Win 7 64 bit

Troll · 01-10-2011, 08:53 AM,

Hi guys and gals, just have a question about OS. My puter is on its way out, sounds like a broken chain saw :0 I should be receiving my new puter in a few days, built for High End on line Video Games. MY question is, the OS is Windows 7 64 bit, has anyone found this to be a problem with JTCS?

And if so what were the solutions? I am wondering if my new system could play the game in Compatibility Mode, Win Vista 32 bit. I went on line to win 7 Compatibility Mode center and put in JTCS and nothing came up so I guess windows doesn't care about us :(

Cheers

Joe

**Jason Petho** · (This post was last modified: 01-15-2011, 03:04 AM by Jason Petho.)

Go to the game folders and on the West Front.exe (for example) right click, properties and in the compatibily tab choose to run as Windows XP Service Pack three. Do that for ALL of the EXE files for all the games and it will fuction fine. Also choose to Disable Visual Themes, Disable Desktop Compostion and Disabable Display Scaling on high DPI settings.

I have a new machine with Windows 7 64-bit and that was what fixed it.

Good luck
Jason Petho

Larry Reese · (This post was last modified: 01-10-2011, 03:24 PM by Larry Reese.)

What Jason said. No problems. A good OS; I think you'll like it. (and I"m not a fan of MS - I don't use much of the included software, like the browser, because MS products are so often the target for attack - criminals aren't stupid, attack the weakest and largest link) This is the OS MS should have released 5 years ago.

LR

Troll · 01-10-2011, 07:12 PM,

Thanks Guys

Cheers

Mike Abberton · 01-11-2011, 12:05 AM,

One other suggestion. Unless you know that a piece of software was developed and runs 100% on Win 7 64-bit, do not install it in the default \Program Files or \Program Files(x86) directories. They are access restricted by default and this seems to affect how some software works (especially pre-Win7/Vista software).

This isn't so much a problem with the Matrix version of CS, since Matrix programs generally get installed in the C:\Matrix Games folder by default.

Mike

Crossroads · (This post was last modified: 01-14-2011, 02:57 AM by Crossroads.)

From the Vista OS thread by von Manstein:

There's not even needed to change the compatibility to XP. Only Disable desktop composition should be enough.

I'll be damned! :eek1:

This solved the scrolling issue I had with the Map Editor tool.

Apart from that, I have not put in any special settings for my W7 64bit, and apart from the Map Editor scrolling I have not had any issues (apart from the occasional compression problems?)

cheers

Edit: I used the defaul installation as Mike A. points above. I recall it is important to do that....

Stryker · 01-15-2011, 01:00 AM,

I have JTCS installed on a high-end gaming PC running Windows 7 ultimate 64-bit and didn't have to change anything, it runs just fine as is.

Crossroads · 01-15-2011, 04:45 AM,

(01-15-2011, 01:00 AM)Rudolph Hucker Wrote: I have JTCS installed on a high-end gaming PC running Windows 7 ultimate 64-bit and didn't have to change anything, it runs just fine as is.

So you never had any scrolling problems with the Map Editor either?