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Okay, I finally got Win XP Pro now. But that's not all: I'm gonna do a complete system cleanup, means formatting, change partitions, change file system to NTFS and install Win XP.
What I wanted to say is that I probably won't be online for some days. So, no need to worry (or at least I hope so...) :grin:
- Alhexx
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Hm... have I said I won't be online? Heh, just gotta go and d/l some drivers for my components... :grin:
BTW: I currently AM running on Win XP - looks fine...
- Alhexx
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Heh. Think I need to upgrade, but I'll probably go up to Win2K rather than XP ... I can foresee major driver problems ahead if I went to XP.
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Message!
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My Graphics Card (Viper II) was not supported by Windows XP so I installed Windows 98 back on the computer so I could duel boot for my games and watching DVD's etc... and for everything else I use Windows XP.
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2k sucks. i had beta 3 for like a year.
[edited] 249 2001-11-21 22:47
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Jedimark-man, someone else that has a viper II card! Nice to know beforehand that XP chokes on it...
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i heard that xp isnt compatible with *something*XP based on an nVidia chipset....
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I run Win2k Pro (Actual CD Edition!) and i love it. The stability of it is beyond compare. I hated XP for 1 major reason: Activation. Otherwise it was simply an updated Win2k.
Sephiroth 3D
"I don't understand..." "You don't have to understand." - Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
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Try to run this little proggy on your stable systems:
int main()
{
printf("hung upttbbbbbb");
printf("hung upttbbbbbb");
}
:lol:
But you probably already knew about that
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As for me: I've chosen it b'cause of the stability. Well, my Win98 system liked to crash a feqw times per day, WinXP runs perfect 'till now.
BTW: Seph 3D: LightWave worx. So be happy to see an updatd Version of the LWO Converter/Exporter next Ultima version...
Oh, I've gotta d/l OpenGL drivers ... hehe, Ultima didn't want to work... b'cause it couldn't load the OpenGL.dll ...
As for the Activation: My Win XP Version doesn't want any activation or at least it doesn't tell me... and I can't remember cracking it...
- Alhexx
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This one flies out to all ICQ Users:
I forgot to backup my contact list, so I got to get authorized by all again... so don't wonder when I try to get auth from you again...
- Alhexx
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hmmm maybe i should start using icq again.....
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There's something I forgot to mention:
I found that bug in my .p-to-lwo converter. I've uploaded a new version onto my site...
- Alhexx
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Good! :grin: I was hoping there would be an update to your LWO converter soon. I can't wait until we can go from either to the other, and export animations and everything! I already have 2 characters I'm going to build an put into the remake... (And they're easter eggs!)
Sephiroth 3D
"I don't understand..." "You don't have to understand." - Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
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cool.
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Alhexx: Got the update, will check out later.
Sephiroth 3D
"I don't understand..." "You don't have to understand." - Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
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ppl, what are you doing with your systems ? I have oold win95, it is installed for about 1/2 year or more, im still gaming, programming, experimenting on it, and it won't crash more than once per 2 weeks.
Im probably lucky lol
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Well, if it worx, then everything's just fine. I was workin on Win95 as long as I could. But one day I bought an USB Joystick (Saitek ST200) and I had to install Win98 to make my system recognize it.
A few months ago my system got crazy and started to hang up and crash - well now all's fixed and I'm lucky :grin:
- Alhexx
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my win98 system crashes about once a month. I use it for gaming, programming, and running my server. Ill tell you the URL of my website once its done =)
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Arrrrgh damn Xp - Tony Hawks Pro Skateboarding 2 isnt working
anyone know of a patch anywhere?
Thanks
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Mirex: What was that proggie supposed to do? Because it just printed out txt and sat there doing nothing...
EDIT: lol, ran it again and this time let it sit there for 30 secs. Never mind.
[edited] 9 2001-11-24 08:50
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Ant: Well, I don't know a patch, but there's something your problem reminds me of:
NFS3 and NFS4 aren't workin' on WinXP ... :mad:
- Alhexx
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Ant.... have you tried running the game using Compatibility mode? That usually worked for me.
