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#2893702 - 11/03/09 09:56 AM Crimson Skies on Windows 7
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I have not been able to play Crimson Skies for a while now due to Nvidia graphics drivers that broke something in the game on Windows XP. The only way to fix it was to use some really old drivers and I was not willing to do that. But now that Win 7 is out, I guess the drivers don't break it anymore. I even found a couple of patches that fix the corruption in the menus and let you set your own game resolution too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5NqCqTwaeU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vd2v-5bons
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#2893756 - 11/03/09 10:59 AM Re: Crimson Skies on Windows 7 [Re: speedbump]
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Those were pretty cool videos.

Thanks

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#2893805 - 11/03/09 12:24 PM Re: Crimson Skies on Windows 7 [Re: Whammo]
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Very cool speedbump! I really enjoyed Crimson Skies.

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#2893904 - 11/03/09 02:52 PM Re: Crimson Skies on Windows 7 [Re: piper]
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You know it's an alternate universe when Zeppelins are involved!! biggrin biggrin
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#2893915 - 11/03/09 03:13 PM Re: Crimson Skies on Windows 7 [Re: ArgonV]
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Unless they're LED Zeppelins!

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#2893931 - 11/03/09 03:34 PM Re: Crimson Skies on Windows 7 [Re: LeemzHQ]
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Light Emitting Diode Zeppelins?! Now that's futuristic!!
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#2894047 - 11/03/09 08:04 PM Re: Crimson Skies on Windows 7 [Re: speedbump]
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Originally Posted By: speedbump
I have not been able to play Crimson Skies for a while now due to Nvidia graphics drivers that broke something in the game on Windows XP. The only way to fix it was to use some really old drivers and I was not willing to do that. But now that Win 7 is out, I guess the drivers don't break it anymore. I even found a couple of patches that fix the corruption in the menus and let you set your own game resolution too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5NqCqTwaeU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vd2v-5bons


Great news speedbump. I loved the alternative parallel world thing of CS on the old xbox and in a moment of nostalgia recently I acquired the PC version but had the same issues as you after installing on XP with nvidia gpu. A real disappointment and unplayable. I guess this is a bit of a nudge to upgrade to 7 eh wink

More vids please Smile2 I'm only familiar with the xbox version which, from what your vids show at least, is vastly different to the PC version.

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#2894202 - 11/04/09 05:38 AM Re: Crimson Skies on Windows 7 [Re: catch]
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I'm going to post them all from 1 through the last on Youtube. There are two patches. One is from MS and the other is a hack for the resolution and corruption of the menus.
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