game crashing/win 7 fix

[SILENTDEATH]

so i have just found out that NMS is no longer supporting WIN 7 and now crashes when i tried to play.is there a fix out there that will allow me to play it or am i going to have to fork out the $$$ and upgrade to WIN 10

[SILENTDEATH]

Publicado originalmente por GoldenOuroboros:

Publicado originalmente por SILENTDEATH:

have no idea what a saber1 is. but yeah as it stand's i'll only have to upgrade my cpu,RAM and possibly motherboard as well and a hard copy of Win10 or 11. and how do i find out my all of my cpu spec's i'v never had to look for that info before so would be handy to know how to find it. cheers

Saber1 is a user, his comment is above.

How to check? Search can be your friend :steamsunny:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/determine-whether-your-computer-is-running-a-32-bit-version-or-64-bit-version-of-the-windows-operating-system-aac162a1-0cb3-46f2-888f-2f22897396ce

If you open run, then type dxdiag, that will bring up a lot of your specs

ok so i did that then had to google my cpu and if i'm reading it right it turns out i have a 64-bit cpu but just in case here is my cpu info intel core i7-3770k and this is what i found on the intel site.

Advanced Technologies
Intel® Turbo Boost Technology ‡ 2.0
Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology ‡ Yes
Intel® Transactional Synchronization Extensions No
Intel® 64 ‡ Yes
Instruction Set 64-bit
Instruction Set Extensions Intel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX
Idle States Yes
Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology Yes
Thermal Monitoring Technologies Yes
Intel® Identity Protection Technology ‡ Yes


CPU Specifications
Total Cores 4
Total Threads 8
Max Turbo Frequency 3.90 GHz
Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 Frequency‡ 3.90 GHz
Processor Base Frequency 3.50 GHz
Cache 8 MB Intel® Smart Cache
Bus Speed 5 GT/s
TDP 77 W......

so if i have read this right i would only need to upgrade motherboad ( currently running a Asrock Z77 Extreame 6 ) and ram to 64-bit specs.and prob 1TB SSD to put win10/11 on.

[magelord01]

Publicado originalmente por SkiRich:

Publicado originalmente por SILENTDEATH:

nope didn't work popped up with an error. it says windows10upgrade9252.exe is not a valid Win32 application

You really should not do an in place Win7 to Win10 upgrade. Too much legacy software and legacy binaries carry over and cause lots of issues.
A clean Win10 install is optimal.
That said, if you are still running Win7, you probably have a potatoe for a PC.
Its been 13 years since that O/S came out. Time to treat yourself to a new state of the art PC.

I updated from Win7 to Win10 on January 1 of this year; and it's been working out for me QUITE well, actually. Then again, that's probably because my PC was considered "high-powered" back in 2012. It's a Dell XPS 8500. Now, if I had bought what was then the latest Dell Inspiron model, that would be a different story: Inspirons from 2012 WOULD be potato PC's today!

[Nightwalker]

Publicado originalmente por SILENTDEATH:

so i have just found out that NMS is no longer supporting WIN 7 and now crashes when i tried to play.is there a fix out there that will allow me to play it or am i going to have to fork out the $$$ and upgrade to WIN 10

You can run this game in Linux just fine BTW. Linux has been free for quite some time. Defrag your Windows 7 drive, then install ubuntu. Ubuntu has a tool that will resize your windows partition to make room to install Linux. I strongly recommend this option. You can also install a second drive in your PC just for Linux.

Works best if you use the native nVidia drivers (which you can install in Ubuntu). After a kernel update though, you'll have to reboot your system for the new drivers to load. This is one of the few times Linux requires a system restart after an update.

Windows 7 isn't supported anymore by anyone, and doesn't get security updates. Personally, I avoid using Windows now whenever possible. Some Windows games even work better in Linux than Windows (when using Proton under Steam). Ideally they would release a native Linux binary, but it works pretty well as is with Proton.

[CushyCrux]

After testing again with win 7 64, the game crashes after a few seconds. But this is the only game that crashes for me. So it seems to be a bug of the game for me that newer OSs can handle better.

For security don't forgett that abbandon old Windows 7 is not getting attacked any more so much. Windows 10 on the other hand is not only ugly af, but also a huge mess. For every single task i need the double amount of clicks to get somewhere. The menu is a joke, - the "news" integration is mad, and the worst. Win 7 eats up 220mb of VRAM not 2.5GB like Windows 11.

I am pretty sure Windows will be a close OS in the future like MAC OS. To prevent this and stay free i would higly recommend to install Linux. There is so much freedom in that os, it's insane. I mean, Steam OS is linux and things go pretty well with games currently and in the future.

Hugs

[Renegadeimp]

Publicado originalmente por CushyCrux:

After testing again with win 7 64, the game crashes after a few seconds. But this is the only game that crashes for me. So it seems to be a bug of the game for me that newer OSs can handle better.

For security don't forgett that abbandon old Windows 7 is not getting attacked any more so much. Windows 10 on the other hand is not only ugly af, but also a huge mess. For every single task i need the double amount of clicks to get somewhere. The menu is a joke, - the "news" integration is mad, and the worst. Win 7 eats up 220mb of VRAM not 2.5GB like Windows 11.

I am pretty sure Windows will be a close OS in the future like MAC OS. To prevent this and stay free i would higly recommend to install Linux. There is so much freedom in that os, it's insane. I mean, Steam OS is linux and things go pretty well with games currently and in the future.

Hugs

Just install classic shell like everyone else does.

Hugs.

[Groovaholic]

Ok I think I know why the upgrade didn't work, as far as i can tell you can't just do a upgrade from Win 7 32-bit to Win 10 64-bit you will have to do a clean install.

If your not sure how have a look at this https://www.windowscentral.com/how-do-clean-installation-windows-10

Your motherboard is fine that doesn't make any difference its the CPU and in fact upgrading to 64-bit will give you more access to more then 4 GB under windows.

AND dont forget to make a back up of all your personal items before you do anything as I not going to be held responsible for any thing that you have deleted :-)

[Groovaholic]

The only thing that I don't think your M/B will allow and that is to install Windows 11 unless there is a bios update for your M/B so for now just stick with win 10 and you can check from that if you can install win 11.

[SILENTDEATH]

Publicado originalmente por Groovaholic:

Ok I think I know why the upgrade didn't work, as far as i can tell you can't just do a upgrade from Win 7 32-bit to Win 10 64-bit you will have to do a clean install.

If your not sure how have a look at this https://www.windowscentral.com/how-do-clean-installation-windows-10

Your motherboard is fine that doesn't make any difference its the CPU and in fact upgrading to 64-bit will give you more access to more then 4 GB under windows.

AND dont forget to make a back up of all your personal items before you do anything as I not going to be held responsible for any thing that you have deleted :-)

i'm running win7 pro 64-bit. and i have just found out today/yesterday that my cpu is 64-bit.i'm just going to upgrade to win11 64-bit and upgrade the RAM