Star Trek Armada II: Fleet Operations

Fleet Operations => Technical Stuff => Topic started by: redmanmark86 on October 18, 2006, 04:07:50 PM

Title: Vista Support?
Post by: redmanmark86 on October 18, 2006, 04:07:50 PM

i was just wondering if you plan on supporting VISTA at any point, i have tested stock STA2 on vista and it installs and works fine, but FO crashes on the install, when the Audio decoder comes up it crashes on the "Borg.wav" saying its already in use..
if i copy and paste FO from my XP Partition i get an isntant crash before its even started from vista.

Title: Vista Support?
Post by: DOCa Cola on October 18, 2006, 05:07:48 PM

yes, i am working on vista support. the loader seems fine in the newest dev build. the problem with the decoder is known and being worked on.

Title: Vista Support?
Post by: redmanmark86 on October 19, 2006, 12:24:12 AM

any idea why the game doesn't work on a copy and paste, i got the installation to finish by forcing the decoder to end at the stuck point, then the install continued on as normal, i copy and pasted what was missing after but still an instant crash, oh and im using build 5744 also known as RC2, which is very stable to be honest

Title: Vista Support?
Post by: DOCa Cola on October 19, 2006, 08:43:00 AM

i have no idea yet as i had not yet the chance to run a debug session on rc2

Title: Vista Support?
Post by: 8_of_11 on October 19, 2006, 08:08:10 PM

Good thing I'm not planning on upgrading my computer 'till Halo 3 comes out for PC (not 2, 3). Or RE4

Title: Vista Support?
Post by: cbosdell on December 17, 2006, 11:10:37 AM

i hope there is a vista patch or something soon as for me the game doesn't work at all on vista.

i go to start fleet ops and get the error:

Armada 2: Armada2.tgt - Application Error
The instruction at 0x00174a3f referenced memory at 0x00000000. The memory could not be read.

Click on OK to terminate the program

I've tried reinstalling and have done this on a fresh Vista Ultimate RTM install. I would try making the armada2.tgt file run in xpsp2 compatiblity mode as it really is an .exe renamed but you can only make .exe files run in xp compatibilty mode. :(

Title: Vista Support?
Post by: 8_of_11 on December 22, 2006, 03:28:22 AM

That's a bummer but it sounds like they're fixing it. Also, there'd be a spam bot in the technical thread's foremost thread if someone didn't post here, and I can't stand 'em.

Title: Vista Support?
Post by: cbosdell on December 22, 2006, 04:35:27 AM

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That's a bummer but it sounds like they're fixing it. Also, there'd be a spam bot in the technical thread's foremost thread if someone didn't post here, and I can't stand 'em.

yeah. i wish there'd be a patch for the current fleet ops v3 beta everyone has so i can play it some more. but i'm sure it'll be fixed by the next big release.

Title: Vista Support?
Post by: DOCa Cola on December 22, 2006, 01:48:45 PM

no worries, the current development build including the decoder now works without any issues under vista rc2 as far as i can see.
also we have advanced armada to be compatible with new vista's uac and of course the new gamebrowser.

Title: Vista Support?
Post by: cbosdell on December 26, 2006, 12:50:47 AM

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thats great news. :D

thanks!

Title: Vista Support?
Post by: ewm90 on December 26, 2006, 03:56:40 AM

What about a pach that will let Bata2 work in vista for those how mite wont to play it.

Mirosoft Vista (http://bridgecommander.3dactionplanet.gamespy.com/phpBB/images/smiles/vb_m1.gif) You meen MAC OSX. all most all fichers stoling from MAC grrr. Well sorry had to vent!

Title: Vista Support?
Post by: RedShirt on December 26, 2006, 07:36:00 PM

Ah, a patch. . . which might as well contain some extra pre-release content. . .

Title: Vista Support?
Post by: DOCa Cola on December 27, 2006, 11:25:41 AM

no further patch is currently planned for 3 PR

Title: Vista Support?
Post by: RedShirt on December 27, 2006, 06:26:46 PM

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no further patch is currently planned for 3 PR

Does that mean that v3 full is coming out soon? :D

Title: Vista Support?
Post by: DOCa Cola on December 28, 2006, 12:45:03 AM

as soon as possible ;)

Title: Vista Support?
Post by: RedShirt on December 28, 2006, 06:53:11 PM

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as soon as possible ;)

Isn't it vaguely possible that it may come out right now? :D

Title: Vista Support?
Post by: cbosdell on December 30, 2006, 12:35:04 AM

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Isn't it vaguely possible that it may come out right now? :D

i wish. i miss playing fleet ops. :(

Title: Vista Support?
Post by: apocalypse on March 02, 2007, 09:10:14 PM

i really cant wait for the fleetops to b compatible with windows Vista

Title: Vista Support?
Post by: ColdDarkParanoia on March 05, 2007, 10:18:43 PM

OOOooooO antisipation!! can't wait!

Title: Vista Support?
Post by: DOCa Cola on March 07, 2007, 10:08:21 AM

i read recently that only about 1% of all computers worldwide run vista now and 83% still xp - you are a minority :D

Title: Vista Support?
Post by: Smoerebroed on March 07, 2007, 04:16:06 PM

or a "volunteer" for M$

Title: Vista Support?
Post by: apocalypse on March 08, 2007, 10:01:47 AM

yup im a minority 4 now but Vista will become more popular now its released (esp wen computers come with it already installed) but will fleetops become compatible with Vista or not

Title: Vista Support?
Post by: DOCa Cola on March 08, 2007, 10:16:55 AM

yes, of course. the development version runs fine on vista. there won't be a patch for 3pr but the final version 3.0 is fully vista compatible