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W7 and TCOS

spyhunter107spyhunter107 Member Posts: 104
in The Chronicles of Spellborn

Anyone has been having problems playing TCOS on windows 7?

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  • JeroKaneJeroKane Member EpicPosts: 7,098
    Originally posted by spyhunter107


    Anyone has been having problems playing TCOS on windows 7?

    GameGuard isn't working under Windows 7 yet.

  • WraithoneWraithone Member RarePosts: 3,806

    People using Windows7 are out of luck. Windows7 treats Gameguard as a security risk(as well it should).  Gameguard is required to run the spellborn. Why Aclaim picked such a poorly written, half baked security app remains to be seen.

    There are MANY other legitimate options for game security.

     

    From the Gameguard wiki

     

    Windows 7

    Due to GameGuards nature of hooking into core system DLLS, windows 7 does not allow for this type of execution. and games running GameGuard will display the splash screen and then crash with an error of error:0

    Currently there are no known workarounds although some games such as Rappelz have created patches to remove GameGuard from the game.

    GameGuard has stated that due to windows 7's beta status a patch is not yet in the making however once windows 7 has been released for sale a patch will ship.

    "If you can't kill it, don't make it mad."
  • droppdropp Member UncommonPosts: 93

    i've read that the new version of gameguard does support windows 7, but TCOS uses an older version so it doesn't. until they update the gameguard version, playing on windows 7 isn't possible.

  • PoPfyrenPoPfyren Member Posts: 19

    if the latest version of gamegaurd from March 23, 2009 works, how long untill we can expect the chronicle s of spellborn to fix this?

  • Fa+eFa+e Vanguard CorrespondentMember Posts: 190

    I don't know what's going on with my client, but I swear every single day I have to to "check files" before I can start the game, and if I alt-tab, I am crashing.  Sometimes when I just try to exit out of the game it crashes.  None of this is as bad as not being able to play, but I do feel your pain...

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  • GamerAeonGamerAeon Member Posts: 567

    GameGuard for Win7 - Check

    TCoS for Win7 - Check

    GameGuard & TCoS Updating Compatiblity for Win7 - Ehhh, not yet.

    #3 is where the problem is

    Both GG and TCoS WILL function under Win7

    However it's the Update processes for both that aren't currently functioning under Win7

    and no it's not GG's Fault on that one it'll happen soon as the Devs for TCoS figure out how to get it to communicate with Win7

  • WraithoneWraithone Member RarePosts: 3,806
    Originally posted by GamerAeon


    GameGuard for Win7 - Check
    TCoS for Win7 - Check
    GameGuard & TCoS Updating Compatiblity for Win7 - Ehhh, not yet.
    #3 is where the problem is
    Both GG and TCoS WILL function under Win7
    However it's the Update processes for both that aren't currently functioning under Win7
    and no it's not GG's Fault on that one it'll happen soon as the Devs for TCoS figure out how to get it to communicate with Win7

     

    I suspect its inherent permissions. These applications are difficult enough to debug without adding in an inherently insecure app like gameguard.  There are any number of better ways of dealing with legimate game security concerns.

    "If you can't kill it, don't make it mad."
  • PoPfyrenPoPfyren Member Posts: 19

    So what we are waiting for is that the dev. of spellborn pull them self together and fix it as the possabilities for doing it is there

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