DW works on Vista

BlackDeath · 01-31-07, 04:39 PM

Haven't seen a post on this topic for DW yet so I thought I'd share.

My experience only but I thought you might want to know DW seems to install and run fine on Windows Vista. This is without having to turn UAC off or any other changes. Patch 1.04 also seems to go on without a problem.

Sub Command also installs fine but the first time you run it, run it as administrator as it seems to need to do something with the CDROM. Otherwise, subcommand.exe makes an appearance on Task Manager then closes itself. Subsequent starts are OK without elevating privileges. The official Sub Command patches also need to be run as administrator to overwrite files in the installation directories.

688(I) should also install fine. Official patches are manually copied so no problems there (I run with the patched RenderWare files). However, if you ever need to reinstall, then make sure EAREMOVE.EXE is manually deleted from C:\Windows\System32 first - the uninstaller doesn't seem to get rid of this. If you don't, the installer will fail with "ERROR, copying files" on reinstallation.

Before anyone asks, no, I haven't tried the above with LWAMI or SCXII/SCXIIc.

Hope this helps somebody somewhere sometime.

Cheers.

01-31-07, 04:39 PM	#1
BlackDeath Nub Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 4 Downloads: 51 Uploads: 0	DW works on Vista Haven't seen a post on this topic for DW yet so I thought I'd share. My experience only but I thought you might want to know DW seems to install and run fine on Windows Vista. This is without having to turn UAC off or any other changes. Patch 1.04 also seems to go on without a problem. Sub Command also installs fine but the first time you run it, run it as administrator as it seems to need to do something with the CDROM. Otherwise, subcommand.exe makes an appearance on Task Manager then closes itself. Subsequent starts are OK without elevating privileges. The official Sub Command patches also need to be run as administrator to overwrite files in the installation directories. 688(I) should also install fine. Official patches are manually copied so no problems there (I run with the patched RenderWare files). However, if you ever need to reinstall, then make sure EAREMOVE.EXE is manually deleted from C:\Windows\System32 first - the uninstaller doesn't seem to get rid of this. If you don't, the installer will fail with "ERROR, copying files" on reinstallation. Before anyone asks, no, I haven't tried the above with LWAMI or SCXII/SCXIIc. Hope this helps somebody somewhere sometime. Cheers.