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I recently found an interesting thread about vista admin accounts:

Make your Vista's admin account acts like in XP, Always in full control

updated another thread...

switching of User Account Control
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I recently installed BOTF (no patches) on Vista. So far it's working fine but I'm running into a couple of problems:

No Sound - I go into Options and set the volume and hit "Accept" but when I go back, they are all set to 0. I installed BOTF before I installed the correct sound drivers for Vista so I am going to test uninstalling and reinstalling BOTF.

System Reset - Twice now I have been bombarding a system when it will instantly be back at full population with many orbital batteries. At first I thought it was a fluke but the second time really caught me by surprise. I had a system down from 300+ population ant 4 orbital batteries to under a hundred pop with no batteries (using 9 destroyers) and then all of a sudden, the next turn, it's back to full pop with 7 orbital batteries destroying all my ships.

Both times it was with a minor race system.
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Drafterman wrote:System Reset - Twice now I have been bombarding a system when it will instantly be back at full population with many orbital batteries. At first I thought it was a fluke but the second time really caught me by surprise. I had a system down from 300+ population ant 4 orbital batteries to under a hundred pop with no batteries (using 9 destroyers) and then all of a sudden, the next turn, it's back to full pop with 7 orbital batteries destroying all my ships.

Both times it was with a minor race system.
That's normal behavior. Minor races advance in jumps. On each jump they gain population (if they can), ships and buildings. Population growth is also based on previous population, not on actual population. If you check the modding section, the race advancement topic contains more in depth info.
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DCER wrote:
Drafterman wrote:System Reset - Twice now I have been bombarding a system when it will instantly be back at full population with many orbital batteries. At first I thought it was a fluke but the second time really caught me by surprise. I had a system down from 300+ population ant 4 orbital batteries to under a hundred pop with no batteries (using 9 destroyers) and then all of a sudden, the next turn, it's back to full pop with 7 orbital batteries destroying all my ships.

Both times it was with a minor race system.
That's normal behavior. Minor races advance in jumps. On each jump they gain population (if they can), ships and buildings. Population growth is also based on previous population, not on actual population. If you check the modding section, the race advancement topic contains more in depth info.
I noticed that too. Right after a jump, an additional planet was terraformed in that system. I also noticed that if I terraform a planet for them, it doesn't trigger a jump.

I also fixed my sound issue. It was turned to "off" in the conf file.
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"Data Prevention is preventing this program from starting"

System:

Intel Dual Core 1.8 GHz | 3 GB of RAM x86 - Vista 32 bit
ATI HD4670


Any solutions for this? Installed with Multi-installer and Hadez 2.2

Read thru this thread and didnt see any solutions for this problem :(

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Crashes upon entry into game

Version Under Test: 72
File: dounzip.c, Line: 421, C:\botf\STBOF.RES
Initialize State: 0
Player Empire: 1 Starting Seed: 0
Galaxy shape: 0 Galaxy Size: 0
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Tethys wrote:Any solutions for this? Installed with Multi-installer and Hadez 2.2
you installed multi then hades 2.2?

multi come with option when installing for vanilla, hades 1.1 and hades 2.2

no other files are needed.

Don't know about error log

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no the multi hades 2.2 option he chose. now i am also getting the same thing with a friend who installed it on XP... no error message but here is the crashlog:

will add the crashlog later when my friend gets to it.
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Post by sax »

Hi together,

I want to add a thing, which might be interesting. After months of being apart from playing BotF I decided to install it again but now on Vista (64bit). After looking around I find the Main Multi Installer and tried it out.

No problems during the installation but I couldn't start the game.
After trial and error with using xp-compatibilty and granting admin-rights I checked the stbof.ini, cause I thought the hades 2.2 might be the issue and I want to change the mode. However I have to notice that not the 3D-Setting is wrong but simple the path wasn't the right one which I installed the game in. The entry was c:\botf\ instead of c:\games\botf\. So you might check it out if you got an error at start.

Btw. apart from this little error, the Main Muli Installer is really great work!

sax

Edit: The Balance of Power Mod also wants to use the path c:\botf. Seems to be a wrong registry entry by the Installer.
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ok thank you for this information. i will see if this is the case...
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path was correct and 3d=software is the mode.. :/
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The main issue I'm having with Vista is I'll get the battle screen up, where you choose Fight, Hail or Auto and as soon as I click Fight, the game crashes to the desktop and I get the this program has stopped responding dialog up

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Hi guys,

I've just reinstalled BOTF of Vista, and the game works fine except that I can't save anything, and if I exit the game, and re-enter it, it won't allow me to continue a previous campaign. Any solutions?
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Post by KrazeeXXL »

try to play the game as a full admin (not the local one) (right click trek.exe then "run as...")

or

switch off vista user accounts control. But it is not advisable to do this and this will give you permanent admin rights in every program you start. So it is and/or can be a security issue which depends on your behaviour.

try the links in my posts on the top of the page in this thread if you dunno how to do it. I can't say if it'll help you as I'am a XP user. But would be nice if you could post your results here.

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Post by sean_west »

My old XP laptop is looking battered, like it has spent a week at the Somme..

My wife said that she wants a new then I could have her's, but she has vista and I have not managed to get BOTF to work on it yet.

So I told her TOUGH....

If someone can fix this problem, then she may get a new one.
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Post by ruthlessferengi »

sean, i never had trouble with vista running botf... which does not make it easier... i just got a new lappy (gateway), cheap thing for 500$ and it runs botf no problem, as well as the old desktop... so you may get a new lappy, and always return it if it does not work
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