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Why will Post Mortem play on Win7 (2002) but Still Life (2005) won't?? #968428 07/17/14 11:04 PM 07/17/14 11:04 PM
Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 890 Illinois BubbaJake OP Settled Boomer
BubbaJake OP Settled Boomer Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 890 Illinois	I have these 2 games, and I would love to play Still Life on my Win7 PC, but it won't even load! Post Mortem plays like a charm. Is this just me or am I getting something confused? I REALLY want to play Still Life in comfort on the newer PC and not in the creepy family room, alone... Is there something I can do to get the more recent Still Life to play?

Re: Why will Post Mortem play on Win7 (2002) but Still Life (2005) won't?? [Re: BubbaJake] #968430 07/17/14 11:11 PM 07/17/14 11:11 PM
Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 40,644 southeast USA Jenny100 GB Reviewer Glitches Moderator
Jenny100 GB Reviewer Glitches Moderator Sonic Boomer Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 40,644 southeast USA	The disc version of Still Life was sold with the evil StarForce v3 on it. You're going to need a NoCD if you're using the disc version. You may also have to set compatibility mode on Still Life to Windows NT 4.0.

Re: Why will Post Mortem play on Win7 (2002) but Still Life (2005) won't?? [Re: Jenny100] #968431 07/17/14 11:12 PM 07/17/14 11:12 PM
Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 50,770 near Yosemite Marian Global Moderator
Marian Global Moderator Sonic Boomer Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 50,770 near Yosemite	Installing the Vista patch also helped get the game running for some people.

Re: Why will Post Mortem play on Win7 (2002) but Still Life (2005) won't?? [Re: BubbaJake] #968438 07/18/14 12:52 AM 07/18/14 12:52 AM
Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 20,993 Near St. Louis, MO Draclvr Reviews Editor - Hints/Glitches Mod - Site Support
Draclvr Reviews Editor - Hints/Glitches Mod - Site Support True Blue Boomer Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 20,993 Near St. Louis, MO	GOG has Still Life which will run on Windows 7 for $9.99. Nice thing is that is scrubbed free of StarForce. http://www.gog.com/game/still_life Gardens put to bed. Time for more reading and gaming.

Re: Why will Post Mortem play on Win7 (2002) but Still Life (2005) won't?? [Re: BubbaJake] #968737 07/20/14 07:17 AM 07/20/14 07:17 AM
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plumgas Settled Boomer P Joined: May 2009 Posts: 284 Australia	steam version runs fine also, but I would say a bit expensive for $10 I would buy it from steam for the $2.50 each for 1 & 2 Last edited by plumgas; 07/20/14 07:21 AM.

Re: Why will Post Mortem play on Win7 (2002) but Still Life (2005) won't?? [Re: BubbaJake] #968779 07/20/14 12:57 PM 07/20/14 12:57 PM
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oldbroad True Blue Boomer Joined: Apr 2006 Posts: 20,794 Chicago	Actually Steam has the Still Life Collection on sale right now for $4.99 which includes Post Mortem as well as both Still Life games.

Re: Why will Post Mortem play on Win7 (2002) but Still Life (2005) won't?? [Re: plumgas] #970267 07/28/14 12:14 PM 07/28/14 12:14 PM
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BubbaJake OP Settled Boomer Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 890 Illinois	PLUMGAS and others,I got Still Life from STEAM for $2.49. $2.49!! It's playing flawlessly and I can't say if it's Starforce free or not, but it's electrifying to be playing again! Marian, I did get the VISTA patch download FINALLY and will still give it a try because I believe in you. I will give it a try and let you know what happens.!

Re: Why will Post Mortem play on Win7 (2002) but Still Life (2005) won't?? [Re: BubbaJake] #970274 07/28/14 12:32 PM 07/28/14 12:32 PM
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Jenny100 GB Reviewer Glitches Moderator Sonic Boomer Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 40,644 southeast USA	Originally Posted By: BubbaJake PLUMGAS and others,I got Still Life from STEAM for $2.49. $2.49!! It's playing flawlessly and I can't say if it's Starforce free or not, but it's electrifying to be playing again! There is no downloadable game that uses disc-based StarForce. There is no disc. The type of StarForce that uses online authentication is nothing like the disc-based StarForce and is much the same as any other type of online authentication.

Re: Why will Post Mortem play on Win7 (2002) but Still Life (2005) won't?? [Re: BubbaJake] #971022 08/01/14 12:35 PM 08/01/14 12:35 PM
Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 890 Illinois BubbaJake OP Settled Boomer
BubbaJake OP Settled Boomer Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 890 Illinois	I don't understand what you mean by 'No downloadable game that uses disc-based Staaforce'.

Re: Why will Post Mortem play on Win7 (2002) but Still Life (2005) won't?? [Re: BubbaJake] #971025 08/01/14 12:55 PM 08/01/14 12:55 PM
Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 50,770 near Yosemite Marian Global Moderator
Marian Global Moderator Sonic Boomer Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 50,770 near Yosemite	Disc-based Starforce only comes on physical CDs as a means of copy protection. Downnloadable games have other methods of verification/authentication. The Vista patch may work for you, but I think your best best is to use/run the NoCD crack for Still Life on Windows 7 - that should fix your problem.

Re: Why will Post Mortem play on Win7 (2002) but Still Life (2005) won't?? [Re: BubbaJake] #971099 08/01/14 09:10 PM 08/01/14 09:10 PM
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Collector Settled Boomer C Joined: Oct 2009 Posts: 243	That and the NT4 compatibility setting. Owner, author of The Sierra Help Pages

Re: Why will Post Mortem play on Win7 (2002) but Still Life (2005) won't?? [Re: Collector] #971201 08/02/14 11:26 AM 08/02/14 11:26 AM
Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 50,770 near Yosemite Marian Global Moderator
Marian Global Moderator Sonic Boomer Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 50,770 near Yosemite	Originally Posted By: Collector That and the NT4 compatibility setting. Yes - thank you for adding that.

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