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HAWX Demo crashes under Vista
on Tuesday, March, 10, 2009 11:30 PM
So I noticed today that the demo for Tom Clancey's HAWX was on Steam, so I dl'd it to try it out. Whenever I start it up, though, it crashes and doesn't work at all. Anyone have any idea why?

Kinda made me upset after watching a good half-hour of gameplay footage while waiting for it to install, lol.

EDIT: Now this is odd, I just checked the Steamapps folder in Windows Explorer (where all Steam-installed games go), and the HAWX Demo isn't even in there.

I'll have to try reinstalling it later. Wah.

 
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Re: HAWX Demo crashes under Vista
on Wednesday, March, 11, 2009 10:53 AM
Have you trie running it as admin on Vista? Usually you would right click on the icon and run as and given the option as admin I believe is one way of doing it. Then there is the compatability mode of vista and have it mimick running on a earlier oparating system as well. Try those two out to see if it will make a difference for the game?


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Re: HAWX Demo crashes under Vista
on Wednesday, March, 11, 2009 5:08 PM
Compucore Wrote:Have you trie running it as admin on Vista? Usually you would right click on the icon and run as and given the option as admin I believe is one way of doing it. Then there is the compatability mode of vista and have it mimick running on a earlier oparating system as well. Try those two out to see if it will make a difference for the game?



I actually found out that the demo installs with an earlier version of DirectX that's not compatible with the actual game. I reinstalled the latest version of DirectX from Microsft's website and the game ran great.

Problem solved, thanks internet!

 
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Re: HAWX Demo crashes under Vista
on Wednesday, March, 11, 2009 8:35 PM
DOH :O There you go. An incompatable DirectX thingie. Now I know why I try and stay with open GL over here. Well at least you have it running nicely now. I finally got XAMPP on one computer running nicely and Wamp running on another system as well. They are used to create web sites with Apache, Mysql, and php combined. A lot easier to work with than going through the long way of getting IIS6/& running, Then hardwiring php and Mysql configured into the servers themselves. Especially on a AMD Athlon and Semperon systems. On my intel server no problem to run them. But on AMD I keep getting the problem of getting mysql running properly on the Athlon Servers. Both are running Windows 2003 server and 2008 server respectively.
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