TGE not working with Windows 7 64bit home
by Chris Smith · in Torque Game Engine · 11/24/2009 (10:04 pm) · 9 replies
I am a student doing classes online and recently started a class involving TGE. I decided to upgrade from Vista 64 to Win 7 64. But to my surprise when I open the demo it plays the sound effects in the background and has a black screen within the window. I can move the mouse around and hear the menus playing the soundeffects as well. I am stumped as to what is causing this, let alone how to fix this so I can continue with my classes. If anyone has had this issue or knows how to resolve please help. Thanks
#2
11/24/2009 (11:01 pm)
Hmm. I'm running TGE on Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit with no problems. Maybe a video card driver issue? Your drivers might need to be updated for Win7.
#3
11/24/2009 (11:07 pm)
Funny you mention the video driver. I have been working with one of garage games community managers and he pointed that out to me. I followed the link that he gave me and just updated it tonight. Still same issue. I even have a purchased version of TGE and it does the same. I know of a few people who are running 7 and either have a different issue or no issues at all. I tried to run it in the compatbility mode and no dice. It says failed to open "main.cs", then failed to intialize game shutting down. 
#4
11/24/2009 (11:34 pm)
Is main.cs there in the directory with exe?
#5
11/24/2009 (11:35 pm)
yep.. 
#6
02/01/2010 (3:54 pm)
Check your console log, any OpenGL errors?
#7
02/27/2010 (11:57 am)
none.. I still have not resolved the issue and this is a required class for me to finish to graduate.. I am really at a loss. 
#8
I googled the dll, found it, downloaded and copy into the windows directory, rebooted, restarted tge and everything was fine.
So if you updated your graphic drivers, sound drivers and got the newest DirectX (I used the directX 9 c february 2010 version) but still have the same issues you might need this dll aswell or something similar.
However, in my case it didn't worked at all before I got this dll so in your case it seems to be something else.
Due to this I would recommend the steps above I mentioned.
You could also reduce the resolution of your desktop and run tge afterwards or if you make it that far to start a new game in tge, try to run in fullscreen and window to see if any differences occur.
Additionaly you could try different resolutions in tge to see if it works in any other resolution or if it doesn't work at all.
Good luck! :)
03/16/2010 (6:05 am)
I installed TGE on my new system which is running with W7 64 Bit Premium and it gave me a error in the beginning about not finding a certain dll (sorry but don't remember the name anymore since its been over a month now :( ).I googled the dll, found it, downloaded and copy into the windows directory, rebooted, restarted tge and everything was fine.
So if you updated your graphic drivers, sound drivers and got the newest DirectX (I used the directX 9 c february 2010 version) but still have the same issues you might need this dll aswell or something similar.
However, in my case it didn't worked at all before I got this dll so in your case it seems to be something else.
Due to this I would recommend the steps above I mentioned.
You could also reduce the resolution of your desktop and run tge afterwards or if you make it that far to start a new game in tge, try to run in fullscreen and window to see if any differences occur.
Additionaly you could try different resolutions in tge to see if it works in any other resolution or if it doesn't work at all.
Good luck! :)
#9
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/disable-aero-on-windows-vista/
has both in there.
03/16/2010 (6:02 pm)
Try disabling Aero on win7.. You can do so by Pesonalizing the destkop settings and choosing Windows Basic or something else.http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/disable-aero-on-windows-vista/
has both in there.
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I would also like to expand on this with 64bit capability. Is T3D 64bit capable? And if not, will it be any time soon?