64bit CSS/Hl2.exe?

Lucy · Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 7:42 am Post subject:

Maybe our experiences differ due to the version of VMware we have ran. I have been using VMware fusion on my macbook, and it came with a great feature called VmWare Tools, that along with enhanching mouse and keyboard support, enable drag and drop file copying between guest and host os, and vice versa.

Also, you can always enable the file sharing between guest/host via the preferences panel, but may its different in VM Workstation. It's been a long time since I've used it.

I suppose you have a good point though. While my macbook is pretty beefey, much so enough to handle running xp with full graphics acceleration (css actually ran better in vmware/bootcamp XP than on my old busted PC), if your pc isn't exactly on the up and up with horsepower, I could def see running Win7 being a slowdown.

Gratz to editing partition table w/o destorying your current Host partition. I would never trust a MS tool to do it myself though.

On a side note: It wasn't my printer drivers. Vista is just a bloated piece of shit. Only diff in removing them is now i get a bluescreen before a restart, but still randomly crashing for no good reason. Dualboot XP Pro 64 and win7 here I come.

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Fury · Satanic Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 428 Location: OhIO

Its not Vista causing your problems, to me it sounds like a power issue plain and simple and if you have not been monitoring voltages somehow (best to use a volt meter). A instant shutdown will very rarely be caused by software period. You may only see this in Vista because it does require some more resources then Xp ,which i cannot stand after using Win 7 & Vista so long. Didn't you say you kinda had to frankinstein 2 power supplies together?
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Lucy · Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 5:04 pm Post subject:

Thing is, though maybe this is semantics, its not an instant shutdown but reboot. I've seen computers shutdown due to lack of juice, but never reboot. Plus it happens at completely random times. In fact, never when I'm pushing the system to the limit, when its using the most power, but when its just sitting idle, or simple browsing. I skipped the Frankenstein, and shelled out the cash for an 850w, so power isnt the issue.

Maybe vista doesn't like my hardware, even though all but a few pieces are OEM. But I find it hard to believe that a pci-e video, sata hd and 2 chips of quality ram are to fault, as it has been doing this fresh out of the box, before I installed/uninstalled a single piece of hardware or software.

I maintain my blame vista stance. In the process of moving/archiving necessary data to other internal/external and dvds, then later tonight im splitting my primary os drive for Win7 and Xp pro 64bit. Had enough of this nonsense.

I wouldn't even be running vista, but it came preinstalled, and I thought "why not?".

Now I know why...

CorKy · Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 9:50 pm Post subject:

I'd be suprised if installing xp and win 7 fix your problem,
but I like to be proved wrong Wink

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Lucy · Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 6:14 am Post subject:

xp pro sp3 copr. edition 64bit installed as primary OS.

Yet to see any problems. Very Happy

Also, to go back to our vmware discussion, I toyed with VMware Workstation 6.5 last night, and just like in Fusion for mac, you can drag and drop files to and from guest OS, as well as share folders in the more traditional matter. Not sure what problems you had with that.