Compatibility with Windows 8
shakurass
Join Date: 2012-11-04 Member: 166859Members
Join Date: 2012-11-04 Member: 166859Members
When I had Windows 7 on my machine I was able to clock 11 hours in Natural Selection 2 without any issues. However, I have just recently installed Windows 8 and cannot seem to get Natural Selection to start. When I load the program it simply goes to a black screen instantly and stays there until I alt-tab out to the bug report screen behind it. Of the 20 or 30 times I have tried starting the game it did actually work once though I am not sure what made it work or why. I have tried compatibility mode with various version of Windows, tried run as administrator on both steam and the actual game executable itself, and verified the game using steam. Of all the games I have on my machine this is the only one having issues with Windows 8. Other games tested include Skyrim, Battlefield 3, and good old Minecraft; all of which work with no issues.
System specs are:
E6700 overclocked to 3.25
4 GB of RAM
EVGA 9800 GTX+
2 x Velociraptors in RAID 0
I know this system is old however as I mentioned the game worked flawlessly in Windows 7.
Is anyone else having issues with NS2 and Windows 8?
System specs are:
E6700 overclocked to 3.25
4 GB of RAM
EVGA 9800 GTX+
2 x Velociraptors in RAID 0
I know this system is old however as I mentioned the game worked flawlessly in Windows 7.
Is anyone else having issues with NS2 and Windows 8?
Comments
Any minidumps or errors you could provide would be very helpful.
Thanks
Time: 15:11:45
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Build 228
Steam initialized
Render Device: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ (9.18.13.697)<!--c2--></div><!--ec2-->
This is all there is in the log.txt file. As for the minidump I am unsure of how to read this file because I cannot find where NS2 puts it.
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I alt-tab out to the bug report screen behind it.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Paste the info from that report.
Did you restart between now and then, and not after installing ns2? I know with steam games i've never had to, but sometimes restarting is magical.
For me Steam is infatuated with "validate integrity of game cache"
If I ever have a problem, 90% of the time that fixes it in the same way that a re-install would.
There were problems with start of earlier bought games.
At natural selection 2 start game isn't started. At start of game there is a window:
"couldn't initialize the render device".
what can it mean?
what it is necessary to make that game went to the personal computer from win8?
I ask you to give help and to prompt as me to arrive.
Otherwise check you drivers for your graphics are installed properly. Supply a techsupport zip will also help.
Goto /steam/steamapps/common/natural selection 2/TechSupport.exe and run the file, then post the results here. A copy of log.txt which is in %AppData%/Roaming/Natural Selection 2/ would be helpful too.