Warning: VISTA-SP1 and WinSP:WW2/MBT problems!

[TheDesertFox]

Don,

I disabled just the Intro. Sound runs perfectly well.

Also, I now have reinstalled Servicepack 1 on both PC 1 and 2 and also there both WinSP:WW2/MBT run perfectly well in windowed mode (1600x1200 on PC 1, 1280x800 on PC 2 and 1280x1024 on PC 3). Drivers are 169.25 for both Nvidia cards on PC 1 and 3 and 8.2 for the ATI on PC 2.

Soundcards are Soundblaster X-Fi on PC 1, Realtek Onboard on PC 2 and Soundblaster Audigy on PC 3.

Everything seems to be fine now, except the Intro which kills the games on all PCs when Vista Servicepack 1 is installed.

cheers

Helge

[RobertWink]

woo, thanks guys!

got me up and running again on my Notebook.. I assume it will work the same at home! excellent! I was going crazy!

[Horses]

Dear all,

yesterday I installed Vista including SP1 and all works fine except WinSP:WW2/MBT.
My Machine is Intel-based, Nvidia 8800GTS with Drivers 169.25. I have both CD-Versions of WinSP:WW2/MBT and wish to run them under 1280x1024 (=native solution)in windowed mode (as in Windows xp).
I'm very annoyed, because no "solution" works. Disabling the intro,changing to fullscreen,changing settings in the Compatability tab doesn't work. The Game options screen opens, but when I press "Play WinSPww2" nothing happens now. At first after a fresh install of WinSPww2 it started but the menue was stretched and unreadable.

Looking forward to any help to run these great games in Vista.

@TheDesertfox
Can you post your Nvidia driver settings please ?

[TheDesertFox]

Horses said:

@TheDesertfox
Can you post your Nvidia driver settings please ?

Hi,

sorry, no special settings. I use the default settings and haven´t changed anything since.

Which Intel chipset do you have ? My both i965 and i945 based Mobos work fine as you can read above.

Do you use the newer 512MB based 8800 GTS (G92 chip) or the older 640MB version (G90 chip)?

You mentioned the menu stretched. Do you use a widescreen monitor (native 1280x800 or 1440x900 or 1680x1050) ?

BTW: I now have the beta 169.44 drivers installed and they work well on my machines as did the 169.25 before. Also the new 8.3 ATI drivers aren´t causing any problems for me on the notebook.

cheers

[TheDesertFox]

Gentlemen,

For those of you who can´t get the game running at all due to whatever reason on your Vista-SP1 machines this info might be helpfull:

On my Vista 64 machine (4gig RAM) I run several Virtual PCs (XP, Server 2003, Server 2008, Vista etc.) using MS Virtual PC 2007 (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...c/default.mspx).

One of these Virtual PCs is running Vista 32 Ultimate with SP1 integrated. Interestingly, if I try to start WinSP:WW2 with Intro enabled inside the virtual PC it runs flawless! No hang, no nothing.

As far as I know in each of these Virtual PCs the following hardware is emulated:

Virtual PC emulates a 32-bit Intel Pentium II processor (but virtualizes the host processor on Windows versions) with an Intel 440BX chipset, a standard SVGA VESA graphics card (S3 Trio 64 PCI with 4 MB Video RAM, adjustable in later versions up to 16 MB), a system BIOS from American Megatrends (AMI), a Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 ISA PnP (native Vista audio when Vista acts as host and guest), and a DEC 21041 (DEC 21140 in newer versions) Ethernet network card.

So using Virtual PC 2007 might be a possibility to get the game running if it refuses to work in the native environment. I think it is worth a try.

cheers

Helge

[Wdll]

Wouldn't you need a seperate licence for the Vista installed in the VPC?
Also, how can you change the video ram?

[TheDesertFox]

Hi,

no, with Ultimate you are allowed to use the same licence on your native and your VPC. With Enterprise you are allowed to use up to four VPCs with the same licence on one machine.

In fact the VPC on my Vista64 rig is the same licence as my notebook.

I dunno about Home Premium, but anyways you can install XP as a VPC on that machine (if you have a licence handy).

To change VRAM from the default setting to the max of 16megs you can edit the *.vmc file and adapt these lines:

<video_adapter>
<vram_size type="integer">128</vram_size>
</video_adapter>

That will give you 16megs of VRAM, which isn´t necessary for WinSP but might be handy for other apps.

cheers