Launch win 7

I installed win 7 with bootcamp and after the installation when i tried to launch win 7 there only shows up a black window with flashing bar. i would be really grateful so helping me.thank you

Janne69 wrote:
so i tried the installation now with windows xp sp2, and what a surprise its the same problem after the restart i chose windows and there was also the black window.
Please provide more details about your OS and exactly what steps you are taking to install. Here are the instructions.
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/bootcampinstall-setup.pdf
Please confirm you are following them.

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@Darksoul71
Heh, don't know if I'm so die hard UT99 player, but I like it very much, and I'm rather not interested in sequels. It just happens that most of the PC games I consider "best of the best" are those made in 90's. Later, most of the gaming industry gone too commercial, if you know what I mean. They just keep selling same old ideas in shiny new boxes.
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What means - setting affinity had no apparent effect.
2. Run winecfg and then immediately set it's affinity:
winecfg& taskset -cp 0 $!; sleep 1; taskset -cp $!
Output:
[1] 20482
pid 20482's current affinity list: 0,1
pid 20482's new affinity list: 0
pid 20482's current affinity list: 0,1
So it seems like it's changing the affinity, but again, with no real effect.
3. Run winecfg, wait a second, and then set affinity:
winecfg& sleep 1; taskset -cp 0 $!; sleep 1; taskset -cp $!
Output:
[1] 20494
pid 20494's current affinity list: 0,1
pid 20494's new affinity list: 0
pid 20494's current affinity list: 0
Now it's working. It seems that somehow, wine is resetting its affinity during startup. Maybe I should ask on wine forums? Because I don't think that it should work like that.
@Gusar
I tried schedtool, but it gives me the same results as taskset. It seems that it's doing basically the same thing, the only difference being that taskset is meant specifically for this while schedtool does this and few other things.
And as for cpu frequency scaling - yes, I restrict it for almost every game I run on wine. Games on wine tend to always use 100% cpu, so I set the "powersave" governor, as 800MHz seems to be enough for most games I play, and it helps keep my laptop's fans quiet.

.wine directory on different partition

ok here we go 8)
ive formatted a partition for just games and otherr things i want to run with wine/cedega.
i created a directory "Wine" on this partition and did a "ln -s /to/Wine/ .wine"
But when launching wine with a .exe then or also calling winecfg, it gives me the following error
Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\windows" is not accessible.
Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\windows\system32" is not accessible.
Warning: could not find DOS drive for current working directory '/home/detto', starting in the Windows directory.
so whats the best way i can achieve that all i do with wine (games,apps) and so on just stay on a diffren partition?
cheers,
detto

kth5 wrote:
mount -o bind <other>/.wine ~/.wine ?
rm -rf ~/.wine && ln -s <other>/.wine ~/.wine ?
mhh, this didnt work. wanted to install wine with some apps/games on brothers pc too but gave me same error.
the only way it did function was to remove ~/.wine and install an app, so that some important files and dirs were created in newly created ~/.wine.
then cp whole wine dir on seperate partition and link to .wine again
cheers,
detto

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