Installation problems in vista...

posted on April 15th, 2009, 5:09 pm

Ok, so stock A2 and FO 3.0 play fine in Vista x86 and x64.  However, I have yet to get anything past that to play.  All I get is the standard crash after starting the game up.  I think I've browsed every topic started with vista problems so far and the only thing I can find is some of you guys mentioned a fixed executable for the 2nd beta of FO.  I can't find a link to it to even try it though.

posted on April 15th, 2009, 6:04 pm

hmm thats odd because im using vista 32 bit myself and never had problems since v.3 preview. i dont think that vista is the problem. are you sure youve the right graphic driver and stuff. have you tried to play another game?

posted on April 15th, 2009, 6:10 pm

LOL....yes.  Everything is setup correct.  I've tried this on multiple vista machines and the same error occurs.  When I get home from work I can post it. 

posted on April 15th, 2009, 6:33 pm

yeah i know sounded a little funny but like i said im using vista as well an never had a prob with it. dont know but maybe an error with the 64 bit version?

posted on April 15th, 2009, 6:38 pm

No its cool, I understand.  Its the same error on 32 and 64 bit versions.  I've also tried the ultimate and home premium versions.  I've read that other people have had the same problem, but they used a fixed executable to fix it.  I can't find a link to it and even if I did....it was from beta 2.  Or maye my mind is failing me as I read every post I could find with the word vista in it. lol

posted on April 15th, 2009, 6:43 pm

k. there was also an prob in the preview version and i had probs was well in vanilla. but since 3.0 it works just fine

posted on April 15th, 2009, 7:21 pm

Any other ideas?  Anyone?

posted on April 16th, 2009, 11:27 am

yea, it would be good to know the exact error message a screenshot would do, too. don't use patches for older versions on fleet operations 3.0. don't use anything that was meant for 3.0 pr either. just install 3.0 and it's latest patch (currently 3.0.5a) from the download section

posted on April 16th, 2009, 1:41 pm

Dunno, I have it on vista and it works fine with me.

posted on April 16th, 2009, 1:45 pm

vista should not be the problem here as i am using it with vista x64 myself