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Couatl64_P3D.exe - Entry Point Not Found **WINDOWS 7 is no longer supported**
Captain Lars:
I get your point. However, you suggested multiple times in this thread that as users of an unsupported operating system, we should backup installers, so that we can go back to one of these if something breaks. I quote you in this thread:
--- Quote ---- Install GSX from a previous installer you still have, WITH THE NETWORK DISCONNECTED, so it won't update. Of course, won't be able to update GSX anymore, exactly like you are not able to update Windows 7 anymore.
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--- Quote ---If you followed sane backup procedures, and have a fairly recent copy of the installer, installing it without a network connection should get you a version that was current at the time you made the backup. If I decided to say with Windows 7 for some reason, I would started doing backups of everything I bought 2 years ago.
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--- Quote ---As I've said already, if you run an older installer with the network disconnected, it will work with that version, just you won't be able to UPDATE again so, you would be exactly in the same situation MICROSOFT has already put you 2 years ago: no more Windows Updates for Windows 7 and no more support.
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--- Quote ---When you download the installer, at the end of the installation it will ASK YOU if you want to KEEP the installer you just downloaded in the Documents\GSX_Installer folder. The Document folder has been chosen under the assumption ANY user SHOULD do REGULAR Backups of his own Documents folder.
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I understand that by using the small 600 KB installer, this installer would then, of course, load the newest files, which already don't work anymore with Win7. So how is this "installing wiht the network disconnected" going? Where would I get such an installer that I can backup on my machine? Generally speaking and for the future, since the 32Bit version can break anyday, too, if I understand you correctly.
Thank you.
virtuali:
--- Quote from: Captain Lars on March 11, 2022, 08:25:51 pm ---I understand that by using the small 600 KB installer, this installer would then, of course, load the newest files, which already don't work anymore with Win7. So how is this "installing wiht the network disconnected" going? Where would I get such an installer that I can backup on my machine? Generally speaking and for the future, since the 32Bit version can break anyday, too, if I understand you correctly.
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You are asking your question, because you have probably forgot that, when the small installer downloads the main files, which are current at the time of the installation, it downloads them in your Documents\GSX_Installer folder and, at the end of the installation, it will ask you if you want to keep them for "future installs".
The choice of your Documents folder it's not obviously random: EVERYBODY should BACKUP his Documents folder regularly! And of course, when you are using an OS you KNOW ( because Microsoft told you so many times ) that has been gone out of support for 2+ years, when you see the sentence "for future installs", you should use common sense that, probably, it's best to DO what it's being asked and KEEP the backup.
But again, that's entirely besides the point. Why you keep insisting on the older installer, when it seems the 32 bit version of the *current* software works just fine, so you not only can keep using the products, but you can even keep them updated ( unless some day even the 32 bit version might stop to work, we just don't know )
Captain Lars:
--- Quote from: virtuali on March 11, 2022, 11:09:33 pm ---You are asking your question, because you have probably forgot that, when the small installer downloads the main files, which are current at the time of the installation, it downloads them in your Documents\GSX_Installer folder and, at the end of the installation, it will ask you if you want to keep them for "future installs".
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I didn't know that because I always use the FSDT Updater...
--- Quote from: virtuali on March 11, 2022, 11:09:33 pm ---( unless some day even the 32 bit version might stop to work, we just don't know )
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Exactly.
virtuali:
--- Quote from: Captain Lars on March 12, 2022, 07:06:57 pm ---I didn't know that because I always use the FSDT Updater...
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The Updater only does what the name says: update the product. But you MUST have used the installer at some time, you just forget about it, ignored the message, failed to backup your Documents folder, so you lost it. It's not possible to even use the updater, if you never ran the installer at least once.
--- Quote ---( unless some day even the 32 bit version might stop to work, we just don't know )
Exactly.
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Not sure what you mean with "exactly". I should be saying that...
My point was, once you have an installer that WORKS for you, YOU SHOULD DO A BACKUP, because that's what you are supposed to do BECAUSE you must surely KNOW you are using an unsupported OS so you can't just demand we'd keep an history of legacy installers, which adds to our server bandwidth fees every month, JUST to cover for users of unsupported OS that don't do their backups.
So, again, if you really want to continue to use Windows 7 ( WHY ? You know very well you WILL end up with a newer OS, sooner or later, or you really think your hardware will last "forever" ? ), now that it seems we found out you can use the CURRENT version of the installer, with the 32 bit of the executable, I hope THIS TIME you'll do your backup so, if and when even the 32 bit version will eventually stop working, which we can't obviously know since we can't test it, you'll be at least able to use the version you DID a backup of.
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