Is COH compatible with Windows 7
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DJ_Shecky,
Posted on: 2009-10-13 10:35 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
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Yes, it is.
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Originally Posted by Teeko
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We'll see....
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Same here for the last 2 months. Well, I did have a single instance of CoH not responding/locked up, but even that is a better average than the pretty low average of about 1 crash per month under XP 32 bit.
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Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
I've been playing it on the 64 bit Win7 RC without issues.
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Definitely is. I've been running CoX on Win7x64 since it went to RTM in August, and I'm pretty sure I tooled around with it when it went into public beta much earlier than that.
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I've been running it on Win7 RTM on 2 machines. Be careful though cause if you have a 9800GTX+ you might have to run it in Windowed mode (stupid BFG not patching the BIOS on the card like eVGA and Gigabyte did so we could update drivers).
Either way though it does work well.
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Compatible? Yes.|
Originally Posted by Teeko
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Officially supported? No. They don't even officially support Vista yet. lol
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System Requirements for City of Heroes (Last Updated: 06/12/2009 04:53 PM) * Microsoft Windows 2000/XP |
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What NCsoft® products are supported to play on Windows Vista™? (Last Updated: 09/23/2009 08:51 AM) Currently, only Aion, Guild Wars and Lineage II are officially supported to play on Windows Vista. However, all of our products should play on Windows Vista without issue. |
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Ditto. For at least a few months. Not one problem with the game itself.
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Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
I've been playing it on the 64 bit Win7 RC without issues.
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That's good to hear. I just went to a Microsoft launch event today (Oct 14) and as part of the package, we were all given copies of Windows 7 Ultimate, and I would like to migrate my two systems to x64 and pile on some additional RAM in my desktop system.
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My August Sirs,
COH does not support my Windows 7 machine.
The launch screen won't.
The launch screen locks up very fast and ugly, have to trundle out the Task Manager to scrape it off the desktop. I just reinstalled COH on my 32bit machine which has been running COH for three years. Aion won't launch either, but no one cares about that really.
My contact with support has been... arms length. They suggested visits to webpages which have arcane solutions for XP and Vista problems. "force the port number" is my favorite. I implemented all of the recomendation.
City of Heroes is not launching on my machine, ergo not supported. I am 4 days out in rl and counting. I think a more industrious effort to be ready for a new operating system would have been far superior to "lets make my fire troller pink".
Yours,
Jack Noir - Knights of Justice, Guardian and Virtue
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Originally Posted by Jack_Noir
My August Sirs,
COH does not support my Windows 7 machine. The launch screen won't. The launch screen locks up very fast and ugly, have to trundle out the Task Manager to scrape it off the desktop. I just reinstalled COH on my 32bit machine which has been running COH for three years. Aion won't launch either, but no one cares about that really. My contact with support has been... arms length. They suggested visits to webpages which have arcane solutions for XP and Vista problems. "force the port number" is my favorite. I implemented all of the recomendation. City of Heroes is not launching on my machine, ergo not supported. I am 4 days out in rl and counting. I think a more industrious effort to be ready for a new operating system would have been far superior to "lets make my fire troller pink". Yours, Jack Noir - Knights of Justice, Guardian and Virtue |
Have you bothered to ask for support here on the boards? I'm sure someone might be able to suggest a few things should something show up in a CoH Helper posting. At the very least that will give people here an idea of what hardware you're running and which version of the drivers.
We'll see....
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That actually sounds like you are not right clicking and running the program as ADMIN, which you need to do (You can also go into the properties and tell it to always run as admin).|
Originally Posted by Jack_Noir
My August Sirs,
COH does not support my Windows 7 machine. The launch screen won't. The launch screen locks up very fast and ugly, have to trundle out the Task Manager to scrape it off the desktop. I just reinstalled COH on my 32bit machine which has been running COH for three years. Aion won't launch either, but no one cares about that really. My contact with support has been... arms length. They suggested visits to webpages which have arcane solutions for XP and Vista problems. "force the port number" is my favorite. I implemented all of the recomendation. City of Heroes is not launching on my machine, ergo not supported. I am 4 days out in rl and counting. I think a more industrious effort to be ready for a new operating system would have been far superior to "lets make my fire troller pink". Yours, Jack Noir - Knights of Justice, Guardian and Virtue |
Its a common issue if you have Vista or Win7.
