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Windows 7 Beta help!!! Graphics corruption

February 8, 2009 2:46:37 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums

Hi all,

  My system is a Dell XPS M1530 laptop.  I installed the Windows 7 Beta last night.  Nvidia only offers drivers via Windows Update.  I installed these drivers and Sins of a Solar Empire is pretty much unplayable.

  Everything looks fine initially.  But when I go to the research screen there are textures misplaced all over the screen so I can't see anything on the "artifacts" screen and the images to the left of the research trees are messed up too.

  Anyone else had this issue and fixed it somehow?

 

Thanks!

/VaporKnight

 

[UPDATE]:  I seem to have fixed the problem by installing the Windows Vista x64 Video drivers.   Time will tell I guess.

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Reply #1 February 9, 2009 11:21:52 AM
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Yeah, we're not yet supporting Windows 7 because the drivers are a mess at this early point (Vista's were terrible even months after release...).

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Reply #2 February 16, 2009 1:15:34 AM
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Ya, its a driver issue.  I got lucky though.  I can run sins on my old dell E1405 with intel GMA945.  The drivers that I have work fine, and I can run sins on an two and a half year old laptop.  Glad you got it working though.

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Reply #3 February 16, 2009 11:13:00 AM
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I must be really lucky, Sins works on WIndows 7 on my computer. but it didn't work before entrenchment.

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Reply #4 February 16, 2009 11:31:29 AM
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I'm not sure if this will help or not, but downloading the latest Vista drivers (from nvidia's site) lets all my games work properly under Windows 7, the installer actually includes beta drivers for Windows 7

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Reply #5 February 16, 2009 4:28:03 PM
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I have had no problems with w764 and an ati4850 useing both the w7 sourced driver and the ati sourced catalyst 812 for w7

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Reply #6 February 16, 2009 4:59:52 PM
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I have an NVidia Gforce 8600 GT and I downloaded the prerealese drivers from NVidia and It works fine with sins.

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