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June 29th, 2006, 11:07 AM
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Windows Vista, new video card... game just dies
So I recently installed the Windows Vista beta on my machine... also had to replace the video card, since the old one died on me... well, I tried to run Dom2 again just for fun, and when I run the exe the screen just goes blank and then the game exits (even after applying the 2.16 patch)... Any idea what might be causing this? My new video card is a PCIE nVidia 7300 series with 512MB of RAM (don't remember the board manufacturer, but that I found for the wondrously low price of $100US... perhaps there was a reason it was so cheap for such a card... 
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June 29th, 2006, 11:47 AM
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Re: Windows Vista, new video card
I haven't had that problem with Dominions II, but have had a similar thing occur with other software. It was suggested to me to update my video drivers to fix this, but I haven't actually gone through with doing it. (I haven't done it because I don't have a working CD-ROM drive at the moment to restore the original drivers if I botch the install.)
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June 29th, 2006, 12:54 PM
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Re: Windows Vista, new video card
1) AFAIK, the 7300 isn't that good.
2) Doesn't Dominions use OpenGL? Doesn't Microsoft hate OpenGL? I can see why they wouldn't hurry to include full OpenGL support in their beta version of Windows Vista. (its just a guess though)
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June 29th, 2006, 04:18 PM
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Re: Windows Vista, new video card
The 7300 sucks? Crap, I knew it couldn't be that cheap for no good reason
Dom2 uses OpenGL? Funny, I thought you could set it to use DirectX... I know there's a setting for DirectSound support at least... does it use OpenGL by default? Is there any way I can get into the config files and change that setting without actually running the game, because I can't even get the main menu to appear!
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June 29th, 2006, 05:44 PM
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Re: Windows Vista, new video card
Switch Dominions to DirectX?
No way to do that.
Dominions uses the SDL library which in turn uses OpenGL - with DirectX there wouldn't be any way to get it to run on Windows, Linux, Mac and Solaris.
Btw., why do you use a beta version of a product that might become usable with the first service pack in 2008?
slashdot: Windows Vista May Degrade OpenGL
http://slashdot.org/articles/05/08/06/177251.shtml
edit: spelling
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June 29th, 2006, 05:51 PM
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Re: Windows Vista, new video card
Window$ Vi$ta...nothing can stop the Micro$oft steamroller. 
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