Windows 7 problems/solutions please post them here

Post by **lightsbr21** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 12:06 am

Nvidia GeForce GTX460 is my video card. I'm not sure if it uses 10 or 9, where would I find that?

Post by **thunderchero** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 12:26 am

lightsbr21 wrote:Nvidia GeForce GTX460 is my video card. I'm not sure if it uses 10 or 9, where would I find that?

sounds like same problem others have had with GTX470, video card driver.

if you have not already updated your video card driver that would be the first thing to try. You might need to use an older driver if updated one does not work.

billy66bare wrote:wOOt!!! The 260 WHQL drivers fixed it, the beta wouldn't, but the certified ones did!
Thanks for trying, Peter1981 and

he had this problem on GTX470

thunderchero

Post by **HsojVvad** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 7:46 am

The only other thing I can think of is because I was told this and it helped me. I had lots of crashing problems, and this helped a bit.

In your stbof.ini file, make sure 3D=SOFTWARE and then see what happens.

If that doesn't work, then I am sorry I can't help no further.

How about getting a cheaper video card, or getting a cheap old computer just to run BotF? Just an idea there.

Post by **lightsbr21** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 11:18 pm

The 260 WHQL driver did it for me too. I lose a couple of inches on each side of the screen, but its stable and and runs a lot smoother than the original, even.

Thanks for the help you guys!

Post by **Borg** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 3:09 pm

Hi there is been a long time that I have poste here becouse my PC die on me last year and I just got my new pc 2 mouths a go, and I am hope BOTF will work on windows 7 64 bit system. But from what I have ready read so far its hope less becosue my is a very high spec pc.

I have 2 Radeon video cards 6970 in crossfire mode, but the thin I cant get is I have a very old game called Earth 2150 a lot older than BOTF it was made in windows 95 days but yet it work fine and BOTF dose not.

Post by **thunderchero** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 3:22 pm

Welcome back Borg,

so far I think everyone has gotten it to work on windows 7 64.

what problems are you having? and what have you tried?

thunderchero

Post by **Borg** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 4:10 pm

Well so far I have got it to work but I need to play on the game it self yet, to see what works and where dose it blow up on me, so I will have to get back to you my good man.

Post by **Borg** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 5:03 pm

Hi thunderchero long time no see I just did a quick test I would recament you do the same way has a 32 bit system

Run in 256 colors
Run in 640x480 screen reslution
Disable visual themes
Disable desktop composition
Disable display scaling on high DPI

and run the game in XP service pack 3

Also PLZ PLZ PLZ!!! if you have two video cards in crossfire mode Disable crossfire mode when you want to play on BOTF.
I have not try a full game yet but so far so good I can click on turns and thats working fine building fine but I still need to try it in combat.

Post by **Borg** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 10:20 am

Hi again thunderchero I can get BOTF to work but aftder 3 turns it stops work resion is unknow, so has it stands now I can play on BOTF no more.
So I am very sorry about that.

Post by **Sailor-Moon** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 12:35 pm

Hi,
I've been playing BOTF for years.
Today I have installed it on my new machine (specs after post)

The game runs in compatability mode for XP SP2 but crashes with a sound loop about 45 seconds into playing.

I have updated using the BOTF 102 patch which I use on all my other machines.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance

Sailor-Moon

Machine Spec

AMD 1090T Overclocked to 3.7 Ghz
Asus Crosshair IV formula Motherboard
Crossaire Dominator GT 8 Gig 2000 Mhz (OC) CMT4GX3M2A000C8
AMD 6950 HD Graphics card
OCZ Vertex 2 SSD

Post by **thunderchero** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 12:39 pm

welcome Sailor-Moon,

post moved to general chat

if you have not already checked this thread, or you could try turning off sound in stbof.ini to see if that stops crashes.

viewtopic.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1289

thunderchero

Post by **hjuchum** » Tue Jun 14, 2011 4:12 pm

I have experienced the same symptoms. Turning off the audio does work but it is a kind of boring not being able to listen to the audio ;-)

Post by **hjuchum** » Tue Jun 14, 2011 4:42 pm

Thanks. Your comments helped to also fix my problems on Windows 7 64 bit.

Post by **HsojVvad** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:45 am

Borg wrote:Hi again thunderchero I can get BOTF to work but aftder 3 turns it stops work resion is unknow, so has it stands now I can play on BOTF no more.
So I am very sorry about that.

There is a log or something that when you crash it tells why. I forget where to find it. Sorry.

What do you have your 3D set to in the .ini file? I forget what is should be set to at the moment, it might help you from your crashes. When I had it installed it helped me.

Post by **Tethys** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 11:26 am

crash.log is located in the installed directory c:\botf or c:\botf\(mod name) also the stbof.ini files are located in the same place. Stbof.ini opens with notepad and can be edited. See if 3D=SOFTWARE works for you.