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vista - 6/27/2008 12:56:25 AM

tanksone

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Hi, I've been lurking here for a while. With WitP AE and BTR still not out and the B-Day around the corner I'm look for a new game. I'm guessing this has been asked before but I guess I missed it. Will this game work with Vista.

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RE: vista - 6/27/2008 1:06:19 AM

acarney

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I'm running Vista Ultimate, and have only problem: Think twice before running HCE w. large fonts. You will have trouble reading some of the messages, because they are geared for small fonts. Doubt that this is OS-specific.

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RE: vista - 6/27/2008 6:02:15 AM

Warhorse64

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Running 32-bit Vista Ultimate, works fine or me.

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RE: vista - 6/27/2008 7:44:55 AM

TonyE

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acarney, http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?autocom=downloads&showfile=228 is your friend if you run with large fonts. Run it to clear the window size settings, then start the game, you should have much better results.

tanksome, I even develop the game on Vista 32-bit. The scenario editor being a 16-bit application will not run on Vista-64 without an emulator but everything else will work (and it all works on 32-bit Vista).

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RE: vista - 7/4/2008 9:14:44 PM

NefariousKoel

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Yep, and Aero seems to work with it too. Pretty HCE.

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RE: vista - 7/7/2008 2:44:32 AM

Nite92

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quote:

ORIGINAL: TonyE

acarney, http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?autocom=downloads&showfile=228�is your friend if you run with large fonts.� Run it to clear the window size settings, then start the game, you should have much better results.

tanksome, I even develop the game on Vista 32-bit.� The scenario editor being a 16-bit application will not run on Vista-64 without an emulator but everything else will work (and it all works on 32-bit Vista).

Which emulator do you use with Vista 64? My new laptop comes with it, and I'm fine with the GE, but like you said the SE doesn't play. I have little to no idea about what I need when we start talking about emulators.

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RE: vista - 7/7/2008 11:20:13 PM

TonyE

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I happen to run VMWare Workstation (http://www.vmware.com/products/ws/) but if all you are doing is running the SE, that's tremendous overkill. If you manage to get a legal VM from someone, you can use VMware's Player (http://www.vmware.com/products/player/) but the legal part there is tough since you can't create a new virtual machine with VMWare player (but someone could send you a Linux VM and you install Windows over it, I leave that ethics discussion for others). What you end up doing with VMWare is creating a virtual computer within your computer and installing another copy of Windows on that virtual computer (32-bit Vista or XP or...), then run the SE on that.

Since I use VMWare I'm not well versed in the Vista mumbo jumbo in hopes of using a free copy of Virtual PC. I know some other HC players use Virtual PC but I don't know the related legal/ethical answers but if you have Vista Ultimate or Enterprise you stand a good chance of keeping everyone happy :) http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2006/3/3/3052

And before someone gets to it, yes, there is a good chance the SE will move into the late 1990s at some point, it just isn't going to be two or three weeks from now.

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RE: vista - 7/8/2008 8:45:13 AM

Stalintc

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I run Vista 64 and to use the SE I install a copy of XP into a Microsoft Virtual PC session.

It costs nothing as long as you have a valid Windows licence and you can get it here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=04d26402-3199-48a3-afa2-2dc0b40a73b6&DisplayLang=en

Very useful tool, there is also a Service Pack 1 availalbe for it, which would be worth downloading too.

Not as powerful as VMware, but it does the job if you just want to use the Scenario Editor.

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