winSPMBT and WinSPWW2 and VISTA

[Charles22]

I have a ATI Radeon 4850 with a Vista home premium. I tried full screen 1600X1280, and this ocurred: lpDD->SetDisplayMode() failed, code 80004001

and also:
Directdraw could not be intialized error code 80004001.

The next thing I tried was full screen but at the next lower setting, and it worked. The windows mode works as well, but it doesn't seem preferable. One problem I have, in any case, is that while I can read the bottom line of data, though it being very small, the same sized data on the top (the log) is VERY difficult to make out, unlike on my old XP system and it's monitor. The top line has a poor choice of colors, that being red and white, where the red is smearing somewhat into the white letters. There may be something I can do on my end (hopefully not as bad as a new monitor) though. I have a HDTV 720p generic monitor btw.

One other thing that concerns me, because I cannot see why my setup isn't handling the top resolution, and that is that as far as I know 1600X1280 isn't a valid monitor resolution, which is what the game provides. I would think it should be 1600X1200 instead. Perhaps it's actually the correct resolution and it's just mis-typed?

[Dick131]

The problem I am having with Vista is that I am unable to start a PBEM game. I can select my orbat and save it to a game name in a PBEM location.

However, when I go to the PBEM folder, the saved SpEml files are not there.

I assume they are saved somewhere, as the game name stays in the PBEM screen.

[Mobhack]

Originally Posted by Dick131

The problem I am having with Vista is that I am unable to start a PBEM game. I can select my orbat and save it to a game name in a PBEM location.

However, when I go to the PBEM folder, the saved SpEml files are not there.

I assume they are saved somewhere, as the game name stays in the PBEM screen.

Because Vista - depending on how you set it up, it seems - will store user files in some rather strange places.

Why - I have no idea. Vista is not a supported operating system for our games, I do not have it and have no plans whatsoever to get it. You'll have to read your Windows help documentation.

Try a search of the entire hard disk on speml*.* to see if you can find where the O/S squirreled them away.

Cheers
Andy