BF2S Forums Minimage programs that work on windows 7?

Burn the disc.

hmm, i burned the dvd, and it didn't work, presumably there's some DRM or Securom or similar

next suggestion?

CrazeD wrote:

If you can mount it and it works, you can burn it and it will work.

Download ImgBurn. Easiest burning utility ever.

Nah, there's some difference. Some disc ID or something I'm not read up on. A burnt copy of a disc won't work.

buy bf2 for like £5 on ebay.

saves alot of hassle tbh.

JoshP wrote:

hmm, i burned the dvd, and it didn't work, presumably there's some DRM or Securom or similar

next suggestion?

I heard somewhere that to get anything mounted to use in Windows 7 (including the Windows 7 iso itself) you had to burn it (mount) to a DVD within Vista, xp and cd's wont work, something to do with filesystem :S

CrazeD wrote:

Yes, burn the mini image.

Daemon Tools or Alcohol 120% or whatever are just virtual cd drives. It is as if the disc is actually in the PC. So if you actually burn what you're trying to mount, you accomplish the same task.

Now, those virtual things have security bypasses like SECUROM and stuff, but you can also bypass that when burning with things like CloneDVD.

ok, i'll try that ty

FFLink13 wrote:

Tried compatibility mode?

Of course

twoblacklines wrote:

buy bf2 for like £5 on ebay.

saves alot of hassle tbh.

why? i'm just testing it on windows 7 because someone asked, it works fine in xp with daemon tools

Last edited by JoshP (2008-12-31 07:24:03)

Finray wrote:

Windows 7 is out?

The latest Beta of it (Build 7000, iirc) has leaked to the Net.

Supposedly stable. Looks just like the other Windows 7 betas. Someone else on here has it, I think, and said it boots faster than XP or Vista. Which it should if Microsoft is touting it as a perfect OS for netbooks.

twoblacklines wrote:

It does indeed boot faster but then again XP boots about the same speed on a fresh install!

Which I have just done, once the bios is out the way I'm on my desktop in ~15 seconds, into CoD4 ~25 seconds.

In terms of application support for common apps like Winamp, Firefox and so on - what's it like? Thinking of trying out build 7000 on my server.

CrazeD wrote:

JoshP wrote:

I haz it, i posted a screen in another windows 7 thread somewhere in tech

xfire me for torrent links

btw, it's an excellent OS so far. A few compatibility issues with sound, and it not detecting my wireless properly, but they are minor niggles- far better than the beta of vista when it came out.

Oh, and to all you vista-touting guys, windows 7 beta is more stable for me (no bsod's yet), and more compatible, than vista with SP1. So either my hardware hates vista but loves windows 7 and xp, or vista sucks...

Spoiler (highlight to read):
/flamebait

I'd say it's your hardware.

99% of the time, BSOD = hardware.

I haven't gotten a BSOD on XP in a very long time. I don't think I've ever had one in Vista. Vista seems more stable to me than XP. For example, sometimes a program will freeze and cause explorer to lag or become unresponsive on XP, but when the same thing happens in Vista, explorer is still completely fine and I'm able to end task said program.

Vista does not have instability issues.

Well, for me, Vista BSOD'd extremely regularly. In excess of once a day, and I didn't ever play games on my Vista install, so the hardware wasn't under much stress when it BSOD'd.

XP on the other hand, BSOD's pretty rarely, once a month at most, if i get it more than that, I reinstall Windows, which has fixed it every time I did that.

Windows 7 appears to be much more stable than Vista - on a clean install of Vista, stuff still lagged, hung, froze, etc and the processes needed killing. However on Windows 7, I haven't had a BSOD or anything freeze yet (admittedly I have only used it for ~ 10 hours, however those 10 hours have been nigh on perfect).

Also on Vista, I had strange driver issues with my graphics where I had a sort of flicker effect on my monitor, like, horizontal white lines about 2 inches long appearing in random places across the screen, about 1 every second or so, which was pretty strange and rather irritating.

With Windows 7 (bear in mind this is the same hardware I have used for all 3 o/s's), it automatically detected my monitor when installing, and set it to the correct resolution () and the flicker effect is also absent.

Freezing programs - in XP, i just swat them with a good old taskkill /im <process,.exe> /f /t , which works a treat. In Vista, I found that a freezing program usually ended up with a restart - which also took longer in Vista than XP.

Based on the above, beta testing Windows 7 tells me that it's an awsm o/s that needs a few compatibility tweaks, but will be epic when it's RTM.
XP has been a great o/s for me for the past 3 years, and i've had very few problems with it.
On the other hand, each time I try Vista, I get plagued with compatibility issues, driver issues, strange monitor flicker, and general instablity.

Windows 7, for me, has fixed all the problems with Vista - and is, basically, what I wish Vista was

tl;dr win7 > xp > vista

Edit: longpost is long
Also - my opinions on XP, Vista, and Windows 7 are solely based on my experiences with them, because, well, that's what matters to me

Last edited by JoshP (2008-12-31 11:16:12)

twoblacklines wrote:

LOL my volume slider crashed in windows 7 about 2 minutes ago, and disappeared. Only a reboot cured it. wtf !?

beta