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

[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