Eraser bot on Windows 8.1

[lightbeacon]

Hi all

I'm new here. And I wonder has anyone got Eraser bot able to install on Windows 8.1?
If not - does anyone have it installed on their computers? If so - could you please provide me the installed files for download?
I don't have any comps where I can install it, so I wonder if someone already has it and can help me out.

Many many thanks in advance.
Take care and have a nice day.

[grieve[Q2C]]

Eraser 100

does the link work ? this should be all you require.

[lightbeacon]

Aug 15, 2014 10:54:51 GMT -5 grieve[Q2C] said:

Eraser 100

does the link work ? this should be all you require.

Dude... thanks a lot. It works!

Do you know of any launcher for this that will work? I suck a bit when it comes to console commands.
Would love to play team-play and CTF. Again - BIG thanks!

[grieve[Q2C]]

there were some frontends around, but i got none to work under win7/64.
you gotta run it with batch files and configs ...

[luzifer]

Have you tried Feathmatch Manager ( DMM2 ) yet. At least under Win7 64 bit it works. It has eraser on board with it.
Hope it works. Or you install a VM with WinXp. Does many deals for me. Like playing Worms and stuff. Its no big deal installing. Need help? Drop me a message and I will see what I can do.
But its easy with googling around a bit.

[knightmare]

You don't need batch files to launch Q2 mods when you can just edit shortcut target properties:

X:\Quake2\quake2.exe +set game eraser +exec eraser.cfg

The problem with running a bot launcher in a VM would be that it would launch Quake2 inside the VM as well, which probably wouldn't work, unless you had hardware virtualization support for your GPU.

For the Quick Start launcher included with the full Eraser version, I tried installing the missing system files it complains about, but it still won't work on Windows 7 (out of memory error- probably due to a numerical overflow).

[luzifer]

Try with VMware it should emulate your GPU. And its free and easy to use.

[knightmare]

You still need hardware device virtualization support for it to work. Here's a list of some CPUs/chipsets/motherboards that do:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IOMMU-supporting_hardware

[luzifer]

Thx for the list. Didn't know about that.
But I think if he uses WIN 8.1 his system should be advanced enough to do it.
At least I hope so.
I got a Vista based laptop and it does it quite well.

[knightmare]

Lots of new Intel CPUs don't have that feature due to their nutso product segmentation, such as the budget Celerons, Pentiums, Core i3's, and even the high-end K-series multiplier-unlocked processors (with the exception of the newest Devil's Canyon Haswell models).

[luzifer]

Does VM workstation need that as well ?
At least good to know so I can look for it when buying a new PC.