Helbreath on Windows Vista X86

Yahiko · Post by **Yahiko** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 6:31 pm

Hi All,

I was wondering, has anyone managed to run Helbreath on a machine running Windows Vista? As far as i know, Microsoft decided to drop all backwards compatibility with any directx version before 9.0. I was not able to run a HB client on my Vista machine (It boots, but DC's when moving monsters on screen ... Monsters not moving also. And unable to switch maps).

So if you managed to do so, could you please tell me how?

Thanks
Yahiko

bone-you · Post by **bone-you** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 3:53 am

Yea. I ran HBx off my vista ultimate and got in game on it too. Seems to work fine. Didn't seem to glitch for me at all.

Yahiko · Post by **Yahiko** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 8:24 am

bone-you wrote: Yea. I ran HBx off my vista ultimate and got in game on it too. Seems to work fine. Didn't seem to glitch for me at all.

Weird, i've tried it on a Vista Business machine. Firewall not enabled and logged in as Administrator.

Did you actually tried to kill monsters?

bone-you · Post by **bone-you** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 10:07 am

Yahiko wrote:
bone-you wrote: Yea. I ran HBx off my vista ultimate and got in game on it too. Seems to work fine. Didn't seem to glitch for me at all.
Weird, i've tried it on a Vista Business machine. Firewall not enabled and logged in as Administrator. Did you actually tried to kill monsters?

Not really xD but everything else works on it. Games and apps alike.

Sprint · Post by **Sprint** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 4:07 pm

shouldn there be a option to select compatibility if you rightclick->properties->compatibility ??

Yahiko · Post by **Yahiko** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:33 pm

Sprint wrote: shouldn there be a option to select compatibility if you rightclick->properties->compatibility ??

I've tried that, doesn't solve the issues

Firestorm · Post by **Firestorm** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:43 am

nah not all anti-Virus appz wont run correctly better you buy/download a Virus scanner for Vista but yeah not all but most appz run cause you can run them like a XP program

Kenshi · Post by **Kenshi** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 3:11 am

I thought that vista was running both dx10 and dx9.. the whole thing with the backwards compatibility was that dx10 was not backwards compatible coz its based on completely different shit.. but i think that they have dx9 enabled too.. not sure i dont use shitty vista

bone-you · Post by **bone-you** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 5:06 am

Kenshi wrote: I thought that vista was running both dx10 and dx9.. the whole thing with the backwards compatibility was that dx10 was not backwards compatible coz its based on completely different shit.. but i think that they have dx9 enabled too.. not sure i dont use shitty vista

Perfect case of ignorance. You don't have Vista yet call it shitty. There is no compatibility issue with dx10. It's all backwards compatible.

Vista has the d3d8, d3d9, d3d10, and ddraw7 dlls so it can run all of them just fine.

tester · Post by **tester** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:21 pm

bone-you wrote:
Kenshi wrote: I thought that vista was running both dx10 and dx9.. the whole thing with the backwards compatibility was that dx10 was not backwards compatible coz its based on completely different shit.. but i think that they have dx9 enabled too.. not sure i dont use shitty vista
Perfect case of ignorance. You don't have Vista yet call it shitty. There is no compatibility issue with dx10. It's all backwards compatible.

Vista has the d3d8, d3d9, d3d10, and ddraw7 dlls so it can run all of them just fine.

AND u still dont sound like a nerd....

Cheers Tester

Firestorm · Post by **Firestorm** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:32 pm

the fact is Microsoft released a fine system with it... but hey everything got bugs Vista include millions of codes you can be sure everyone add a wrong varriable or a wrong code... just give Microsoft some time. Vista wasnt released and they worked on the first SP1 for it... you can besure microsoft try all to make the system more stable and bugless....

Charles · Post by **Charles** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 7:34 pm

Firestorm wrote: the fact is Microsoft released a fine system with it... but hey everything got bugs Vista include millions of codes you can be sure everyone add a wrong varriable or a wrong code... just give Microsoft some time. Vista wasnt released and they worked on the first SP1 for it... you can besure microsoft try all to make the system more stable and bugless....

yep.. otherwise they wouldn't make money, would they?

Firestorm · Post by **Firestorm** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 11:52 pm

everyone think Vista sucks no one wanna buy it everyone dont even tested it i bought Vista Ultimate (Yep i really bought it) and its 100x better than Windows XP or any other Windows operating system... Windows Vista plays in a complete other leauge like Windows XP... Its the same like Dell or so and Alienware... Alienware got the high end system Dell got normal Destkop PCs thats something completly different Windows Vista is the money worth yes you need very good hardware but i really think its the money worth.

Slayer · Post by **Slayer** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 7:04 am

Firestorm wrote: everyone think Vista sucks no one wanna buy it everyone dont even tested it i bought Vista Ultimate (Yep i really bought it) and its 100x better than Windows XP or any other Windows operating system... Windows Vista plays in a complete other leauge like Windows XP... Its the same like Dell or so and Alienware... Alienware got the high end system Dell got normal Destkop PCs thats something completly different Windows Vista is the money worth yes you need very good hardware but i really think its the money worth.

Yes, the support of drivers and software is great ... not. And btw, DELL bought Alienware mofo -.-'

Firestorm · Post by **Firestorm** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 1:19 pm

i know that Dell bought Alienware but the fact is on the alienware site you can buy better systems than on the dell side... and by the way Windows Vista is the future not the past.... thats why not all drivers work on it...