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i reinstalled it and so far its working fine, ta anyway
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I have the Corporate Windows XP install CD (doesn't require activation) that I got through where I work (anyone want a copy? heh).
Tried to install it, it didn't like my OLD vid card or Wireless Network card. But its worked perfectly on every other computer I've tried it on (friends, etc.). The only problem is drivers for old devices... but one of my friends got his old SCSI Scanner to work by reinstalling a Win9x driver, so, wierd.
Anyway, does anyone know if FF7 works in Windows XP? I heard it had compatibility problems with Win 2000 and I haven't tested it in XP yet.
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FF7 runs ok on some systems under XP, and it crashes on others. It always crashes, no matter what, on the Chocobo races, though. You'll probably want to put Win98 on some small, out of the way partition to play through the races. (Either that or use some one elses comp. I think I'm gonna make both my partitions NTFS when I get my new hard drive, and just play through the Chocobo races on my brothers comp. He has Win95 OSR2.)
As far as that WinXP Corporate . . . is that WinXP professional, or is that some special version of WinXP that you have to have a site lisence for?
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That's a VERY good question about XP. I'd like to know the answer to that too.
Sephiroth 3D
"I don't understand..." "You don't have to understand." - Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Sephiroth 3D.com (http://www.sephiroth3d.com)
[email protected]
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I think corportate is the one meant for networks, therefore no activation required :wink:
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Ive got it. Its Professional however NO ACTIVATION required, still needs a licence key as per usual, its sweet, a big fat one fingered salute to Micro$oft.!!!
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So for WinXP-Pro, all you need is the serial number that comes with the CD?
Sweet... I 'm gonna get that!
Sephiroth 3D
"I don't understand..." "You don't have to understand." - Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Sephiroth 3D.com (http://www.sephiroth3d.com)
[email protected]
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That's what I've just been saying - no activation. I were wondering, but there isn't !! Hehe, one good thing my Micro$oft...
- Alhexx
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I have the home edition with a crack so later I'm going to equaip all the pc's on my network with it. You'd think that Microsoft would make it harder to crack the activation than that though.
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Heh heh, my mate cracked Windows XP and he had been running it for about a month and then I think what must have happened is that when he was connected to the Interent Microsoft detected that his copy was cracked and when he rebooted his machine XP told him to contact Windows customer services or somet.... which he didnt do... so he's back to Windows 98 now!
Im reluctant to lend out my XP CD if indeed Microsoft can detect these things.
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Heh, there was a guy at the car-boot sale I work at this week who was selling loads of stuff real cheap. I got a brand new boxed Microsoft VC++ Prof. Edition from him (Don't ask why) for £10! He also had WinXP for £20 but I think it was copied and IIRC WinXP recomends at least 128MB to run. :mad:
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My computing teacher gave me a copy of Visual C++... heh heh!
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The Windows XP Corporate I have is just Windows XP Professional (Build 2600... I think that's the newest) meant for businesses or comp building places and does NOT require activation. I guess to legally use it, you need a site licence. But all you need for it to work is a valid CD key (25 digit number thing all Windows versions have).
Heh.
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Oh yeah... about FF7 in Windows XP:
I read somewhere that you can tell XP whether to "emulate" a 9x, NT, or 2000 enviornment (I think 2000 was default) and you can custom this for different prorgams. This was from someone's review of the XP beta.
Can anyone confirm or deny this, and if it is true, has anyone tried FF7 in 9x mode?
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You can use that compatibility mode with the final build of XP. As to wether or not it makes FF7 work? I seem to remember getting it working before I did a clean reformat and install, but I can't be certain if it did or not. I'll get back to you about that in a few.
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hey, does xp run on msdos, and is there a prompt? if so, ill seriously look into getting it, otherwise ill stick with 98 for my server.
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Darkness: XP is like Win2000. Runs on NT format, no dos (other than the command prompt) which means most dos games won't work on it.
Sephiroth 3D
"I don't understand..." "You don't have to understand." - Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Sephiroth 3D.com (http://www.sephiroth3d.com)
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Which is why you should get System Commander or something and set up a dual boot with Win98 and WinXP (and maybe other stuff too... Linux? etc).
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damn that nt-bin file system crap. i want my dos prompt. apache is so much better than IIS server.
