Update: Well I got it work on Win7 by turning Vsync on. Yes I felt foolish after trying to find a fix online, and finding several bad fixes. This works but adds a small bit of instability. My GPU and CPU are working twice as hard as needed but it runs good. Once in a while a movement order is ignored or no action available for a selected unit and the zoom is a bit twitchy. This is rare and restarting the game fixes it.
It will take up to 5 cores to 30-40%. I know this game does not need that. Works and glad it does. Points below are still valid to me.
Great game. One of my all time favorites. Great graphics and the best 3D movement system yet. Some complain of the difficulty and I like it being difficult. Makes replays worth playing. The key is to be aggressive! For example, The mission to retrieve the three cores move into the dust cloud to interrupt the Vagayr jump and form up. Disruption will save a lot of ships on some of these missions. And it is better to turtle up on a few too. Why I like this game so much.
The bad news. I cannot get this to play on Win 7 at all. A very small amount of info online and little of it I am comfortable doing. Too bad. Great game. This would play for me in Vista so I thought it was a game that could make the transition to 7. Not so. It will boot up but the view is locked at boot location and no screen pan. Gives two error msg's @ boot for drivers I think it was. Run as admin or under compatibility is a lost cause. 7 refuses to make it work.
I just bought a new i7 2600 with Win 7 and was so looking forward to playing Homeworld 2. Windows crushes all dreams in the end.
Thank you windows for losing another great game for me, a-wipes. This was the 3rd copy I bought to replace a scratched disk.
