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| Other (Wine etc) |
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Studentmac
Space Emperor
Joined: Feb 13, 2008
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My pc has no major issues with SEV, possibly because I stick to 32OS rather than 64 even though I really want to go to 8GB ram.
Pc is quad core, hoping to upgrade that soon but quad doesn't seem too out of date considering some shops stil sell worse processors and charge almost as much as I paid for mine even though I bought it 2 or 3 years ago.
Running vista the now and intend to upgrade to windows 7 as soon as I can get the cd off my cuz, plan on having xp on here too just incase some things aren't compatible.
But is it likely I will have issues playing SEV on windows 7?
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ekolis
Virtual Guru
Joined: Aug 04, 2003
Location: Cincinnati, OH, USA
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| Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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If you had no trouble with Vista, you should quite likely have no trouble with 7 either!
"Figuring out the UI is half the fun!" - Xintis, fan of both SE5 and WarioWare
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cmcastl
Space Emperor
Joined: Nov 14, 2010
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| Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 8:52 pm Post subject: Flashing screen under Windows 7 |
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I bought this game when I had XP and it worked fine. Now reading these theads - yep, now that I have Windows 7 the screen flashes periodically for me also.  Is there a patch or fix for this yet?
Incidentally, I want to install the Battlestar Galactica MOD; do I add it above SE 5 under Malfador or in the SE 5 program itself?
Live long and prosper.
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Studentmac
Space Emperor
Joined: Feb 13, 2008
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| Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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Make sure you update to most recent version of SE (available in download section of this site)
run in windows mode and always run as administratoe and you should be fine, I do have a few crashes, normally youd get them if your pcs not strong enough but i know that isnt the problem
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Skyburn
Space Emperor
Joined: Mar 12, 2008
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| Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 11:00 pm Post subject: Re: Flashing screen under Windows 7 |
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| cmcastl wrote: | | Incidentally, I want to install the Battlestar Galactica MOD; do I add it above SE 5 under Malfador or in the SE 5 program itself? |
Extract the mod to the SE5\GameTypes folder.
 Sky Mod v0.6 Alpha 2
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Jinotad
Space Emperor
Joined: Dec 08, 2010
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| Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 5:53 am Post subject: |
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Works Fine on My laptop, but not on my friends.
Mine
Windows 7 Home
Manufacturer: HP
Model: HP G71 Notebook PC
Processor: Intel Core2 Duo CPU T6600 @ 2.20GHz
Installed Memory (RAM): 4.00 GB
System Type: 64-bit Operating System
Graphics: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD
His
Windows 7 Home
Manufacturer: ASUS Tek
Model: ASUS Notebook G60 Series
Processor: Inel Core I5 CPU M430 @2.27GHz
Installed Memory (RAM): 4.00 GB
System Type: 64-bit Operating System
Graphics: NVIDIA Geforce GS 360M 1GB RAM
My Resolution
1600x900
His Resolution
1366x768
When he tried to play it, his frame rate is between 3-8. However, if he changes his actual screen resolution manually to 1024x768 and the in game resolution to the same. His frame rate went up 3-5 FPS and the mouse movement became a lot smoother.
When he played the game in windowed mode without changing his resolution it is at 35-40 FPS, however his screen size cuts off about an inch of his windowed playing area at the bottom.
SO, my guess is your actual resolution probably has some affect on the frame rate you can get out of the game.
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onomastikon
Space Emperor
Joined: Nov 02, 2010
Location: Germany
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| Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 12:11 pm Post subject: |
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I know nothing about computers but do notice the OP's problems with the "ships" screen (shift-S). I use Windows 7 on my Sony Vaio laptop with 6 gigs of RAM, which gives me great performance when playing things such as Mass Effect 2 or Fallout 3 and lags greatly with SEV.
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R-TEAM
Space Emperor
Joined: Dec 04, 2010
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| Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
mhh ... the game runs not bad on my Game machine (but compared to an modern game like SupCom-FA ... no comment  ) ...
IBM Workstation
Win2003Serv R2 SP2 Ent. 32bit
P4 2.8Ghz
2GB RAMBUS
ATI 1950XT (latest available ATI Drivers)
Have found that safe video mode is a musst have and to avoid the flickering problem i musst commpletely disable AA (AntiAliasing) on my GFX Card setup (use ATI Try Tool).
Then i have zero flickering.
Play on 1280x800x32bit.
Can use all other settings (ingame and GFX card) the max. settings.
(even temporary AA i can use - but no main AA ... weird programming, you know ..)
Dont need to disable any font relatet thing or sound/Music ...
So the game looks not bad and play "acceptable" ... 
Regards
R-TEAM
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bUBBA
Space Emperor
Joined: Jun 28, 2011
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| Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 2:18 am Post subject: fix for w7 troubles |
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i've been having the same problems running windows 7. recommend the following.
under compatibility run xp sp3.
disable: visual themes, desktop composition, scaling on high dpi settings.
run as administrator.
boot se 5
start task manager and end process: explorer.exe
go to applications in task manager and click SE V
works for me. (i'm running it now on a midling notebook!)
intel duo p8600 @ 2.40ghz
geforce 9600 m gt
win 7 pro 64 bit
res - 1280 x 800
when finished playing go to task manager and run process: explorer.exe
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marhawkman
Space Emperor
Joined: Mar 24, 2008
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| Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 12:05 am Post subject: |
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I only have a flickering issue if there's another program running in the background.
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rhohltjr
Space Emperor
Joined: Jul 07, 2011
Location: Texas
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| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 3:10 am Post subject: Dual booting but... |
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| Kontana wrote: | | I don't have Win7 or Vista, so can't really help with issues with those. One option is to setup the computer to dual boot, so you can still run WinXP to play SEV, and use Win7/Vista to do other things. |
I realize this is late to the party but I am dual booting and getting a can't find c:\program error in both Windows 7 and Windows XP. Very frustrating.