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I was actually thinking of a mac with OSX for a while becuase of it's *NIX base.
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Heh... that reminds me, I gotta format the hard drive of the Mac I got at a yard sale and install OS 7.5.3 on it. (It's an upgrade believe it or not! Damn Quadra 610 runnning an Intel 486SX 25kHz chip...)
Sephiroth 3D
"I don't understand..." "You don't have to understand." - Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Sephiroth 3D.com (http://www.sephiroth3d.com)
[email protected]
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Actually Most ms-dos games I've tried in XP run great. XP appearently has ms-dos cd and sound driver (sb) emulation. I ran into no probs running any games.
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ive actually heard that many dos-based games dont run in XP.
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Yeah I've had no problems with DOS games under Windows XP. :smile:
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ok, then maybe i will get XP
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I actually heard that a lot of DOS programs work in XP... just with no sound I guess. There's a SoundBlaster emulator for NT/2000, I wonder if it would work in XP?
Still I think I'll keep 98 around so I can boot into it or a DOS prompt when I need to do that kind of stuff.
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how about dual booting? windows xp and linux? would it work?
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::Whoa::
You are REALLY working on that Post Count there Darkness... So, how's everybody doing?
"How much does XP differs from ME actually?"
"A WHOLE LOT~~"
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Duel Booting is okay in Windows XP... i have Windows 98 on a separate partition so I can play games 'cause my graphics card is not supported by XP.
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heh... I did that back when I used my Voodoo2. It wasn't supported by W2k, so I used Win98 as my main OS, and kept W2k on so I could try and learn Maya. (Still need to do that...) But when I got my current Video card, I pretty much dumped Win98 and went with 2000 all the way. Now I'm almost regretting it, because I can't play my old DOS games anymore, such as Wing Commander Privateer, Warcraft 2, and my Fav game, FF7.
Half-Life/Counter-Strike has just been F*cked up too much for me to even TRY playing it anymore. I'm just gonna remove it from my system soon.
Sephiroth 3D
"I don't understand..." "You don't have to understand." - Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Sephiroth 3D.com (http://www.sephiroth3d.com)
[email protected]
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Why can't you play Final Fantasy 7 Sephiropth 3D?
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seph3d: and HOW did you get maya? :grin:
straywings: i haven't really been working on it. my posting average has been staying at about 5 posts a day, i may have been posting more recently, but thats because theres more active topics then there have been in quite a while.
[edited] 249 2001-11-29 23:53
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*Only* five posts a day??!
That's well above my average, and I'm the top poster on the board...all meaningfull, life-inspiring posts of course :laugh:
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Hmm... I probably make at least 5 posts a day.
I was away from the board for a while though (several months) but I came back when I got the e-mails (17 of the same one!!!) about it moving. Dunno why I left... I love this board. :razz:
EDIT: Jedimark... FF7 doesn't work in Windows 2000. Which reminds me... has anyone tried FF7 in Windows XP with the simulation mode set to Windows 9x? Can someone say that they did and couldn't get it to work?
[edited] 44 2001-11-30 02:35
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hehe make that 6. its been increasing over the last few days. maybe i should slow down....
ive been coming to the board more often (2-3 times a day)
fice, if you registered when i did, your post/day would probably be about the same :grin:
[edited] 249 2001-11-30 02:45
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Aaron, I can play FF7 on Windows XP without Compatabilty Mode turned on, although I prefer to run it in Windows 98 where I have my grapics card supported.
I just got FF7 for the PC actually and I have a few questions:
1. Is it just my computer / my graphics card but a lot of the textures are bright green spoiling the game. (I can get a screen shot if ya want)
2. Bloody hell... how fast does the bike chase go compared to the PSX version!! Is there a way of slowing this down?
3. Are there any patches for FF7?
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There is a patch to run it on Nvidia cards, you should get that since most don't support 8bit palletted textures even though its now enabled in the drivers.
I think the problem with the bike chase is that your pc is too fast for the game. When I had a k6-3 400 with voodoo 2's it ran and the proper speed but now it is way to fast.
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Oh my god, what have I done?
