Win 7 testing

Faerith · Post by **Faerith** » Fri May 29, 2009 8:03 am

It came up in a conversation, weither or not drakan will work in windows 7. Is anyone going to try it?

I started to download it.. but it's going to take me about 3 mounths I think.. yay dialup

So I'll let everyone know how it goes sometime in the near future!

Arokhs Twin · Post by **Arokhs Twin** » Fri May 29, 2009 7:46 pm

We are shortly getting a developer's preview copy at work so we will be testing it when it arrives. I will see if I can test Drakan on it.

Outlaw Wyvern · Post by **Outlaw Wyvern** » Fri May 29, 2009 10:58 pm

That's convenient!

Faerith · Post by **Faerith** » Fri May 29, 2009 11:13 pm

good stuff! unfortunatly for me i'm only getting 100mb per night

Faerith · Post by **Faerith** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 9:24 am

The good news is that it runs on windows 7!

now for the bad notes: (my computer issues)
-Frame rate is much slower by about half 60 down to 30
-Fullscreen flicker: it leads up.. i got a mouse pointer pinned in the image, otherwise if that doesn't happen it will flicker in fullscreen mode with a black window box frequently, it can be disruptive.
***(note, this seems to be resolved if you start drakan on the desktop only (windows are open but not shown on screen)
-Crashes if you attempt to get out of the game to windows via ctrl alt del, doesn't alt tab into windows (xp onward x.x)
-Crashed once in alwarren (too much going on possably?)

These are just a few tests. i'll keep trying.

Faerith · Post by **Faerith** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 9:24 am

Well. It runs flawlessly now.
-make sure task manager is not running to prevent window flashes
-use Win98/2k compy mode to fix random crashing

Eris · Post by **Eris** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 12:01 pm

And what about other common crashes? The intro cutscene crash?

Arokhs Twin · Post by **Arokhs Twin** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 5:06 pm

Thanks for the update. I haven't tried it yet on Windows 7 as we still haven't got our beta copy from Microsoft.

Faerith · Post by **Faerith** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 11:18 am

No cutscene crashes here, no alwarren crash at all.. it runs smoothy, just when you try ctrl alt delete out of the game to desktop it crashes like ruddy nora.
so remember to quicksave!
I had issues playing it on 1024x786 so i downgraded the res to 8x6, no more in game crashes (this computer is outdated by 2 cpu generations now)

This is an AMD + Geforce 5500fx, i'm sure if it runs on this that it won't have too many issues with other computers. Hoorah for pre-good news!

Shelim · Post by **Shelim** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 7:17 pm

@Faerith - never ever initial cutscene crashed on Geforce 5500fx card. This bug happen only on 6600 and newer cards. I suspect that it is because of some method of old DirectX which Surreal used to copy frame from frame buffer which is no longer supported on modern architecture (or, more precisely, modern drivers).*

So, you did not provide answer whether or not cutscene will crash

* - a bit of technical info: Everytime when Surreal programmers used that techinque of bitblting frame in memory, they should check the return value of function to test if it's null. And they do it, so the game runs smoothly and don't crash everytime when someone change menus. *But* they forgot to do this once... in leaving the "difficulty choose" menu. When you select any difficulty, game will crash. But the game will crash also when you hit escape in that menu. So really, this is not a cutscene error, as it is commonly named

Faerith · Post by **Faerith** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 7:44 am

that's weird.. i don't think the cutscene crash ever occured on my xfx geforce 8600GT

Arokhs Twin · Post by **Arokhs Twin** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 8:35 pm

Works flawlessley on my copy as well even with a Geforce 7600GT graphics card. Developer mode has to be enabled but other than that seems fine. I didn't try multiplayer as there was no-one online at the time.

System specs P4 3.4Ghz HT, 2GB RAM, Soundblaster live and AGP Geforce 7600GT 256Mb. Win 7 ultimate release candidate. Using standard drivers shipped with Windows 7. Have to say Windows 7 is much better than Windows Vista. It's quick even on my 5 year old PC and it works! Unlike Vista; click... lag.. crash. Reboot. Click... lag. Click... lag.. Crash. Go back to Win XP.

Bregolas · Post by **Bregolas** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 8:10 pm

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Arokhs Twin

Works flawlessley on my copy as well even with a Geforce 7600GT graphics card. Developer mode has to be enabled but other than that seems fine. I didn't try multiplayer as there was no-one online at the time.

System specs P4 3.4Ghz HT, 2GB RAM, Soundblaster live and AGP Geforce 7600GT 256Mb. Win 7 ultimate release candidate. Using standard drivers shipped with Windows 7. Have to say Windows 7 is much better than Windows Vista. It's quick even on my 5 year old PC and it works! Unlike Vista; click... lag.. crash. Reboot. Click... lag. Click... lag.. Crash. Go back to Win XP.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVbf9tOGwno

Got a message from Dragon_Spyro that he's trying out Drakan TAG on Win7 and it runs with 50 FPS o__O Way better than XP, says he[8D] I'm jealous...

Outlaw Wyvern · Post by **Outlaw Wyvern** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 8:32 pm

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Bregolas

Got a message from Dragon_Spyro that he's trying out Drakan TAG on Win7 and it runs with 50 FPS o__O Way better than XP, says he[8D] I'm jealous...
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Please post any updates you get related to this, and any other details... if you are interested in posting them.
Thanks.

Bregolas · Post by **Bregolas** » Fri Aug 28, 2009 1:39 pm

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Outlaw Wyvern

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Bregolas

Got a message from Dragon_Spyro that he's trying out Drakan TAG on Win7 and it runs with 50 FPS o__O Way better than XP, says he[8D] I'm jealous...
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Please post any updates you get related to this, and any other details... if you are interested in posting them.
Thanks.
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Here you go, here're the details I got from Dragon_Spyro. He's been using a usual pcsx2 emulator with latest plugins and he's got a fairly good PC (Core i7 with 6 GB RAM, GeForce gtx 285 with 1 GB RAM). He suggests it's because of his hardware that the game works so good, but he even had to limit FPS, the performance being so high. He's been using Win7 ever since he's got his new PC so I've no idea how the game would look like under WinXP... But had I such a machine, I would try playing TAG again!

There's also one tip on that I learned from Eris, as instead of Pcsx2 0.9.x which I used she used Pcsx2 Playground. Eris told me this version of Pcsx is better for TAG but I've never tested it as it doesn't work for me for some reason... Hope that helps!:)