PoP 2008 in windows 7 | Forums

[dwheet]

Greetings all.

I purchased PoP 2008 a few years back from direct2drive which was recently purchased from gamefly.

Gamefly is saying that PoP 2008 is not compatible with windows 7 (either 32 or 64) I can't seem to get the game to run. Has anyone here gotten the game to work in windows 7 and if so was there anything you did to get it to work?

I get the PoP launcher and I passed all the requirements. When I launch the game I get a black screen and then windows 7 gives me the information "This application has stopped working.. We are checking to see if there is a solution"

[sanceman]

I have the retail version and it works without any tinkering on Win 7 64 bit.

[Pa3PyX]

If you pick to view technical info about the crash, what's the exception code that it gives you? The most common ones are:

0xC0000005 (EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION)
0xC00000FD (EXCEPTION_STACK_OVERFLOW)
The program tried to access unallocated memory. This usually means a bug in the program (the game), or a driver that it uses, or insufficient memory available (including the page file). No generic solution exists; upgrading or downgrading the drivers may or may not help.

0xC000001D (EXCEPTION_ILLEGAL_INSTRUCTION)
This is usually because your CPU does not support the instruction set required by the application. This game, I believe, requires SSE2 support from the CPU (if not SSE3) as well as multiple processors (logical or physical), which means at least Pentium 4 HT or Athlon 64 x2. So this requires a system upgrade. Running applications with higher CPU requirements on a system not meeting them is possible, but requires a lot of hassle (specifically, creating a sandbox system and virtualizing the CPU) and the performance will likely be unacceptable.

0xC0000094 (EXCEPTION_INT_DIVIDE_BY_ZERO)
This is usually due to incorrect/numerically unstable timing calculations within the game. May occur with old games run on new machines. Enabling vsync or otherwise limiting the framerate will often help.

[Major Parsnip]

I have the steam version of PoP08, and it works just fine it seems on my Win7-64 machine.

Sometimes it seems like some of the dialogue gets cut off a little at the end of sentences, but I can't tell if that's platform specific issue or not. It's been so long since I played it on PC last that I can't remember if it happened on XP.