#4143070 - 07/05/15 10:33 AM
Re: Windows 10. Build 10162
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Great news indeed!
I am curious about this completely free offer from MS to upgrade to Windows 10. Just concerns me about the old adage ... 'Beware of Greeks bearing gift's' Nothing is ever free anymore and cautious there may be a hidden agenda lurking.
ShoGun did you take up that offer and if so, how do you think Win10 stacks up to previous platforms?
If this all works out I may even dust off the cobwebs and give an oil change to the old Spit.
Cheers
One Flash.......and ur Ash!!
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#4148759 - 07/20/15 07:58 PM
Re: Windows 10. Build 10162
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Agreed Sho. I am running W10 on this new PC There is a single EAW140 installation 7-zip file on its way to OneDrive at the moment. All the patches have been applied, and it is named "140InstALL". This will save newbies from having to install 140 and then have to download and install the patches. See you online very soon
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#4148994 - 07/21/15 11:41 AM
Re: Windows 10. Build 10162
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#4152068 - 07/30/15 06:10 AM
Re: Windows 10. Build 10162
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Which version of the EAW exe are you running? The reason that I ask is thata few months ago something happened that promted me to try to add an additional copyright notice to the exe because of the extra code that the code group added. That involved editing a file containing the copyright text, and building new exes. There were no problems until I tried it with Windows 8.1. The mouse had disappeared, just like you describe. Why this file should affect the mouse appearance I cannot fathom. However, rebuilding an exe with the old version of this file brought the mouse back. Since then all the exes I have made run in windows 8.1 and windows 10 with no mouse problem. So it may be that you are running one of these strange exes.
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#4261888 - 05/19/16 11:02 PM
Re: Windows 10. Build 10162
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#4261950 - 05/20/16 05:56 AM
Re: Windows 10. Build 10162
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So am I, but the differences in our hardware must be coming into play somehow. With W10 I have not needed to use the d3dwindower or a glide wrapper. I seemed to recall that there were problems with the d3d windower in some of the early W10 builds, but I just tried it again and it worked well. It has been a solution to selection screen graphics problems in W7, so it is worth giving it a try in W10 I have just put a "D3DWinEng.exe" (7-zip) on the download page.
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#4263752 - 05/25/16 01:17 PM
Re: Windows 10. Build 10162
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OK a history lesson When EAW was being written hard drives were tiny and space was at a premium. So Microprose came up with ways to save space, including using selection screens such as "Main2.pic" being their own form of compressed 8-bit PCX files. Routines in the exe decompress and display them. However, the exe also has a routine that checks that the user's graphics card and driver can handle 8-bit graphics. If it cannot the exe CTDs with the 7217 error message. This became a real problem for EAW users back in 2000 because when they updated their systems the many of the newer cards only supported 16-bit graphics. Will Gee helped us with a work-around that kicked in and tricked the exe into thinking that the card supported 8-bit, and displayed the screens, even though a slight downside was stuttery mouse movements. His code was added to the original 1.28 release, and has been included in all subsequent versions. The d3d windower also circumvents 7217 somehow. Windows 10 appears to have some routines of the same ilk. What I suspect is happening now is that some of the newer cards only support 64 bit graphics and Will's work-around was for cards that supported 16-bit and not 8-bit.
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#4264024 - 05/26/16 12:49 AM
Re: Windows 10. Build 10162
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That's so weird. The clipping of the screen, anyone, would that be a refresh problem? Are you using a multiple desktop?, or is the desktop size in your video card settings something other than 'no scaling'?
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#4264144 - 05/26/16 02:04 PM
Re: Windows 10. Build 10162
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Given the problems that you have had with XP that is far from the case LOL. With the security flaws I would not touch it with a bargepole, unless I had no other choice. If you analyse Tulaig's problem it is straightforward. he has a 3840x2160 pixel monitor, twice the size of the one I use at home. So he did something to make his text more readable. We do not know why, at this stage, but it affected the running of EAW. Undoing it fixed the problem, and it may not be a problem specific to Win 10. My desktop PC is running EAW in Win10 very well indeed.
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CD WOFF
by Britisheh. 03/28/24 08:05 PM
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