Now on the support for Windows 7, Win 7 was officially released last week. The official statement is that CoH is not supported even on Vista, but it does work on Vista, just like Win 7.
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My August Sirs (gender neutral),
You are right DJ it does make a difference to my problem to run in Admin, the launch screen does exactly the same thing but I dont have to get the Task Manager out to remove it, the close buttons work.
It turns out that I did look at the other postings and realized that the problem was with the XP version I was updating from, I was using a new disk and had slapped on a barebones version. So I formated and redelivered XP, service pack 2 next, and three hits of Windows Updater. When I installed Windows 7 this time COH-updater would launch, it would also download the new version, and start COH proper, which ran.
I am a happy guy right?
When I finished loading drivers and security software (Computer Associates), updater will launch with a lot of machette work in the background on the CA software. But when COH loads it tells me that I need a DirectX 8 or later, I have just installed DX-10 and that I have no keyboard, trust me on this, I have a keyboard.
Pardon me for starting in the middle;
Well Jack, see my response to your post in the other thread.
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My August Sirs (gender neutral),
You are right DJ it does make a difference to my problem to run in Admin, the launch screen does exactly the same thing but I dont have to get the Task Manager out to remove it, the close buttons work.
It turns out that I did look at the other postings and realized that the problem was with the XP version I was updating from, I was using a new disk and had slapped on a barebones version of XP to start from. So I formated and redelivered XP, service pack 2 next, and three hits of Windows Updater. This time when I installed Windows 7, COH-updater would launch and it would download the new version and start COH proper, which loaded and ran.
I am a happy guy right?
When I finished loading drivers and security software (Computer Associates), updater will launch with a lot of machette work in the background on the CA software. But when COH loads it tells me that I need a DirectX 8 or later, I have just installed DX-10 and that I have no keyboard, trust me on this, I have a keyboard.
Pardon me for starting in the middle, I run;
nVidia MOBO with intel Core2 Quad and 2 GB of ram
nVidia 8800 GTX GPU
Logitech G13 game controller and multi channel sound through Yamaha
Regards,
Jack Noir Knights of Justice
Well, I said this in the other thread also, but there is no Upgrade from XP to Win7. Windows 7 has to be a full disk and clean load. You can only upgrade from Vista, which makes me think maybe there is something wrong with the Win7 you are using (pirated fake software, bad disk).
Looks like your Hardware should be able to handle it. Also it sounds like it could be your security software causing the problem. With Win 7 I know I had to update to a more recent version of my Internet Security Suite (Kaspersky). I would start by removing the CA security software and seeing if CoH runs ok, since you said it seemed to before that was installed.
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FYI about using an Upgrade Win 7 version with XP:
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Windows/Mic...670729/?kc=rss
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Are you going to post this FUD everywhere?|
Originally Posted by DJ_Shecky
FYI about using an Upgrade Win 7 version with XP:
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Windows/Mic...670729/?kc=rss |
From your own article:
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| Microsoft, of course, would like the community to follow its EULA (End User License Agreement), which stipulates that in order to upgrade a user must already have a "qualifying full license" attached to a previous version of Windows. |
If you don't know what FUD means, that sounds more belligerent than it was meant to sound.
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FUD. Just means "dooooooooooooom!" with fewer O's.
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hmm... This is either misleading or wrong - it's not phrased clearly enough to be sure which. When you say "there is no Upgrade from XP to Win7", do you mean:|
Originally Posted by DJ_Shecky
Well, I said this in the other thread also, but there is no Upgrade from XP to Win7. Windows 7 has to be a full disk and clean load. You can only upgrade from Vista, which makes me think maybe there is something wrong with the Win7 you are using (pirated fake software, bad disk).
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1) It's technically not an upgrade because you will have to reinstall all programs since Win7 overwrites the existing OS completely.
This is accurate and correct.
2) There is no legal/license method to upgrade from XP to Win7.
Completely false. Microsoft includes instructions for the upgrade from XP to Win7 right in the Win7 Upgrade version packaging. You do NOT have to have the Win7 full version to go from XP to Win7.
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