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Windows 8 64

Sat, 07 December 2013 13:51

Slomka

Civilian

Messages: 2
Registered: November 2013
Location: Zabrze

1 If i place this post in bad place sorry.

2 Hi This is my first post Smile

3 Plz help run Star! on windows 8 64bit I'm noob at running old games at new windows. Plz tell me how to do this step by step or give me link to good video tutorial.

4 If I make some language mistakes in this post sorry I'm not very good at englisch but I still learning.

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Re: Windows 8 64

Sat, 07 December 2013 13:54

XAPBob

Lt. Commander

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Registered: August 2012

http://starsautohost.org/sahforum2/index.php?t=msg&th=49 84&start=0&rid=1560

Might help.

I'll put a VM image out soom, it runs fine on Debian with WINE.

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Re: Windows 8 64

Sun, 08 December 2013 13:30

Slomka

Civilian

Messages: 2
Registered: November 2013
Location: Zabrze

I tried this and something bad start happening to my pc.

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Re: Windows 8 64

Sun, 08 December 2013 16:57

XAPBob

Lt. Commander

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Registered: August 2012

Specificity would be good.
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html

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Re: Windows 8 64

Sat, 14 December 2013 13:34

Coyote

Lt. Commander

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Registered: November 2002
Location: Pacific NW

If everything else fails, you can always install a lightweight linux partition and run Stars! under Wine.

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Re: Windows 8 64

Sun, 15 December 2013 18:11

LittleEddie

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Helped track down one or more Stars bugs

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Registered: February 2011
Location: Delaware

Change to Window 8 or windows 8.1 in 32-bit mode.

Stars! runs normally in it.

The first time you run it, windows will ask if your sure, click "yes" and that's it.

Quote:

Switching from 64-bit to 32-bit (or doing the reverse) requires a re-install of the OS. If you have the windows 8 install disk, it should allow you to re-install the OS as the 32-bit version using the same key.

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Re: Windows 8 64

Sat, 01 February 2014 01:35

platon79

Chief Warrant Officer 3

Messages: 185
Registered: February 2004
Location: Norway

I recommend running dosbox with windows 3.1, as This makes no big changes to your computer. Of course you have to find a win3.1 installation first, but it is possible to find on the net. And max resolution will be 1024x768.
One funny thing about this approach is that when you have everything set up you may even transfer the files to your android phone and run stars there, eg with andosbox. Very Happy

Not recommended for play though, just as proof of concept, as it will run horribly slow, even on a s4 Wink

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Re: Windows 8 64

Sat, 01 February 2014 06:20

XAPBob

Lt. Commander

Messages: 957
Registered: August 2012

Actually I run on my 2012 Nexu7 - with a physical mouse plugged in it is quite acceptable (except when you get late game, at which point turning off minefields and scanners is virtually mandated - drawing a whole map with 500 planets and teh fleets of 10 players can take 2-3 seconds, but other than that drawing speed it works fine.

Of course I prefer playing over NX using a linux server in a data centre to play - that lets me have my MM spreadsheets and starscalc etc open...

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