This is turnin' into a 3-pages-topic ... :grin:
- Alhexx
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I don't have an NVIDIA card though.... can I still use the patch then? And will that get rid of the awfull Bright Green blobs everywhere?
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im running on a celeron 400, and its normal. you need a turbo button :grin:
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well you shouldn't if it isnt an NVIDIA card. as for the bike chase there was a program that slowed your processor down so the games slowed down to the right speed but I cannot remember what it was called.
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You most definitely can apply the "NVidia" patches whatever card you have.
It should really be called a "remove paletted textures" patch because that's what it does - removes the need for paletted textures. The patch lets me use my Radeon with FF7 fine (since it doesn't support paletted textures either).
If you have the 1.02 patch to FF7 it also lets you apply my patches like 32-bit colour etc, though that's not as big an issue :wink: The 1.01 and 1.02 updates do run fine on ANY card though, not just NVidia cards.
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thanks fice, ive been wondering about that for quite some time.
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Do you have a link fice? There are so many wierd and wonderfull patches out there for FF7 im not sure which one you are talking about!
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Afraid not ... they're hard to find now, IIRC Eidos doesn't have them on it's FTP anymore.
v1.01 is the Riva TNT patch.
v1.02 is the patch that support both the TNT and another NVidia card (can't remember which ... GF1? not sure)
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Hah! I have both the Riva128 and the TNT version of the patch! But I've noticed that there isn't really a difference using an NVida card. I suppose I could email them to Fice so he could put them on his sever...
Oh, and I get funny purple and green lines in FF7 when I use them, but if you turn off Antialiasing, they go away.
Sephiroth 3D
"I don't understand..." "You don't have to understand." - Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Sephiroth 3D.com (http://www.sephiroth3d.com)
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hehe i cant even figure out how to turn ON anti aliasing on my voodoo3
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Okay.... and erm.... how do I turn of "Antialiasing" then?
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Here's a screenshot by the way:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/rylander/ugly_ff7.jpg
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God ! That sucks, I wouldnt be able to play at all like that.
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That patch didn't sort it out :sad:
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I'm running WinXP Pro Corperate. It is the same as EVERY other version of XP Pro out there except you use a "Volume Licence Key". Therefore it does not need to be activated. (Can you imaging having to activate every machine in a 2000 machine company???). My machine is 4 years old and I have not had any problems with hardware (of course I have upgraded here and there).
It is by far the best Windows I have ever used and it is the MOST stable WINDOWS out there................... however that said if you want a really stable system try running Linux (kernal 2.4.x) and then run all your Windows program in WINE or VMWARE.
Linux rocks
:grin:
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jedimark...... must have something to do with the foreground...
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Darkness: to your post on previous page, about dual booting: you can make dual boot to any system, when you have some boot manager, like OSL2000. It will give you choice what partition do you want to boot.
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couldn't you do it with boot discs instead?
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Boot disks?
Well I guess you could find a boot disk that would let you choose which partition to boot off of... but that's just more trouble.
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no... like LILO for linux or the BeOS boot discs. stuff like that
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ok this is going to sound kind of lame but hows XP working out for you. i'm getting it for christmas and i'm not sure if i should get XP or go to ME/98. any suggestions?
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XP Rules!! I would reccomend it over Windows 98/ME anyway.
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Don't even put a slash between 98 and ME....ME is an OS to stay away from....at all costs.
From what I can tell, Get XP if you never plan on looking back. Get 98SE if you plan on popping in those 2 year old and older programs.
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or: dual boot XP and 98SE on the same system.
hehe thats what im doing:
XP: 40 GB Partition
98: 25 GB Partition
Redhat: 25 GB Partition
BeOS: 10 GB Partition
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so long as it backward compatible i'm all for XP i just don't like the search thing of the menu. some dog asks you what kind of seqarch you want to perform......
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hehe cant run ff7 on it....
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i could setup that linux machine with a bigger HD(8gd or so). and dual boot 98. might hsve to deal with the matrix lines but it would work.
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:???: :???: :???: :???: matrix lines?
Wake up, neo =)
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the green and pink likes that appear. i thought thoues were called 'matrix lines'. i wish i was neo :sad: