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    Games for Windows Live(Windows 7) on the GT70.

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by MJBarnes, Jun 6, 2012.

  1. MJBarnes

    MJBarnes Notebook Geek

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    Hello, all.

    I posted this on the games forum, but I am guessing it may be specific to the MSI series since they work fine on my Gateway PC.

    Hello, all.

    Prior to my getting a new MSI GT70 with Windows 7, I was able to log in to Games for Windows Live without any issues (Flatout 2, Batman, Dirt 2, etc). However, with my new MSI Windows 7 PC, I continue to get an error:

    The profile could not be signed in to Live. There may be a network problem or the Windows Live ID service may not be available.

    I can log in to my xbox fine and if i go to xbox.com, I can also log in.

    Does anyone know of some settings on the PC that I may need to change in order to use this feature? Anything Windows 7 specific?

    Thanks.
     
    MJBarnes, Jun 6, 2012
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    holliday777 Notebook Evangelist

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    I don't know if this applies to you. My wife has a MSI GE60 and mistakenly set up her network settings as "Public" instead of "Home" and it configured her firewall settings where she couldn't log into her Gamefly account...etc. After I put everything back the way it was supposed to be, she was able to log in fine.

    Just a thought...hopefully you can find a solution that works....
     
    holliday777, Jun 6, 2012
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  3. MJBarnes

    MJBarnes Notebook Geek

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    Thanks for the suggestion. I checked and it says that it is a home network.

    Does anyone play any Games for Windows live on their GT series? Does it work? From what I understand, there is no way to save games, etc when not logged in to Xbox live!

    Thanks.
     
    MJBarnes, Jun 6, 2012
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  4. Orta64

    Orta64 Notebook Enthusiast

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    As far as I know, somebody told me that there's a problem with the Qualcomm drivers on the GT70/60 so you should also have some problems logging into messenger like myself and also GFWL, we'll have to wait until there's some fix to this from MS or Qualcomm :S
     
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  5. MJBarnes

    MJBarnes Notebook Geek

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    Do you know which Qualcomm drivers? I went through the device manager and did not see anything from Qualcomm.

    Has anyone successfully been able to log in to Windows Live?

    Thanks.
     
    MJBarnes, Jun 7, 2012
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    Orta64 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Here it's the answer I got on the MSI Lounge.

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/8569076-post526.html
     
    Orta64, Jun 7, 2012
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    Gimik Newbie

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    It's not a driver, it's the Qualcomm Atheros software. Uninstall it from it's folder under Start - All Programs. That worked for me.
     
    Gimik, Jun 30, 2012
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    Isnt the Atheros software required for networking purposes?
     
    MJBarnes, Jun 30, 2012
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    Orta64 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Holy S..!!!! That worked for me =). Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
     
    Orta64, Jun 30, 2012
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  10. KjGarly

    KjGarly Notebook Guru

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    Uninstalling it stops your Ethernet connection from working, right? And Windows won't find and install a driver for Ethernet (im with Virgin Media and the wireless on their Super Hub is shocking so I need to use a wired connection)
     
    KjGarly, Jul 2, 2012
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    There's a new driver for Qualcomm on MSi's driver page which now solves the problem connecting to GFWL. Installed and had no problem signing in.
     
    KjGarly, Jul 3, 2012
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    Please post a link to the driver, if possible. Thanks.
     
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    I've been tracking this same issue with my new GT70, and a user on another forum said they called MSI support and MSI sent them a beta driver that was under 1MB - just a driver for the ethernet without the whole software package, and that it solved the problem for them.

    It's outside their phone support hours now so I sent a ticket in on their website. I'm assuming they will not be available tomorrow but I will try anyway, and if all else fails I can call them thursday.

    I'll try the beta lan bigfoot package linked above here, but I was not impressed with the software at all (someone on the forum of the vendor that makes the NIC and the software posted an image showing a terrible memory leak of that software package - it was using 2 GB of memory, just for a trumped up ethernet driver.

    So assuming I get access to that smaller beta driver I'd be happy to share it with folks here, and if anyone has a good hosting solution for it I will certainly send it their way. Anything I can do to keep other people from spending hours dealing with this like I have...
     
    Lokust, Jul 3, 2012
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  15. Lokust

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    MSI has provided me the barebones driver for the E2200 NIC, no qualcomm software at all. I do not appear to be able to upload it here, but I would be happy to provide it to any who need it. If you would like this file, email a request to: nathan phoenix at att dot net (no spaces)
     
    Lokust, Jul 5, 2012
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  16. MJBarnes

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    Has anyone had success with either using the BETA Bigfoot LAN driver or the barebones E2200 Nic driver?

    If so, did you still need to make any port changes? Or did that do the trick?

    Thanks much.
     
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    I installed the Beta driver and GFWL works and Lokust has emailed me the barebones driver which I'll install tomorrow after work.
     
    KjGarly, Jul 6, 2012
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    To follow up on my previous post, I uninstalled Qualcomm and tried installing whatever Lokust sent me but it wouldn't accept the files as Drivers. Re-installed Qualcomm.
     
    KjGarly, Jul 8, 2012
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    Has anyone tried this with Windows 8? Or does the updated BETA driver only function with Windows 7?

    Thanks.

    I just got a new GT60 with the 680M and am having the same issue. I would have hoped 6 months later they would have found a fix for this by now or updated the Qualcomm drivers in the stock machine.
     
    MJBarnes, Mar 4, 2013
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