Thank you Windows XP testers

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I want to give a shout out to our Windows XP beta testers.  Thanks to your reports, we were able to track down that issue that was causing it to frequently crash on some Windows XP setups.  

As you can imagine, in 2012, it is difficult to replicate "real world" Windows XP systems. There's only so many uncles and aunts in the world to bother and after the...you know, "formatting" incident, I'm not allowed to visit.

Should go out in tonight's build.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Should go out in tonight's build.

:inlove:

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Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

omg another build tonight? win crash fixes and autoresolve too??? 

 

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

You don't have XP do you?

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

My head is spinnin' from all the fixin'!

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

*shrug* im one of they few old fashioned with xp :D

 

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Frogboy, reply 3
You don't have XP do you?

Who, me? No, I just want the build! }:)

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

but what to do now? i wanted to play a bit with relias but if the new build is coming out i cant

Reply #8 from Elemental Forums Top

is this an xp fix only buid?

Reply #9 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting joasoze, reply 9
is this an xp fix only buid?

No. We're updating a bunch of stuff tonight. But thsi particular fix is XP only.

Reply #10 from Elemental Forums Top

Then please release and colour me ready

Reply #11 from Elemental Forums Top

(20 crash reports later...)  Yay!  I was losing hope.  And right before I begin seriously considering going to Windows 7 to play XCom. :borg:

 

Reply #12 from Elemental Forums Top

omg xcom need win 7?

 

Reply #13 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Frogboy, reply 10

No. We're updating a bunch of stuff tonight. But thsi particular fix is XP only.

 

Looking forward to it.

Reply #14 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting DexCisco, reply 12
(20 crash reports later...)  Yay!  I was losing hope.  And right before I begin seriously considering going to Windows 7 to play XCom.

 

Recommend Win7 regardless if you can afford it. I made the switch from 32 bit Vista to 64 Win about a month ago and haven't looked back.

Reply #15 from Elemental Forums Top

You should still get Windows 7.

Reply #16 from Elemental Forums Top

I took one for the team.  I have two beautiful Windows 7 machines calling my name, but I wanted to struggle through on Windows XP to get those bugs!

Reply #18 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Frogboy, reply 16
You should still get Windows 7.

 

I've taken seriously the recommendations of several people about this, but it's going to have to wait until next year.  Too many necessary expenses.  We just can't afford it at the moment, and I suspect I'm not the only one in the same somewhat leaky boat.