Running 1.10 or even 1.2x on Vista beta 2

June 6, 2006 6:03 AM from

Hi all, I am unable to get GalCiv2 running on beta 2. debug.err reports that it is unable to create the window and then the screen

, and then I'm left with a black 800x600 'block' on my 1400x1050 screen

Any ideas? Theres another Vista beta tester that is unable to get the current or beta builds working on beta 2 as well. Cheers, Glen

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Reply #1 June 6, 2006 8:06 AM from

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Check your drivers. The devs already have GC2 itself running fine on Vista, but many Vista drivers are not mature enough yet to support games properly.

Reply #2 June 6, 2006 8:18 AM from

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I've got an ATI 9600 and I've tried using the ATI beta drivers and the Microsoft supplied WDDM drivers, both with no success - the same debug.err messages. Have the devs tried GC2 with ATI cards? I'm willing to try a couple of builds if they have them?

Note that theres also a number of issues with SDC, GC2 (launcher etc) reported by MS' Vista Application Compatibility and App Verifier products. The various programs show SDC and GC2 disregarding Vista's security requirements for registry and ntfs - a minor issue for me really

Cheers, Glen

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