a map. It is an early beta OS and as yet not supported. So while not getting any official support maybe someone has a solution and come by and share it with us :) .

Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Judging W7-64 performance based on XP-32 IS a bit ... well ... optimistic. :P

 

Best bet would be to send debug logs etc. to Stardock so they can start working on full compatibility.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I was unable to run it on Windows 7 x64 as well. I could get through setting the game up but when it went to load the map it would hang.  Anyway, I did a Windows Update and it had an Nvidia Prerelease driver available. After letting windows update install that the game will run.

Good luck!

Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

THanks for the replies but it still doesnt work. I once got it to play the game as the thalians but soon after starting it crashed. and it seems that windows 7 cant shut it down once it crashes.

I also sent the debug.err file to stardock and they said that since windows 7 is a beta they are not going to upgrade their games to work on it until it comes out.

I find it strange that I have games that came out before vista but they still work on windows 7 but Sins of a solar empire and Gal Civ 2 Twilight both don't work. Sins just gets lots of minidumps. Why are stardock games so incompatible with new operating systems?

Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

It's not Stardock games, but rather windows.   :jafo:    This is what happens when you steal an operating system  :ninja:     and THEN try to put your own OS on the market!   :thumbsdown:

Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

An update, since I haven't seen any further posts on this. I have gotten both DA and TA to work on Win7 64bit by using the Nvidia Gfx drivers for Vista 64. Haven't had a chance to test deep into a game yet, but all seems well on both expansions after running through a few turns on each.