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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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#3073108 - 08/13/10 01:26 PM Re: Crimson Skies on Windows 7 [Re: speedbump]
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I got Crimson Skies the other day but just can't get it running. Can you give me a hand with it? I feel like I'm missing one of the instructions.
Win 7 64.
Installed the game, ran the 1.02 patch, extracted the csfix.7z files to the root folder.

I have compat mode set to Win 98se and run as admin. Have also tried running as Win 85.
I've gotten the small menu as expected, but I either get the strobing white screen at mission briefing (doesn't go away, and can't see anything) or it goes to the game, but all I see are wireframes of the zeppelin, or I did get it to run the game on software rendering, but horrible color and pixelated.
Usually the main menu is just the red flag, I have to alt-tab out and back in to see the menu options.

I'm choosing Accelerator Primary Display, and the drop down at 1024 x 768, but my understanding is that the text file overwrites that?

csfix looks like this:

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[Main]

;Set to 1 to use a 32 bit render target, to solve issues with broken dithering
;Corrupts the intro screen, and causes a couple of artifacts on menus
Use32BitColour=1

;Set to 1 to force a specific screen resolution
;Menu's don't look as good, but it removes screen transitions and lets you use non 4:3 resolutions
;Warning: Has a tendency to induce mild epilepsy on the briefing screens
OverrideRes=0
ScreenWidth=1280
ScreenHeight=1024

;Disable usage of the high performance counter
;Fixes the crash on startup on some newer cpu's, can also be fixed by running in win95 compatibility mode
DisablePerfCounter=1

;Force NONPOW2CONDITIONAL texture caps
;Fixes blocky text on menus, and in game crashes when text is displayed
ForceNP2=1

;Forces the use of a single processor core
;Fixes threading issues on multi-core processors
SingleCoreMode=1



Any ideas?
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#3073142 - 08/13/10 01:57 PM Re: Crimson Skies on Windows 7 [Re: Raw Kryptonite]
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Ok, I forgot to enable the custom res but most importantly I was using the orginal .exe to start it. Used the Application-1 (whatever it is) and it started up. Good stuff!
Thanks for putting those files up before.
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