Originally Posted by
walkertn
Ok this whole process is a pain in the ****** but I do have Horizons working under vista.
Here is the way my pc is set up at the moment.
User Account Control is turned off.
I do have the 2005 C++ Libraries installed from the Vista thread (I have not tried this process without them installed)
I do not have the .dll replacement files in the horizons directory.
I do have all of the istaria sites added to my IE trusted sites list.
This is how I get horizons to work, and I found this out by mistake after mistaking horizons.exe for the standalone launcher.
1. A clean reboot (If you have crashed horizons at all then you need to reboot)
2. Go to your horizons folder and right click on the horizons.exe file and hit run as administrator. The slash screen will show up and then an error message telling you to log in from the website.
3. Use the website or the standalone launcher to log in and start horizons.
I have tested this with blight and chaos, also with my old account and the new one I was planning on starting. The whole client works after it starts, I was able to create a character and play.
The crash problem must have something to do with the way Horizons switched between the launcher and the client. And I honestly have no idea why it works this way, but it does.