Jagged Alliance 2 and Windows Seven[message #241196]
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Mon, 04 January 2010 23:14
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Vladtepes |
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Registered:December 2009 Location: France |
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Hi,
I cannot get Jagged Alliance 2 work on Windows Seven. The screen goes black for a few seconds before crashing to desktop without a single error message (or at least one that I have been able to find). It does exactly the same with Vanilla JA2 1.12 from GOG.com and with 1.13 from the last single click installer build.
I tried various compatibility setting and the tips given for Vista problems without any success... The game does not work either the Win XP mode (the virtual PC included in 7 Pro, not the compatibility setting).
Does anyone actually got JA2 working on Win 7?
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Re: Jagged Alliance 2 and Windows Seven[message #241327]
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Wed, 06 January 2010 18:18
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Vladtepes |
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Registered:December 2009 Location: France |
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No joy:
launch game, screen turns black, CTD "Jagged Alliance 2 Gold stopped working"
Edit: I am dling the SVN version of 1.13 to see if it works. if it does not I should at least have better feedback thanks to the debug exe.
Edit2: It seems there is no ja2debug.exe in svn builds any more... Btw not working with svn version either
[Updated on: Wed, 06 January 2010 19:04] by Moderator Report message to a moderator
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Re: Jagged Alliance 2 and Windows Seven[message #243984]
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Fri, 12 February 2010 10:31
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hsif42 |
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Registered:August 2009 |
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Running Windows 7 32 bit, no issues with installing JA2 AT ALL. I hated installing it on Vista, it would only work by transferring program files from a USB drive. And then it stretched everything for widescreen. But I'm currently running Night Ops, Wildfire 5.0, and 1.13 with Possum DBB (I forget which version) as seperate directories, and all of them work fine. EXCEPT for the fact I sometimes get corrupted saved games. Tried running as administrator, helped it boot faster. Weirdest example of game corruption, crashes on one of my saves during time compression, but only on the hour, unless all squads are travelling at the time. Any ideas how to get around this?
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Re: Jagged Alliance 2 and Windows Seven[message #269921]
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Tue, 11 January 2011 15:49
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Byron |
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Registered:September 2010 Location: US |
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Just as a side note and not off topic i hope. I downloaded JA2 Gold initially into windows 7 with no problem. I set up Urban Chaos and played it for a bit, but really missed the features of the 1.13 mod, so i started looking around and found hybrid the UC-1.13 mod. I uninstalled ja2-UC mod so i could have a fresh install to work with. When i reinstalled the just JA2 gold to the same C:/programs/(86x) folder that i had used before, the game booted up with the first screen off of Urban Chaos loaded. Off a fresh install!! The game froze every time i tried to use it and i went and uninstalled it 2 more times, looking for every file on my system ja2 or urban chaos mod, and deleting them. Finally i tried using a different directory C:/strat and it worked perfectly. I have no idea why the only thing that i could think off is that the image file was saved by windows even after install, and or the possibility that the same directory being used was causing it. Either way i hope to be playing UC-1.13 soon, and hope the universe destroys windows 7 out of good cause.
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Re: Jagged Alliance 2 and Windows Seven[message #271812]
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Sun, 30 January 2011 11:04
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Byron |
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Registered:September 2010 Location: US |
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Thanks for the help JMich. I have weeded out the offender, but i cant really tell you what did it over all, fresh install, and different directory for sure!
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