Truespace 7.6 and 7.61 crashes

[Shell1850]

I am running Windows 7 on my computer. I want to have a second boot option of XP 64. I installed XP on a second drive. I then hit F8 when I restart my computer to select my boot device.

I can run truespace 6.6 and turbocad 8.1 from my new XP partiton but Truespace 7.6 and 7.61 will get a crash message on startup. I have the latest versions of Directx 9 and ati video drivers. I even tried old ati drivers and no luck. Windows is updated with all the optional and needed updates.

I have a asus M4A79XTD EVO, Phenom II X6 1090T, 16 gb ram, Radeon HD4770 Video Card.

[Shell1850]

I plan to upgrade my video card to Nvidia GTX 460. I am doing this for Vue 9, but it should help TS7.6

Anyone have luck with the GTX 400 series?

[v3rd3]

If you are going pure Nvidia I would expect you should do ok... just don't buy EVGA GTX cards... I have an EVGA GTS450 running on XP... the video craps out intermittently, usually memory errors indicating the drivers are borked.

The only mfr, other than nvidia proper, I like for nvidia chips is XFX.

Good luck and good hunting.

[yymoz]

I am running Windows 7 on my computer. I want to have a second boot option of XP 64. I installed XP on a second drive. I then hit F8 when I restart my computer to select my boot device.

I can run truespace 6.6 and turbocad 8.1 from my new XP partiton but Truespace 7.6 and 7.61 will get a crash message on startup. I have the latest versions of Directx 9 and ati video drivers. I even tried old ati drivers and no luck. Windows is updated with all the optional and needed updates.

I have a asus M4A79XTD EVO, Phenom II X6 1090T, 16 gb ram, Radeon HD4770 Video Card.

Hello my friend! I have been using GTX440 Nvidia chipset 512mb ddr vidram for a while in various versions of Truespace [v3.2, v5.2, v7.6server & v7.62 bridged] under WinXP32-bit with a P4Intel 3gb [hyperthreaded] 2gbram. I used to have some crashes in hware intensive programs like Poser and truespace 7.x ... but I disabled data-execute protect on BIOS startup and that seemed to have remedied that.

I find Nvidia cards - even some Gigabyte-branded cards - to be pretty consistent, if the drivers are nvidia originals and are frequently updated and even re-installed if the performance is getting 'shaggy'.