Hoster 4.11 and Win7 - Video included

[ThomasN]

Did a clean install of Windows 7 Ultimate 64 and installed drivers and such. Got the new Hoster v4.11 and this is what happens.

http://www.uwpltd.com/HOSTER411VID/Hoster1.html

Hoster seems to work fine. Music plays fine. But as you can tell from video graphics are jacked up.

The video card is a Geforce 8800 with latest Win7 drivers.

So is this a Win7 thing? I tried a SUNFLY, and two CHARTBUSTER songs in the video.

[ddouglass]

First make sure you have gone through this checklist and done the steps on it that you can. Obviously not everything will be the same between Vista and Windows 7 but the latter is based on Vista so most of the same things would apply. I know it was tested by MTU and a couple Beta Testers on Windows 7 but I don't believe any of them were using 64 bit so you may be in uncharted water.
http://www.mtu.com/upgrades/hoster/v...de-hoster4.htm

[admin]

Dale is correct, you must make all the Vista changes that apply to what you will be doing. Windows 7 requires these.

It looks to me like your graphics driver is not ready for release. The fact it is finally" drawing the ChartBuster logo, says we are feeding the "rendered" graphics to it, but it's struggling for some reason. I'd go back to Nvidia and report it to them. I expect they too may be running the race to get things finished for the real Windows 7 rollout on Oct 22.

Please post back here what you find. We want to be sure it is not Hoster. If so, we'll have to get a 64-bit W7 system up for testing to find the problem.

[gduns - with the Lord]

I have just built a new computer, and installed win7 64 bit. I did none of the vista changes, I used all of the default windows 7 64 bit drivers that installed with the system. I did not use the nvidea drivers for win 7. Hoster works perfect with this installation.

I had 2 identical machines built by a "computer shop" which I am sure they Installed with the drivers that came with the board, and the drivers that came with the nvidea card. it is doing the same as yours is doing.

I plan to reinstall win 7 with the included win7 drivers on the windows disk, and I'll betcha it works fine.

[ThomasN]

I will try that too. This is a new install of Win7 and it detected all the hardware from the install. I put the drivers on it from Nvidia's site.

I will re-install and see what it does without the Nvidia drivers. Should be interesting to see if it works.

Dale I did try the tweaks for Vista and it did the same.

[ddouglass]

Can't hurt and may save other problems you haven't seen yet. I was not aware of the driver issue with manufacturer's drivers. I guess Microsoft gets one right once in a while.