Demigod needs windows 7 support

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Windows 7 will be out in about a month, and is already available to OEMs, and right now demigod won't install without running it in compatibility mode, and even then there are an inordinate number of crashes. I think this will come up really quickly once OEMs start selling comps with windows seven installed. I could never get it to run reliably on the RC, and the full release is almost here.

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Reply #3 from Demigod Forums Top

Runs fine for me in Windows 7 64bit + Windows 7 32 bit.  Possible driver issue with the OS bsased on your hardware?

Reply #4 from Demigod Forums Top

Im on win 7 x64 and no problem. Its on your side man.

Reply #6 from Demigod Forums Top

Well I have no idea the problem, aside from lack of drivers...arrgh, what a pain. Did you run the installer in a compatibility mode, or do you run it in compatibility mode? Any of you.

Reply #7 from Demigod Forums Top

I've installed it on three Win7 machines, none needed neither Impulse nor Demigod to be run with any compatability modes.

Reply #8 from Demigod Forums Top

I'll add my voice too, to say that my simspeed has even increased a little since I went from Vista 64 to W7 64.

 

What hardware did you try W7 on?

Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top

It's most probably a driver problem, what graphics card / sound card do you have and what Windows 7 driver. I found I had to hunt for a sound card driver for windows 7 and it was a beta.

There really isn't much difference between Vista and Windows 7 as far as most applications are concerned, it's mostly Vista with much better memory management, less intrusive security and a couple of nice but unimportant new features.

The beta hasn't had any problem with any game I've played on it yet.

 

Oh by the way XP compatability mode is for business software and doesn't support Direct3D and things like that. Try without compatability mode.

 

Reply #11 from Demigod Forums Top

Quoting antifood, reply 1
It installed without issue on Windows 7 64bit.
End of antifood's quote

 

What he said.

Reply #13 from Demigod Forums Top

I originally had it installed on an x58 mobo, with a gtx 260, i7 920, asus xonar dx card...however, windows 7 is now running my htpc with a 790gx chipset, radeon 4770, creative xfi xtreme audio, athlon x2 5000+.

Reply #14 from Demigod Forums Top

Running fine on my win 7 64 bit

asus rampage II extreme, i7 920 oc'd, 6 gigs corsair ram, creative x-fi MB

Reply #15 from Demigod Forums Top

After I installed Windows 7, I could not run the game either - come to find out it was a graphics driver issue.  The installer for my Radeon 3850HD installed everything but the most important piece, the graphics driver.  I went into device manager and updated the driver manually.  After that, Demigod has run flawlessly.

I can say that I have an older setup and about midgame on Cata, my simspeed would drop to 1 or 0.  Now on Win 7, I start at 5 and it doesn't drop below 3.

Reply #16 from Demigod Forums Top

come to find out it was a graphics driver issue.
End of quote

Vista's release drivers were pretty horrible. I wouldn't hold out too much hope for the stock RTM drivers on Win7 either.

Reply #17 from Demigod Forums Top

All the flaming this game gets about how it was released, it's nothing compared to how Vista was sent out! :grin:  

Reply #18 from Demigod Forums Top

That's because it's mostly the fault of hardware and software manufacturers, not MS ;)

Reply #19 from Demigod Forums Top

That's because it's mostly the fault of hardware and software manufacturers, not MS ;)

Reply #20 from Demigod Forums Top

That's because it's mostly the fault of hardware and software manufacturers, not MS ;)

Reply #21 from Demigod Forums Top

Try to download the impulse version. May help. who knows...

Reply #22 from Demigod Forums Top

I changed from vista to win7 and while I encountered less errors altogether, I also encountered some new I hadn't before. Win7 support would be nice, but not required.

Reply #23 from Stardock Forums Top

Also, are you working with the RTM version of Vista, or one of the RC (or earlier) builds?  That could very well impact your ability to run the game. 

Reply #24 from Demigod Forums Top

One thing I've noticed about 7 is that if you let it try to install drivers for you, it will install older ones over what youve got

Reply #25 from Demigod Forums Top

Quoting U1tralisk, reply 24
One thing I've noticed about 7 is that if you let it try to install drivers for you, it will install older ones over what youve got
End of U1tralisk's quote

Windows Update doesn't have all the 0day drivers ofcourse. If you install newer ones yourself you shouldn't let WU install them again for you. Drivers are recommended, but not critical updates, you you can chose to install or not install them.

 

Also I wonder what all those people do who claim they get lots of errors or less errors then before :) Other than faulty hardware I get no errors and didn't get any errors with XP either, so I could not comment on # of errors. I had none, I have none :)