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Win7 and SFC?
« on: October 27, 2009, 04:10:24 am »
Anyone got Win7 up and running yet?

Tried to see if this fixes the Vista problems???

Bueller?
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Re: IE7 and SFC?
« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2009, 08:14:59 am »
Anyone got IE7 up and running yet?

Tried to see if this fixes the Vista problems???

Bueller?

Aren't we on Internet Exploiter 8, or are you thinking of windows 7??? ;)

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Re: IE7 and SFC?
« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2009, 08:17:37 am »
Anyone got IE7 up and running yet?

Tried to see if this fixes the Vista problems???

Bueller?

Aren't we on Internet Exploiter 8, or are you thinking of windows 7??? ;)

Windows 7 still a no-go with Dynaverse.  Dual-boot is the way to go.
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Re: IE7 and SFC?
« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2009, 08:48:26 am »
Anyone got IE7 up and running yet?

Tried to see if this fixes the Vista problems???

Bueller?

Aren't we on Internet Exploiter 8, or are you thinking of windows 7??? ;)

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Re: IE7 and SFC?
« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2009, 09:41:19 am »
Anyone got IE7 up and running yet?

Tried to see if this fixes the Vista problems???

Bueller?

Aren't we on Internet Exploiter 8, or are you thinking of windows 7??? ;)

Windows 7 still a no-go with Dynaverse.  Dual-boot is the way to go.

Yeah I mean win 7...frack...few if any will going to go through the trouble of a dual boot

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Re: IE7 and SFC?
« Reply #5 on: October 27, 2009, 10:24:46 am »
Anyone got IE7 up and running yet?

Tried to see if this fixes the Vista problems???

Bueller?

Aren't we on Internet Exploiter 8, or are you thinking of windows 7??? ;)

Windows 7 still a no-go with Dynaverse.  Dual-boot is the way to go.

Yeah I mean win 7...frack...few if any will going to go through the trouble of a dual boot

For v1 of SFC4 I'd be happy with OP as it is that works in W7.
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Re: IE7 and SFC?
« Reply #6 on: October 30, 2009, 04:23:12 pm »
Anyone got IE7 up and running yet?

Tried to see if this fixes the Vista problems???

Bueller?

Aren't we on Internet Exploiter 8, or are you thinking of windows 7??? ;)

Windows 7 still a no-go with Dynaverse.  Dual-boot is the way to go.

Yeah I mean win 7...frack...few if any will going to go through the trouble of a dual boot

 Not to mention old farts like me, who doesn't even know what it means, and even less on how to do it. :-\

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Re: IE7 and SFC?
« Reply #7 on: October 30, 2009, 10:20:25 pm »
I don't have Win 7 yet, but will on the next round of computers.  For anyone who does, does Win 7's compatibility feature work w/ SFCOP?

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-windows-vista-compatibility-mode/

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Re: IE7 and SFC?
« Reply #8 on: October 30, 2009, 10:22:04 pm »
I don't have Win 7 yet, but will on the next round of computers.  For anyone who does, does Win 7's compatibility feature work w/ SFCOP?

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-windows-vista-compatibility-mode/


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Re: IE7 and SFC?
« Reply #9 on: October 31, 2009, 06:31:09 pm »
Pestalence might be working one something though.

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Re: IE7 and SFC?
« Reply #10 on: October 31, 2009, 07:13:45 pm »
I've tested every configuration possible to get D2 working on Windows 7.. No Go.

Dual boot is the only way to go currently with XP on a separate partition.

A ticket has been submitted to MS, but don't hold your breath on this getting resolved.

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Re: Win7 and SFC?
« Reply #11 on: November 02, 2009, 05:22:21 pm »
The only other solution is to have 2 HDDs one with Win7 /Vista and the other one with XP.This is what I am thinking of doing .

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Re: Win7 and SFC?
« Reply #12 on: November 03, 2009, 04:23:37 am »
You can do that with 2 HDDs however with Windows 7, and the demand of games; having 2HDDs, i would Raid 0 Stripe them for the access speed and then make a partition and install Win 7 on the main partition and XP on the second partition. this way you get 6 Gb/s transfer rates for both Win 7 and XP.


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Re: Win7 and SFC?
« Reply #13 on: November 03, 2009, 09:31:12 am »
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Re: Win7 and SFC?
« Reply #14 on: November 03, 2009, 09:34:00 am »
The only other solution is to have 2 HDDs one with Win7 /Vista and the other one with XP.This is what I am thinking of doing .

The cleapest solution is to buy a used laptop with XP on it.... ;)


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Re: Win7 and SFC?
« Reply #15 on: November 03, 2009, 10:22:07 am »
RAID 0 is like Russian roulette in your PC. Lose either disk and you lose everything.


But the speed increase is AWESOME.   Just run frequent backups.
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Re: Win7 and SFC?
« Reply #16 on: November 03, 2009, 02:02:08 pm »
The only other solution is to have 2 HDDs one with Win7 /Vista and the other one with XP.This is what I am thinking of doing .

The cleapest solution is to buy a used laptop with XP on it.... ;)


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Re: Win7 and SFC?
« Reply #17 on: November 03, 2009, 09:36:09 pm »
Read this in another gaming forum. Likely this has been looked at already, but thought I would post it up here anyway, just in case.

"If you get W7 Professional, you can install an XP compatibility mode option, which basically runs programs that are compatible with XP but not with 7 in an XP virtual machine. So cross-compatibility should not be an issue."

*Edit: Reading the other thread on this topic it appears that this has already been thoroughly tested.  :-\
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Re: Win7 and SFC?
« Reply #18 on: June 25, 2010, 06:06:11 am »
Read this in another gaming forum. Likely this has been looked at already, but thought I would post it up here anyway, just in case.

"If you get W7 Professional, you can install an XP compatibility mode option, which basically runs programs that are compatible with XP but not with 7 in an XP virtual machine. So cross-compatibility should not be an issue."

*Edit: Reading the other thread on this topic it appears that this has already been thoroughly tested.  :-\

According to my teckies, what Ronin posted should be correct. I just got win7 and its ok... but a bugger trying to reconfigure. But most new computers now have win7 home premium installed and all you have to pay for is the win7 professional package which up here in is about 140 Canadian

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Re: Win7 and SFC?
« Reply #19 on: June 27, 2010, 08:07:03 pm »
Just got two PC with Windows 7 so good timing as ùi set out on this path ...