Windows 7 and Jazz?

[Mycatisbigfoot]

Hey guys
I have a mac book and run windows 7 on it. I can get my jazz to run like it should it makes my system crash and what not. I am thinking of fireing up my old windows 98se computer for the best game ever.

So two things

How hard would it to be to get jazz to run on 98se? and what are the popular online versons, Also Can i have more then one install at a time? Thanks guys

[Sonyk]

JJ2 shouldn't be making your computer crash at all, it runs fine on Windows 7 on the three machines I've used it with. It should run perfectly on any version of Windows 9x, but then you're running Windows 9x and that's pretty bad of itself. I don't really know what you're asking with your last two questions but you should probably be more concerned about your system's apparent instability.

[Mycatisbigfoot]

Well i think its just my windows 7 computer as its a mac, and its crap. but
I am saying with jazz there are other versons then just like 1.0 what are the ones used for net play? and can i have more then one verson installed at a time ?

[Sonyk]

There's only two "versions." Retail (1.23 being the latest patched version), and The Secret Files (which is numbered version 1.24 to prevent incompatibilities).

1.23 is the more popular version for online play since TSF was never released outside of a small portion of Europe, but this is moot thanks to Blur's JJ2+, which adds a ton of multiplayer features, compatibility between the two existing versions and some bugfixes. As long as you've got either of those, they can be patched to plus versions.

[Mycatisbigfoot]

ok well i am going to get my old dell going soon, to run jj2, also I am thinking of hosting my own server, how would i go about doing that?

[Troglobite]

First, I would suggest joining another game to make sure you haven't forgotten to allow jj2 through any firewalls you may have, or anything that might prevent online gameplay, and to make sure there are actually other people online at the moment. Then, open "New Game", "Party Mode", "Internet Play", "<Start a new Game>" and create the game however you would like. If no one joins in a good amount of time, it's likely that your server is pinging, and no one is able to join. Solutions for that can be found here (http://www.jazz2online.com/jcf/showthread.php?t=9102). Also, I would strongly recommend using jj2+ (http://www.jazz2online.com/jcf/showthread.php?t=17567) because it can solve connection problems and various other issues, as well as improve functionality.

[Treylina]

1.23 is the more popular version for online play since TSF was never released outside of a small portion of Europe, but this is moot thanks to Blur's JJ2+, which adds a ton of multiplayer features, compatibility between the two existing versions and some bugfixes. As long as you've got either of those, they can be patched to plus versions.

Nowadays, I actually am starting to see a lot more use 1.24 plus now (including me ;p). More features and such. Ofc there are still some 1.23 plus users out there, but I don't see those kind (as much) anymore. But if you have the retail version and can't be bothered to buy TSF/don't want to DL it, I suppose you might as well go with 1.23 plus. Oh and I don't go onto hotels/tests very much anymore.

[Mycatisbigfoot]

well I am going to get my windows 98 computer running in a bit, Just have to move some stuff around like the disk drive thing

So that is my project for the day

[blurredd]

The only potential problem I can think of is if your OS is using hardware Data Execution Prevention, though I wouldn't know anything about DEP causing entire systems to crash. What exactly are you seeing on the system crash?

If you're actually having a problem with hardware DEP, you can either disable it for JJ2 (http://www.itechtalk.com/thread3591.html) or you can use JJ2+ (http://www.jazz2online.com/jj2+) which should solve any DEP problems.

[Mycatisbigfoot]

My system just stops and sits and does nothing or the colours of the game are badly messed up


Its just this crap tastic computer,
A crappy mac book thing

[Slaz]

There is a JJ2 version comparable to 1.23 that runs natively on Mac OS. I think it's compatible with online play, though it doesn't include JCS. Demo here: http://www.dutchfurs.com/~haze/blog/files.php?cat=files&dir=files/mac/shareware

And the colors being 'messed up' could be caused by the Aero themes from Vista and 7, I remember there was a compatibility option to turn advanced themes off when a specific program is running. Just right click on the Jazz2 shortcut or exe, choose Properties, and switch to the Compatibility tab.

[Mycatisbigfoot]

Well I can not track down the mac verson, also with that I cant install anything on the mac .

I hate playing around with the settings in windows and I did re-buld my dell for jj2 and some other games that would not run under 7 at all