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Vista & War in the Pacific - 1/23/2009 12:55:46 PM   
mikesankey


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Status: offline 		Hi
I have just got a new Dell XPS M1730 laptop running Vista Ultimate (32 bit)

War in the Pacific ran fine on my last laptop (an Alienware) which ran XP.

As it's my favourite game I have installed it on the new machine.

However now when I launch the game it gets about 2 seconds in and the an error comes up which says "Fatal Error:200". When I click OK in the message the program closes. I have tried running the programme in compatibility mode for XP but the same think happens.

Any ideas why this is happening and what I can do to fix it?

Mike
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RE: Vista & War in the Pacific - 1/23/2009 3:58:56 PM   
Terl


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Status: offline 		Try also running the game in administrator mode.  Right click on the shortcut and select the option from that menu.

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RE: Vista & War in the Pacific - 1/23/2009 4:41:06 PM   
mikesankey


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Status: offline 		Thanks for suggestion. I've tried it and got the same error result.

Mike

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RE: Vista & War in the Pacific - 1/23/2009 10:15:03 PM   
ChickenOfTheSea


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Status: offline 		Mike,
Try uninstalling and reinstall, but DO NOT install inside the "Program Files" directory. A directory like c:\Matrix Games will work just fine.

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RE: Vista & War in the Pacific - 1/23/2009 11:14:07 PM   
erstad

 

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Status: offline 		I asked about Vista support a month or two ago, and a number of people hopped in to say they were running successfully under Vista. I am now up and running on Vista, no observed problems. (I do have the software installed in the C: root, as one poster suggested)

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RE: Vista & War in the Pacific - 1/24/2009 9:27:52 AM   
sprior


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Status: offline 		I'm running it successfully on Vista after a vanilla install. A few points:

1. as stated above don't put it into Program Files. This folder has special security settings
2. do install/run as administrator
3. you have installed it and not just copied the folder across from your old machine?

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RE: Vista & War in the Pacific - 1/24/2009 1:39:02 PM   
mikesankey


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I am extremely grateful for all the suggestions.
As suggested I did a clean install from scratch into c:\matrix games\War in the Pacific. I then applied the latest patches and marked the program to run in XP compatability mode as administrator.
It ran 1st time!!
I have run a full turn without problems.
Many thanks.
Mike

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RE: Vista & War in the Pacific - 2/11/2009 5:18:37 PM   
Acme1970

 

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Status: offline 		I'm having similar problems with Vista 64bit, I get the screen that says that my files are being prepared but the next screen goes blank, I guess it would be the matrix games splash screens never come up, I've installed the game using Admin & run it using Admin & Windows XP comp mode, I've also installed the 1804 Comp patch, Opart III, John Tiller's Campaign Series & GG World at War all work fine

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RE: Vista & War in the Pacific - 2/11/2009 5:52:14 PM   
rtrapasso


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ORIGINAL: Acme1970

I'm having similar problems with Vista 64bit, I get the screen that says that my files are being prepared but the next screen goes blank, I guess it would be the matrix games splash screens never come up, I've installed the game using Admin & run it using Admin & Windows XP comp mode, I've also installed the 1804 Comp patch, Opart III, John Tiller's Campaign Series & GG World at War all work fine

Where did you install the files to??

i don't think anyone has gotten WITP to work unless they've installed it to the default location.

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RE: Vista & War in the Pacific - 2/12/2009 3:12:24 AM   
LargeSlowTarget


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Status: offline 		Runs fine on my Vista 32 machine, although I have not used the default location. I have even installed the game on a different partition and different path (D:\Games\MatrixGames\WitP Stock).  However, the first start scared me, since I got graphic issues. Installing the latest DirectX9.0c did solve this problem (did solve launch issues with other games as well). It appears that DirectX10 is not fully downward compatible with DirectX9, which can lead to issues with games made for DirectX9.

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RE: Vista & War in the Pacific - 2/12/2009 3:39:01 AM   
Acme1970

 

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Status: offline 		I got it to work, Turns out it wasn't Vista at all, It was Windows Media Player, It didn't wanna play the intro videos, So i renamed the video folder in both WitP & Uncommon Valor to "OLDVIDEO" & the game loaded up

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