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Re: winSPMBT and WinSPWW2 and VISTA

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Originally Posted by deansprague (Post 686759)

I have owned WINSPWW2 almost 2 years and have enjoyed it. After buying a new computer (w/vista)in February, I've been unable to get it to run, any ideas or steps I should do to get it to run on this high priced piece of hardware, thanks in advanced...

The only "support" for this non-supported O/S is what is printed in this thread from other Vista users. Read through all the messages (and check the similar one that is probably in MBT forum) and see what posts make sense to you as a Vista operator.

Cheers
Andy

Re: winSPMBT and WinSPWW2 and VISTA

I just checked around in the MBT forum and disabled the intro and that seems to have done the trick, for now, time will only tell. Now if I can find my copy of WinSPMBT that was lost in my move 8/08, Thanks.

Re: winSPMBT and WinSPWW2 and VISTA

The post by IMP just before your first post covers most of the steps needed to run with Vista

Don

Re: winSPMBT and WinSPWW2 and VISTA

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Originally Posted by Imp (Post 676000)

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Install spWW2 and spMBT in a separate Games folder, not in the Program Files (x86) if you're on 64 bit Vista, or the regular Program Files folder on vista 32.

This indeed solves problems with files going walkies, Vista is crazy in that it does a lot of stuff it thinks you would like so tracking whats going on is tricky.

Disable the intro

Right click on your WinSPMBT Icon and go to the Compatability tab & select Disable desktop composition.
This seems to help with colour problems & it only applies to the program, not a global change.

Also more people are probably running on widescreen monitors could this be causing full screen mode problems.

Another thing you can run programs in a seperate screen this might help people with colour probs.
Rather than alt tabing out of switch screens as think this causes it to check the colour pallete & it might store it in the page file.
Not sure mainly use it on XP

How do I disable the Intro movie? Thats where both SP MBT and SP WW2 crash for me

Re: winSPMBT and WinSPWW2 and VISTA

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How do I disable the Intro movie? Thats where both SP MBT and SP WW2 crash for me

On the slash screen where it says show into movie select no, its the first choice I think

Re: winSPMBT and WinSPWW2 and VISTA

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Originally Posted by Dreadnought (Post 709085)

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Originally Posted by Imp (Post 676000)

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Install spWW2 and spMBT in a separate Games folder, not in the Program Files (x86) if you're on 64 bit Vista, or the regular Program Files folder on vista 32.

How do I disable the Intro movie? Thats where both SP MBT and SP WW2 crash for me

See post number 36 in this thread.

Andy