Windows 7 and PSU (RC2 Edition)

In January, I blogged a little about my attempts to run PSU in Windows 7. The game did not run properly with the Windows 7 Beta, mostly due to the fact that GameGuard would not start. Fortunately, that problem was solved by tweaking the GameGuard configuration, but it only worked on x64 (64-bit) versions of Windows 7.

Earlier this week, there was a rumor floating around on the official PSU forums that INCA Internet, the company that manages nProtect GameGuard, had released a patch that added support for Windows 7. Players were reporting that this new patch allowed them to play PSU without problems on Windows 7 Release Candidate 2 build 7201.

To test this rumor, I installed a clean copy of PSU on my copy of Windows 7 RC2. Unlike the players in the forum thread, though, I'm running build 7229 on my system. I managed to get GameGuard and PSU to run on the first attempt. I thought I was in the clear after that, but once GameGuard patched itself to the "Windows 7 supported" version, I was unable to get PSU to run anymore. Instead, this error message appeared:



Reverting to the previous workaround allowed me to run the game normally.

As far as running the game on build 7201 is concerned, I have no idea if that works or not. If you're running a build newer than 7201, beware.