Vista Test

Just loaded up the final release of Vista Ultimate. So far, I've tested all of the samples from Blitz3D. They all work!

Now for some BlitzMax testing.

BlitzMax needs to be run as administrator in order to compile anything.

Right click (on MaxIDE) -> properties -> advanced -> Run as administrator.

I will soon test Blitz3D on one of the most potent systems in the world.

The excitement is virtually crushing my massive brain.

puki: You'll do exactly what I did; bought a powerful PC and shortly realised that the majority of eye-candy games weren't actually much fun to play.

Only F.E.A.R. and Half Life 2 have been enjoyable, thus far.

I like gothic 3, Medieval 2 and NWN2 only two of those have decent graphics though

Wow, who would have thought a Windows Operating System would run software compiled for a Windows Operating System.

Fun Nick:

Got it. That's sarcasm right?

My people will be keeping an eye on you.

:)

I'm sure that those who couldn't play their Win9x games anymore on 2000/XP weren't holding their breath. :-?

To get around this create a file called MaxIDE.exe.manifest in the base BlitzMax folder and add the following xml into the manifest file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0">
  <trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3">
    <security>
      <requestedPrivileges>
        <requestedExecutionLevel level="asInvoker" uiAccess="false"/>
      </requestedPrivileges>
    </security>
  </trustInfo>
</assembly>

This should provide enough privileges to do stuff (quick test but not much more).

More info available here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnlong/html/AccProtVista.asp

Edit: Believe it may also relate to this topic in the bugbin: http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=65034

Matt: The what now?

vinylpusher,

I was having some issues initially synchronising (memory errors). It should allow BRL to provide a solution to get around setting the program to run as Admin (I think??). The Microsoft link provides a bit more detail - hopefully it should help Mark in some way.

That's interesting - I can play every Win9x game I've ever wanted on Win2000/XP. I'm only -just- starting to have that problem with Vista.

Shame, shame, shame!!

I've come across a couple of Windows games that won't work on XP, most noticably Discworld Noir (a point-and-click adventure game). I ended up running a virtualized Windows 98 inside VMWare to be able to play it on my PC.

You could also just undisable the proper administrator account and use that. Gets rid of all those warning about running this-that-and-what-not.

Leiden: that's disabled for a reason, of course. One of windows' big shortcomings and vulnerabilities is thanks to the default settings of too much permissions for people that don't need them. The more conservative settings of Vista's non-administrative accounts will greatly diminish windows surceptibility to spyware and the likes.

xlsior: thats fine and all for you average windows user, but it soon gets annoying if you're more of a power user.

What's a power user? You'd think a power user would appreciate the more restrictive/linux-like behavior. What better way to demonstrate your "power" by knowing what switches to throw and settings to set to accomplish what a merely average windows user cannot.

What you just said was totally irrelevant. Read it again a few times.