I've recently installed a copy of Windows 7 as a dual-boot setup, on my reasonable spec PC (i7-4770k, 16gb DDR3-1866 ram, 1TB Samsung SSD, GTX-1080Ti, Oculus Rift CV1 - so its an older but fastish CPU motherboard is maxed out for ram and the graphics card is the star feature). Sadly the computer keeps faceplanting after a couple of minutes running the game in windows 7, but it can run for hours in windows 10 on the same hardware, so obviously its a software issue. Before I go bugging the lovely people at FDev's support department I was wondering if you guys in here might be able to shed any light on the matter? Any experience of irksome crashes in win 7 and any solutions? Any recommendations for "the best" version number for Nvidia drivers?
Game crashes in windows 7 - any suggestions?
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It's nearly a 10 year old os.
The rift itself has a software requirement of windows 8.1 for valid reasons, chiefly being the DirectX api needed for vr are not supported in 7.
As well as a myriad of other features.
Windows 7 is no longer supported.
Let it go.
The horse is dead, stop kicking it.
It was a lively trusty steed while it lasted. And MS is forcing me to lease this new shiny horse with weak ankles.
But even a leased horse with weak ankles are better than a dead horse.
The rift itself has a software requirement of windows 8.1 for valid reasons, chiefly being the DirectX api needed for vr are not supported in 7.
As well as a myriad of other features.
Windows 7 is no longer supported.
Let it go.
The horse is dead, stop kicking it.
It was a lively trusty steed while it lasted. And MS is forcing me to lease this new shiny horse with weak ankles.
But even a leased horse with weak ankles are better than a dead horse.
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Wow !!! WIN 7, twas a beauty
Why do you need 7 & 10 for dual boot if I may be nosey and ask ?
p.s. My spec is same as yours, except I have the 3770k(and latest OR) and with no OC I still use less than 50% in ED VR !
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Also with the "why"?
It's working on Windows 10 (which is a modern, supported OS). Compared to Windows 7 which has now been out of mainstream support since the beginning of 2015 (meaning Microsoft issue security updates only), and which will cease extended support in a little over eighteen months.
In order to find out what's wrong on the Windows 7 partition, you're going to have to spend a lot of time going through event viewer logs, performing crash dump analysis etc. And even then, assuming the faulty driver has been identified, there'll be no guarantee you'll find a fix, because the OS is effectively unsupported.
Best advice, enjoy the game in Windows 10
It's working on Windows 10 (which is a modern, supported OS). Compared to Windows 7 which has now been out of mainstream support since the beginning of 2015 (meaning Microsoft issue security updates only), and which will cease extended support in a little over eighteen months.
In order to find out what's wrong on the Windows 7 partition, you're going to have to spend a lot of time going through event viewer logs, performing crash dump analysis etc. And even then, assuming the faulty driver has been identified, there'll be no guarantee you'll find a fix, because the OS is effectively unsupported.
Best advice, enjoy the game in Windows 10
LOL
Windows 7 is a hunny of an operating system, possibly the best windows ever, but like every techy type I always ran with the newest latest and supposedly greatest os'. Recently I needed to access some files created in a graphics program that doesn't run in windows 10. While I could have ran that app in a virtual box within win10 one of my friends from elite who is a linux man but has to run windows for this game, and chose 7 for many of the reasons I still hold it in high regard, so I decided if I'm going to have to install windows 7 in a partition or a virtual box I might as well see what the heck it runs like on hardware a couple of generations beyond its supposed obsolescence point.
Performance is insane, office 2016 apps load in <1 sec, solidworks 2018 ~5secs including a couple of plugins, file explorer operation happen before I've even fully retracted the finger from the mouse button.
Windows 7 is ACE! - Y'all obviously don't know what a good thing you are shunning. i'm actually using it as my day to day OS just now, and loving every moment of it. Sure theres something I'm missing from windows 10, such as the windows hello login, loging in with my microsoft account meaning my laptop and desktop automatically synchronise my documents, pictures and desktop folders via my onedrive, the ribbon interface on file explorer. But with windows 7, in general, it is a happier computing experience. Neither elite nor oculus force the use any black magic high version number direct x functions, nowt past DX11 is called on. I'm beginning to think my issues are thermal related as with the recent heatwave its the first time all year my office has been above 12°C (as a hot-blooded alpha male I operate better in the cold).During office hours I've been running some pretty complex simulations in solidworks and that's a lot of hardware I've got confined in a small format case and watching my temps on cad im getting a bit marginal, possibly VR is just too much heat in a hot office for this small case.
Performance is insane, office 2016 apps load in <1 sec, solidworks 2018 ~5secs including a couple of plugins, file explorer operation happen before I've even fully retracted the finger from the mouse button.
Windows 7 is ACE! - Y'all obviously don't know what a good thing you are shunning. i'm actually using it as my day to day OS just now, and loving every moment of it. Sure theres something I'm missing from windows 10, such as the windows hello login, loging in with my microsoft account meaning my laptop and desktop automatically synchronise my documents, pictures and desktop folders via my onedrive, the ribbon interface on file explorer. But with windows 7, in general, it is a happier computing experience. Neither elite nor oculus force the use any black magic high version number direct x functions, nowt past DX11 is called on. I'm beginning to think my issues are thermal related as with the recent heatwave its the first time all year my office has been above 12°C (as a hot-blooded alpha male I operate better in the cold).During office hours I've been running some pretty complex simulations in solidworks and that's a lot of hardware I've got confined in a small format case and watching my temps on cad im getting a bit marginal, possibly VR is just too much heat in a hot office for this small case.
We are not ditching a great os.
Besides if win 7 is so awesome just think how amazing it would have been to try windows 2000.
Or NT 3.5.
Why not just go back to Basic ?
We simply moved on because we now need to do things it can't do.
I personally was the absolute bomb when it came to windows Xp, knew it better than my testicles.
But guess what I need more than 4gb of RAM now so practically. Even Vista was an upgrade.
Yeah I loathe 10 as much as anyone can. But I live in reality not 2011.
Besides if win 7 is so awesome just think how amazing it would have been to try windows 2000.
Or NT 3.5.
Why not just go back to Basic ?
We simply moved on because we now need to do things it can't do.
I personally was the absolute bomb when it came to windows Xp, knew it better than my testicles.
But guess what I need more than 4gb of RAM now so practically. Even Vista was an upgrade.
Yeah I loathe 10 as much as anyone can. But I live in reality not 2011.
Boot back to 10 for Elite and don’t bother the devs with this nonsense.