Windows 7 beta on friday.

Post by **FatherJack** » May 11th, 2009, 12:29

Hehulk wrote:Punkbusting Gaems

In Steam I have Doom3, Prey and RtCW from that list, so will give them a go. I know the SP games of those all ran fine under Fista 64, but I guess Punkbuster's for the online component.

Post by **TezzRexx** » May 11th, 2009, 13:15

I never had a problem with COD 4 or Beef 2 after I updated punkbustáir under Fista.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » May 11th, 2009, 13:19

TezzRexx wrote:I never had a problem with COD 4 or Beef 2 after I updated punkbustáir under Fista.

That doesn't really cover W7, does it?

Post by **FatherJack** » May 11th, 2009, 16:58

FatherJack wrote: In Steam I have Doom3, Prey and RtCW from that list, so will give them a go. I know the SP games of those all ran fine under Fista 64, but I guess Punkbuster's for the online component.

These games seem okay with both the vanilla and pbsetup-updated Punkbuster versions. Only Doom3 had servers to connect to though, had to run my own for the other two.

Post by **Dog Pants** » May 11th, 2009, 18:33

Sound fixed. It has a strange system where it lists all your outputs seperately and even knows if something's plugged in. I'm a bit baffled by it at the moment because it's different, but I expect once I'm used to it I'll love it.

I've noticed things being a lot faster though. Steam loads much faster, and the few installations I've tried (FF, Steam, Xfire) seem to have been very fast too. No crash issues yet either.

Post by **deject** » May 11th, 2009, 19:16

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:
That doesn't really cover W7, does it?

I read somewhere that PB can't run its services on W7 yet, and so PB enabled games don't work, or something like that.

Post by **FatherJack** » May 11th, 2009, 19:35

deject wrote:I read somewhere that PB can't run its services on W7 yet, and so PB enabled games don't work, or something like that.

It didn't seem to list them as services, but I connected to PB servers without incident, in Doom3 at least.

Lee · Post by **Lee** » May 11th, 2009, 20:46

Dog Pants wrote:Sound fixed.

You should really disable your motherboard sound in the bios. It'll stop any weirdness in future and it won't be stealing CPU cycles for no reason.

Post by **Dog Pants** » May 11th, 2009, 21:08

Lee wrote:
You should really disable your motherboard sound in the bios. It'll stop any weirdness in future and it won't be stealing CPU cycles for no reason.

I thought I had, but maybe one of the firmware updates reset it. I keep meaning to check but I always forget to hit DEL.

Post by **TezzRexx** » May 12th, 2009, 12:43

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:That doesn't really cover W7, does it?

Windows 7 is just Fista with nobs on!

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » May 12th, 2009, 12:45

TezzRexx wrote:Windows 7 is just Fista with nobs on!

just. no.

Post by **TezzRexx** » May 13th, 2009, 10:03

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » May 13th, 2009, 10:41

TezzRexx wrote:<insert>

Sorry, what the fuck are you banging on about?

Post by **TezzRexx** » May 13th, 2009, 13:32

Nevermind.

Davius · Post by **Davius** » May 13th, 2009, 18:59

So your saying that i shouldn't back up my important stuff to my 500gb and completely format my 150gb inc XP and install Windows7.

I have to/should do this dual boot malarcy?

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » May 13th, 2009, 19:29

I'd back everything up and go dual boot with XP and W7.

Davius · Post by **Davius** » May 13th, 2009, 19:36

Gayness is faaabulous.

I sense more 'help me' related posts in the near future

Edit: Mods are evuls!!!!! grrrrr

Nvm last i had no idea g a y was a buzzword lol Pretty sweet how it worked out for that comment though heh

Post by **TezzRexx** » May 13th, 2009, 20:15

XP and Windows 7 is pretty painless

Davius · Post by **Davius** » May 18th, 2009, 9:28

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:
Then, use acronis disk director (I like this, because it works pretty reliably) to do the partition fettling.

Anyway to get this without paying 30 freaking nuggets for it?? Frustrating getting partitions ready perferct then pressing commit and it promptly tries to rape my wallet.

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » May 18th, 2009, 9:50

Davius wrote:Anyway to get this without paying 30 freaking nuggets for it??

I used Easus PM: http://easus-partition-manager.en.softonic.com , which did the job for me. I had a free disk though, so I can't say how well it does at keeping your data intact. Always backup everything before attempting to edit partitions.

For a non-Windows approach, Ubuntu Live CDs come with GParted.

edit: I tell a lie, it was only free for a one day special offer. Ubuntu then.