H3XU5.LAN - 20/21/22nd November 2009 - Uttoxeter

[Guy]

Only because you got swamped with my flying rocket troops

And I don't have to install XP JUST to run RA3!

No, just because it truely is a cack game

I havent tried Generals on 7, but it worked on my vista machine.

[Salazaar]

I've been having a lot of trouble getting Generals to run on 7, luckily I still have an XP partition as backup.

[stevie lee]

have you tried making your own options.ini file, as it says here - http://forums.hexus.net/operating-sy...zero-hour.html

[alsenior]

i installed generals from the first decade dvd on Windows 7 RC1 and it started first time without issue. that has patch version 1.04

[finlay666]

have you tried making your own options.ini file, as it says here - http://forums.hexus.net/operating-sy...zero-hour.html

That worked on 32bit but not 64bit

I'll try it when I get some time

[stevie lee]

works fine on 64bit vista, its what i'm using. but i assume your talking about win7.

just checked the games drive and i have the generals.exe and the zero hour - generals.exe set to run as administrator.
also patch 1.04

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update:

i'm now the proud owner of

grid - £7.50
orange box - £14.99
left4dead GOTY - £24.99
unreal anthology - £7.50

from GAME


there's just - supreme commander, NFS shift, L4D2 and cod4 to get. still need to find headphones, madduck petrol money and food/drink money

more money winging its way to me next week - i hope

[stevie lee]

Anyone fancy chipping in and getting one of those 4 packs of Left 4 Dead 2 ahead of the lan?

In case you hadn't seen the offer, £80.99 buys four copies of L4D2 off Steam.

just wondering if you are still ordering this, seen as theres 4 of us interested

theres you, me, alsenior and gerrard.

[tiggerai]

hmmm would be good to double check all the patches before we get there....

COD4 is 1.7 patched and C&C is 1.04 Patched too.

any others worth checking guys?

[alsenior]

i'll bring a usb drive full of patches and other stuff for every concievable game as well as a full steam backup and a load of drivers for xp and windows 7 because someone will inevetble need to reinstall ( looking at no-one in particular )

[tiggerai]

Nope, we're still looking fine and dandy here....

[MadduckUK]

Nope, we're still looking fine and dandy here....

of course you are, you aren't at the LAN yet

[tiggerai]

that was a bit below the belt.

[MadduckUK]

the 20p was a bit below the belt

[Salazaar]

hmmm would be good to double check all the patches before we get there....

COD4 is 1.7 patched and C&C is 1.04 Patched too.

any others worth checking guys?

I downloaded Gameshadow the other day, it does a pretty good job of keeping all my games up to date without having to go and search for all the patches individually.

http://www.gameshadow.com/

On a side note, I met the bloke who founded the system when he was first starting up. I can't believe I scoffed at the idea back then (not to his face, that would just have been rude).

[stevie lee]

GRID, left4dead and orange box are all installed, patched up and fully working, just need to get some practice in now

finished last in 3 races in grid, the sudden spearing off at a corner headlong into the barriers doesn't help at least im not hitting the other cars or using them as braking devices.

need quicker reactions for shooting things in l4d, i'm putting it down to low mouse sensitivity.

dont need any practice for C&C, got a basic strategy planned out, just need to remember it.

need to do a complete system backup before i accidentaly mess the computer up again

[Gerrard]

Are you using a control pad for GRID? It's bloody difficult using the keyboard. However, Trackmania (which wasn't played at all last LAN for some reason) isn't too bad I found when using a keyboard. I'll have a spare Xbox controller you can borrow at the LAN is you want.