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Title: about vista
Post by: vioking on November 23, 2007, 03:28:55 AM

im buying a new cpu and i was wondering if BC works on vista or do i need xp i want to add alot of mods and i want vista for the new games but this game is my fav game and i dont know how to have 2 OS on one cpu and i dont have the money for 2 so should i get xp or should i get vista

Title: Re: about vista
Post by: lint on November 23, 2007, 07:05:45 AM

Im still using XP, but im sure there are a few people on BCC that use Vista,
So my best guess is that you can play it, but im not too sure if they encounted any bugs as a result of it..

Title: Re: about vista
Post by: MLeo on November 23, 2007, 07:22:43 AM

Mods don't matter. If mods work in BC, then mods work in BC regardless of the OS on which BC runs.

I believe there are a couple of people who run BC on Vista.
No problems encounterd, a friend of mine runs Vista, and he hasn't found any problems, not even under Vista 64, you know, in the early days with driver problems.

Title: Re: about vista
Post by: El on November 23, 2007, 08:09:26 AM

I've found some problems with the MPE crashing but thats all so far.

Title: Re: about vista
Post by: Nighthawk on November 23, 2007, 11:00:14 AM

AFAIK, if you have the right drivers for your hardware and Vista is correctly installed, you shouldn't have problems.
the most common problems you might have is a GFX driver that vista doesn't support, but they might have fixed that by now

Title: Re: about vista
Post by: Mario on November 23, 2007, 11:40:41 AM

BC or MPE have no issues with Windows Vista it's perfectly safe ;)

Title: Re: about vista
Post by: tiqhud on November 23, 2007, 12:07:55 PM

Quote from: USS Sovereign on November 23, 2007, 11:40:41 AM

BC or MPE have no issues with Windows Vista it's perfectly safe ;)

Good since, it looks like things are moving that way, and we're going to have to go to Vista one day.

Title: Re: about vista
Post by: El on November 23, 2007, 03:51:07 PM

Quote from: USS Sovereign on November 23, 2007, 11:40:41 AM

BC or MPE have no issues with Windows Vista it's perfectly safe ;)

Interesting, I wonder why my MPE crashes when I load a HP (loads the model fine)..

Title: Re: about vista
Post by: Nighthawk on November 23, 2007, 03:59:54 PM

Quote from: Elminster on November 23, 2007, 03:51:07 PM

Interesting, I wonder why my MPE crashes when I load a HP (loads the model fine)..

that proves that Vista has no issues with the engine.
try loading the same model, but another HP. most likely the file is ambiguous in some part.
usually, crashing the MPE happens when BC fails and affects directX. you get a DirectX error when you load BC and MPE gives a renderer error.
restarting should fix it.

Title: Re: about vista
Post by: El on November 23, 2007, 04:02:14 PM

Lol, yeah I know all that. It crashes with any HP. Ithink its something to do with the way vista handles folder browsing that the MPE doesn't like....

Edit: Tut tut, schoolboy error. App.py and GlobalPropertyTemplates.py need to be in the same directory as ModelPropertyEditor_s.exe.

Title: Re: about vista
Post by: Mario on November 23, 2007, 08:49:53 PM

Quote from: Elminster on November 23, 2007, 04:02:14 PM

Lol, yeah I know all that. It crashes with any HP. Ithink its something to do with the way vista handles folder browsing that the MPE doesn't like....

Edit: Tut tut, schoolboy error. App.py and GlobalPropertyTemplates.py need to be in the same directory as ModelPropertyEditor_s.exe.

It happens...

I've upgraded to Vista and everything runs smoothly.