Windows 7 : Early Testing
by Jeremy Easoz · 11/02/2008 (5:00 pm) · 5 comments
I had started to do posts in each of the different engine forums but I deceided to move them to my blog
and keep them contained all in one place. I own pretty much all torque products so I figured id do some testing.
Torque Game Builder 1.7.4
-D3D Mode Doesn't Work. Never worked under Vista for me either.
If you have Aero them on and preview thumbnails. You can hold the mouse
over the game window in the taskbar and the preview will show what d3d is actually
rendering but clicking on it doesn't draw a window frame or anything.
-Console Half Works. During Initial load, splash screens and menus the console will load.
When you load a level, the console will no longer drop.
Torque Game Engine Advanced 1.7.1
Everything works with my initial tests.
Torque X Tests and Tools coming as soon as Garage Games drops new builds
that work with visual studio 2008 and the latest XNA Game Studio.
Torque Constructor
-This never worked right for me in Vista, I had to turn composition off, so I suspect the same.
Will find out soon.
Show Tool Pro
-Strangely this program hasn't been updated in forever, but, it worked in vista just fine and constructor didn't.
Will test this out soon too.
Torsion
Will test soon.
TGE
-I really don't see this being a relavent product considering TGEA now has a fixed function renderer.
No testing will be done.
This will be my development operating system from here on out.
So if anyone needs something tested or GarageGames would allow me to test new stuff for them.
Let me know :)
and keep them contained all in one place. I own pretty much all torque products so I figured id do some testing.
Torque Game Builder 1.7.4
-D3D Mode Doesn't Work. Never worked under Vista for me either.
If you have Aero them on and preview thumbnails. You can hold the mouse
over the game window in the taskbar and the preview will show what d3d is actually
rendering but clicking on it doesn't draw a window frame or anything.
-Console Half Works. During Initial load, splash screens and menus the console will load.
When you load a level, the console will no longer drop.
Torque Game Engine Advanced 1.7.1
Everything works with my initial tests.
Torque X Tests and Tools coming as soon as Garage Games drops new builds
that work with visual studio 2008 and the latest XNA Game Studio.
Torque Constructor
-This never worked right for me in Vista, I had to turn composition off, so I suspect the same.
Will find out soon.
Show Tool Pro
-Strangely this program hasn't been updated in forever, but, it worked in vista just fine and constructor didn't.
Will test this out soon too.
Torsion
Will test soon.
TGE
-I really don't see this being a relavent product considering TGEA now has a fixed function renderer.
No testing will be done.
This will be my development operating system from here on out.
So if anyone needs something tested or GarageGames would allow me to test new stuff for them.
Let me know :)
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#2
D3D Mode Works Fine (After a few flashing screens)
Console does not drop down while the level is loaded,
only on splash screens and menus.
11/03/2008 (12:17 pm)
Torque Game Engine 1.4.2 Works FineD3D Mode Works Fine (After a few flashing screens)
Console does not drop down while the level is loaded,
only on splash screens and menus.
#3
Here is my guess on a version:
Windows 7 Multi-Touch @ $499.us
11/03/2008 (6:09 pm)
..any pricing yet on Windows 7 ?Here is my guess on a version:
Windows 7 Multi-Touch @ $499.us
#4
11/04/2008 (10:06 am)
Here Constructor work beautifully on Vista with Aero on... 
#5
TGEA runs great... TGE flickers and likes to crash :p
01/03/2009 (8:29 pm)
A bit late but... Windows 7 testing?TGEA runs great... TGE flickers and likes to crash :p
Torque Owner Jason Gossiaux
Indie Dev
I would find a quick test very useful if you have the time. Thanks for looking into it!