Article: Phantasy Star Universe, GameGuard, and Windows 7

[S-T-H]

nProtect GameGuard recently added support for Windows 7. *As a result, Phantasy Star Universe on PC received a number of updates to the program last night. *Users are now reporting that it can be played on Windows 7 RC2 (Build 7201) without the issues seen before. *With this update, both 32-bit and 64-bit versions are supported.


Microsoft plans to release the full retail version of Windows 7 on October 22, 2009.


More on the GameGuard/Windows 7 support timeline can be found at this official forum thread (http://forums.sega.com/showthread.php?t=271015).

[Dhylec]

Ah, so that's what GG downloads earlier today. It's good to know why.

[ChronoSphere]

Some users were wondering why this is considered news, because it has been working fine since RC1..
Well, that's simple, because only the 64-Bit RC1 was working fine, 32-Bit one crashed with a BSOD the moment Gameguard fully initialized (dump_wmimmc.sys loading).
This was what yesterday's update fixed, at least in the build 7201 which i tested.
Lets hope that Microsoft doesn't break the compatibility in later builds.

[AzXeus]

I am using Windows 7 build 7201 and I have just checked now the new gameguard launcher will still not open, so I needed to create a batch file that auto replaces them with the old one I have in the same folder then it updates and I can play the game.
I also needed to add DEP exeptions to online.exe, PsuIlluminus.exe, PsuIlluminusOff.exe and GameGuard.des otherwise i would just get a windows error come up and say that I should report the problem to M$