Did everyone solve this years ago? Care to throw a few niblets this way?
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Veni_Vidi_Vici
Space Emperor
Joined: Oct 18, 2009
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| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 5:16 am Post subject: |
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As of right now the game works just fine in vista and windows 7. IT may help to use compatibility mode.
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rhohltjr
Space Emperor
Joined: Jul 07, 2011
Location: Texas
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| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 3:56 pm Post subject: Compatibility mode.... |
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| Veni_Vidi_Vici wrote: | | As of right now the game works just fine in vista and windows 7. IT may help to use compatibility mode. |
Uh huh. Are you suggesting that ...
When in Win 7 and I get the "can't find c:/program" error I should attempt it in compatibility mode for Win Vista or WinXP? ?
When in WinXP and I get the "can't find c:/program" error I should attempt it in compatibility mode for Win Vista or Win 7?
Thanks a lot...anyone else have an idea?
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Veni_Vidi_Vici
Space Emperor
Joined: Oct 18, 2009
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| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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Well as to your problem (I was merely inferring that dual boot may not be necessary) How is the drive partitioned? I am not familiar with Dual booting but I know enough about Computers to know that there must be some partitioning involved. Changing the install partition may help. Similarly I have run SEV off of a Flash Drive before. Have you tried that?
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marhawkman
Space Emperor
Joined: Mar 24, 2008
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| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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the error is in the system getting confused by the space in "program files".
Allowing spaces in file names was a bad idea.
anyways, one possible solution is to change the install directory to c:\Games\etc... but what is giving you the error? if it's a hyperlink you could probably fix it by putting quotes around the file/path name. see: http://www.flickr.com/photos/11951562@N08/5947065278/in/photostream
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Fyron
Galactic Guru
Joined: Aug 04, 2003
Location: CA, USA
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| Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 3:25 am Post subject: |
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You should not have SE5 in the Program Files directory under Vista/Win7 in any event. It does not work properly in a protected system path.
Smarter than your average Texrak.
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rhohltjr
Space Emperor
Joined: Jul 07, 2011
Location: Texas
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| Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 4:58 am Post subject: |
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| Veni_Vidi_Vici wrote: | | Well as to your problem (I was merely inferring that dual boot may not be necessary) How is the drive partitioned? I am not familiar with Dual booting but I know enough about Computers to know that there must be some partitioning involved. Changing the install partition may help. Similarly I have run SEV off of a Flash Drive before. Have you tried that? |
Dual boot systems are wonderful. I agree with the fellow answering after you did. One problem is the space between "Program" and "Files". But to add to add to that, I downloaded the game from Steam so the shortcut points to "steam://rungameid/1690"
I don't know how the heck a start up command can ever make it's way to the executable through that maze of landmines. I also know that I am not the only one running Win 7 or Win XP and using Steam. Someone else on these very boards must have seen this before. Someone must know a work around for it. 
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Veni_Vidi_Vici
Space Emperor
Joined: Oct 18, 2009
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| Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 6:16 am Post subject: |
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If you right click on the game name in steam and go into properties you can tell steam to fix the game which would fix a corrupt file. The directory for steam games is Steam/AppData/Common/(Space Empires 5 maybe?) if my memory serves me right. A space in between Program and Files is okay. Before / after is not.
Also why/how does running out of Program files not work. I have always ran the game out of program files with no discernible related problem and I know that for steam the entire steam directory must be uninstalled then reinstalled for it to work.
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Fyron
Galactic Guru
Joined: Aug 04, 2003
Location: CA, USA
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| Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Also why/how does running out of Program files not work. |
Did you disable UAC?
Smarter than your average Texrak.
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BlueTemplar
Space Emperor
Joined: Mar 27, 2007
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| Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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- When I run SE5 directly under Win7, I get low framerates in the design ship screen and all the list screens take an eternity to load.
- When I run SE5 inside a Virtual Box with Win XP, the design ship screen and the lists are blazingly fast, but the FPS in the main system screen is horribly sluggish.
I guess it's time to dust off an old Win XP hard drive!
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ekolis
Virtual Guru
Joined: Aug 04, 2003
Location: Cincinnati, OH, USA
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Veni_Vidi_Vici
Space Emperor
Joined: Oct 18, 2009
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| Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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AMD/ATI graphics cards released a fix 5 months ago. Update Catalyst
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BlueTemplar
Space Emperor
Joined: Mar 27, 2007
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| Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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I updated Catalyst recently. Did not seem to help. And wouldn't have helped anyway for the most problematic issue that is the list load times.
Anyway, I just found a program that makes it very easy to setup a dual boot with Win XP : EasyBCD
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Veni_Vidi_Vici
Space Emperor
Joined: Oct 18, 2009
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| Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | BlueTemplar
PostPosted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:09 am Post subject:
I updated Catalyst recently. Did not seem to help. And wouldn't have helped anyway for the most problematic issue that is the list load times.
Anyway, I just found a program that makes it very easy to setup a dual boot with Win XP : EasyBCD |
Hm. Could be you are missing the Direct X files left out of win 7. I have also had it in the past where I needed to uninstall drivers then install the update.
Does it run in RGB emulation?
Long list load times seems to be the PC compiling the list. It is always much faster the second time and increases with empire size.
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ekolis
Virtual Guru
Joined: Aug 04, 2003
Location: Cincinnati, OH, USA
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| Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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Oh, also, with the lists - there's a bunch of options that let you disable certain list columns that take particularly long to load. Try toggling those and see if that helps...
"Figuring out the UI is half the fun!" - Xintis, fan of both SE5 and WarioWare
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