Aurora 4x

Starfire => SA Questions => Topic started by: Tregonsee on January 22, 2012, 03:52:57 PM

Title: Will SA work in Windows 7?
Post by: Tregonsee on January 22, 2012, 03:52:57 PM: I currently have a laptop that is a dual-boot XP/Vista. The only reason why I have not changed everything to Windows 7 is that I don't know how well SA and Windows 7 work together. Does anyone know?
Title: Re: Will SA work in Windows 7?
Post by: Shinanygnz on January 23, 2012, 03:38:30 PM: I think so. I have it installed on my Windows 7 64 it system and it loads at least, which lets me look at my old Haggi campaign stuff. Haven't tried to run a turn end though.
I also think a lot of the dlls and so forth are shared with Aurora (VB6), so if you install it somewhere other than Program Files, you should be OK.
The Win7 install topic will likely help with any fixes. I have a feeling I had to find a dll or ocx file to make it work.

Stephen
Title: Re: Will SA work in Windows 7?
Post by: Steve Walmsley on January 27, 2012, 11:27:47 AM: If Aurora works then Starfire Assistant should work too. They are both the same (very old :)) technology and same install program

Steve
Title: Re: Will SA work in Windows 7?
Post by: Tregonsee on January 27, 2012, 11:42:36 AM: Thanks for the vote of confidence.
Title: Re: Will SA work in Windows 7?
Post by: sloanjh on January 28, 2012, 10:22:37 AM: Quote from: Shinanygnz on January 23, 2012, 03:38:30 PM
I think so. I have it installed on my Windows 7 64 it system and it loads at least, which lets me look at my old Haggi campaign stuff. Haven't tried to run a turn end though.
I also think a lot of the dlls and so forth are shared with Aurora (VB6), so if you install it somewhere other than Program Files, you should be OK.
The Win7 install topic will likely help with any fixes. I have a feeling I had to find a dll or ocx file to make it work.

Stephen

I started up an SA campaign on my 64-bit win7 box about 6 months ago and didn't notice any OS problems. As Stephen says, you should never ever install Aurora/SA in Program Files on a win7 box :)

John
Title: Re: Will SA work in Windows 7?
Post by: Tregonsee on February 02, 2012, 11:51:01 AM: I rarely put things in program files. Out of curiosity, why would putting it there be bad?
Title: Re: Will SA work in Windows 7?
Post by: Erik L on February 02, 2012, 12:22:57 PM: Quote from: Tregonsee on February 02, 2012, 11:51:01 AM
I rarely put things in program files. Out of curiosity, why would putting it there be bad?

Vista/Win7 really locks down the Program Files structure. Makes it very hard to upgrade Aurora/SA by copying the new exe/database into the program directory. Even if it looks like is has succeeded, it rarely does.
Title: Re: Will SA work in Windows 7?
Post by: Rane on August 22, 2014, 12:06:23 PM: Ive run it on Win7 and Win 8. 1 and had no issues with it on root of c: (C:\sa) or under program files.
Title: Re: Will SA work in Windows 7?
Post by: sloanjh on August 23, 2014, 08:48:46 AM: Quote from: Rane on August 22, 2014, 12:06:23 PM
Ive run it on Win7 and Win 8. 1 and had no issues with it on root of c: (C:\sa) or under program files.

We had a TON of "I just installed Aurora and it doesn't work right" posts due to this (copy protection of program files) ~3-4 years ago IIRC. So now we just tell people not to do it. I suspect the reason it might work for you and not for others has to do with the vagaries of admin privileges, but it's a lot simpler just to advise people to avoid the potential problem altogether.

John

PS - And now that I've actually read the back-thread, I realize you were probably just adding a data point. Leaving my post in though, since I still think people are better off avoiding the issue completely.