BlitzPlus and Vista

As I was reading through the BlitzPlus manual, I noticed that it uses DirectPlay and DirectShow. Later, I read that these two APIs are going to be removed by Microsoft. Vista no longer supports them. I like programming with BlitzPlus, and I don't want it to stop working.

My question is, will BlitzPlus be changed according to the changes made to Windows?

Also, I plan on purchasing Blitz3D, but Microsoft plans giving up on DirectX 9 in the future. Will Blitz3D support DX10 when the need arises?

DirectShow is now part of Windows SDK instead of DirectX, but Microsoft did not remove it.
I'm not sure, but I think MS has even improved it's performance for Windows Vista.

I don't know much about DirectPlay, but maybe you could use external libraries for networking.


No!


No! :P

what i can tell it works in vista..

Havent messed with the gfx mode yet :D

Image masking in BlitzPlus doesn't work correctly with Vista in some cases, but you can work around it...

http://www.blitzmax.com/Community/posts.php?topic=68674

Hmm. I'm finding the IDE (typing) and some of my apps are running like mud in Vista - I'm talking 1fps in some of the worse cases.

Anyone else had this in Vista, before I go inspecting & updating all my drivers (which should be up to date anyway)?

Yeah I have a game that runs with like 11 FPS, and it certainly shouldn't. Its just drawing 100 numbers to the screen, nothing complicated.

I'm glad I found this thread because I don't really know what to do about it.