BCC will not start in Vista

[Barihawk]

Uh oh!

I just installed Vista 32 and started to reinstall various games.

Bridge Commander will start up, but can not connect to Gamespy and when I try to start a game (even on stock BC) it crashes.

I was really looking forward to kicking a little DD ass tonight, but is there any way I can salvage BC? I know there are people with Vista playing, so there's gotta be a fix.

Part of my problem might be that I installed it in Program Files. Where should I put it?

[MLeo]

Possibly, try running in Windowed Mode and see if a FireWall (or antivirus) program pops up.
Considering you aren't running Vista 64 it "shouldn't" matter, but anything other than Program Files will prevent that if this is the cause of your problems.
So, say, C:\Games\ would be a good alternative.

[Barihawk]

Moving it to I:/Games did nothing for me. I can screw with the menu but if I try to start a game or exit, it crashes.

[MLeo]

We are no longer talking about multiplayer?

[Barihawk]

This is the game in general. I can access all menus and mutators, but when I click "start game, quick battle," or any other button that actually puts you in game I get a CTD.

[MLeo]

How did you copy (or move) the game to I:\Games?

Also, is I:\ a normal hdd? Or some external drive?

[Barihawk]

Copied and pasted from an external. I only have a copy of the Activision folder because my original BC disk got crushed under a dresser years ago.

Do I need to adjust something in the registry? That sounds like what you are getting at.

I:/ is my primary hard drive. It just lost priority behind several other drives during the original install so it's I. Not any real problem.

[Barihawk]

So what I am starting to think is that the XP installer is incompatible with Vista, and I need a hard copy of the disk in order to initiate proper setup preparation for Vista, right?

In that case, s**t. Like I said, my original BC disk is in 3 pieces and I'll be damned before I spend eighty dollars on a new copy.

I hope it's not the case.


Worst case scenario, I'd install XP on an old s****y HD I have lying around and slave it into the system. But that would just be inconvenient . Weeks at least for the junk to arrive to do it.

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[JerichoKru]

have you tried the "run as an administrator" right click option?

[Barihawk]

Yes, I did.

And what the heck. I know for a fact I typed "crap and crappy" last night as I try not to curse.

Sorry Elminster.

[Barihawk]

I think to make it work, I'd have to have an original copy of the disk. What I need to do is run setup.exe in compatibility mode with administrative rights.

And I don't know anyone who has a disk.

I guess I will have to go with the extra HD situation.

[MLeo]

Another HD shouldn't matter. Compatibility Mode + Admin rights *ought* to do the trick.

But then again, it already ought to have worked out of the box.

[Barihawk]

Like I said, I didn't outright copy the original disk. I just backed up my installation on the disk. Smart at the time, dumb now.

The only setup.exe for BC I have is sitting shattered in a storage unit 400 miles from here.

[El]

It should work from that folder, but you need the original CD to run the game anyway!

Sounds like your copy got corrupted. I have 0 issues running BC on Vista.

[Barihawk]

Yeah, I'm a bad boy and found a no-cd patch.

So I guess I will have to dual boot or find a new copy of the game for cheap. Joy.

[WileyCoyote]

My computer is Vista, and I have BC working on it great.  I had some minor issues of it being installed within Program files, but my advise is to install it on the desktop.

[Barihawk]

Doesn't work on desktop.

[MLeo]

Why anyone would want to install it on the desktop is beyond me.

But anywhere other than Program Files, Users, Windows (or is it WINNT?) and subdirectories thereof, should prevent any compatibility problems.