delays starting in win7 x86

[braden]

Hello all,

i've been happily playing FC2 under xp32 without any problems.

 

decided to dual boot the same pc with win7 x86, and installed FC2 again.

 

under win7, when i press on the start mission button, the menu disappears, i can see the FC2 icon on the windows taskbar and it sits there for 1-2minutes before the screen (with grey loading progress bar) is even displayed.

 

under XP it's instantaneous.

 

performance in game seems the same, its just the loading that gets infuriating :)

 

if you've experienced the same, and got a workaround - could you share?

 

xp and win7 are on same HDD (diff partitions)

FC2 for xp and FC2 for win7 are installed in seperate directories of same HDD (not the o/s HDD)

 

i7-920@4,asus p6t deluxe v2, 6gb,evga gtx295 (258 drivers under xp and win7)

Edited September 8, 2010 by braden

[happyslayeruk]

I'm running Win7 64 and have the same behaviour but not for 1-2 min maybe for 10 secs as the mission loads, this is because of the switch from launcher.exe to simulator.exe. I have FC2 installed on the same disc as win 7 but not in the default install directory I have it installed at c:\flamingcliffs2.

 

OT but is win 7 x86 really a good idea with your system? you're wasting 2.8 GB of your RAM plus other benefits of using a 64bit os.

[braden]

OT but is win 7 x86 really a good idea with your system? you're wasting 2.8 GB of your RAM plus other benefits of using a 64bit os.

 

All i've seen in fc2, arma2, fsx, blackshark are far lower (bordering unplayable) framerates with win7x64 on my pc.

 

win7x64 was the first o/s on my pc and its still there for non-sim games.

winxp32 flies along with the sim games mentioned above, silky smooth - i really feel like i am flying

win7x32 performance is same as winxp except the pause whilst changing exe in fc2. havent tried blackshark yet...will try it tonight.

 

for the record, i didnt get the pause between fc2 menu exe and simulator.exe on win7x64