Windows 7 hates Sandbox

Malkin · Post by **Malkin** » September 10th, 2010, 4:03 am

I'm having real issues with windows 7. The games I developed last term (college lecturer) run fine under XP. However the college IT dept upgraded all the student PCs to Windows 7 over the summer break. When I load a game from a memory stick - which is how the students save their work - the fps rate rapidly drops to 1...
I've tried running it under the compatibility trouble shooter and Windows 7 correctly identifies that Sandbox likes XP. The launcher starts fine but I get a message saying that Windows is trying to find the directories "packages" and "my_stuff" in windows\win32. Which is exactly where they are not... So the launcher obviously displays no games at all.

The solution would seem to be to install Sandbox in windows\win32 but:
• I'd have to get the IT Dept to do this on some 60 machines which I guarantee such a request would be received very badly
• The students work in three classrooms so would have to copy their .cfg & .art files to their memory sticks at the end of every lesson and from the
stick to windows\win32 at the start of the next lesson. Which they cannot do as they do not have admin rights (thankfully)

So any ideas how I can effectively run Sandbox under Windows 7 would be gratefully received. I’m teaching Computer Games Development next term so have a couple of months to get this resolved. Yet I am starting to panic already.

Malk

Post by **klimyriad** » September 10th, 2010, 4:46 am

Turn off the shaders Ermm and if that does not work i would turn the graphics down also i got Win764 and on my sis PC has got Win732 and there are both fine from a memory stick so it could be the the graphics card does not support the shaders there for you might need to turn the shaders off.

Hope this helps
Klimyriad
Support Team

edit: Also it maybe that you might have to put it on the PC's just test it on one of them and see if it works better if nor make sure you turn the shaders off.

Runescapedj · Post by **Runescapedj** » September 10th, 2010, 5:34 am

I suggest you and your students download the SVN version (w8 a sec, maybe u, cuz they don't have admin rights)

I hope this helps, and as klimyriad said, turning of the shaders will help 2

Post by **klimyriad** » September 10th, 2010, 6:09 am

yea try the svn it works better with win7 anyway more stable and that.

PizzaLover101 · Post by **PizzaLover101** » September 10th, 2010, 6:22 am

yeah, I use both (regular more than svn) and it works fine for me IF I turn my shaders off.

Post by **chocolatepie33** » September 10th, 2010, 6:00 pm

Windows 7 hates a lot of programs... My math teacher uses a poll program, and it sometimes doesn't let students connect... It annoys her...

Post by **klimyriad** » September 11th, 2010, 6:05 am

Win7 works fine for me all the time.

Post by **Leo_V117** » September 12th, 2010, 3:44 pm

It seems to hate some versions of windows 7 more than others.

32 bit seems to work better with sandbox than 64 bit. Its also down to your Graphics Card. Nvidia supports OpenGL Better than ATI. Especially on Windows 7.

A Fix for Sandbox is shown below. This is how I fixed mine. It should work for you guys.

-> Install TortoiseSVN and Codeblocks with MingW Source code compilers.
-> Download the SVN Repos from this URL:

Code: Select all

http://www.svn.kids.platinumarts.net/32pas32/trunk/

-> Build sandbox.cpp located in src/windows.

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