Vista Client?

[Annai]

No go still. Even after patch to blight, loading the 382. stuff and no patching while loading into Chaos. Just tells me Hz has stopped working. Good thing I have my laptop until the fix gets finished and patched to live servers.

[Prinn]

Here's my update:
Using the new launcher and new procedure, I'm able to patch and play on Blight using Vista 64 bit and 32 bit (after rebooting once). Yay!
As a side note, I'm able to play on Choas using above Blight method on Vista 64 bit, but not on 32 bit (Home Premium), still get the "horizons has stopped working" message.

[Smaug]

Got it working on Chaos, Vista 64bit Home Premium. I downloaded and installed the net 1.1 thing mentioned above. I went to blight and got the update there, then I copied the files from the vista zip file to the horizion folder. Had to copy them not extract cause Vista wouldn't let them overwrite existing files with extract but worked extracting them to a folder not in programs(x86) and then copying them over manually.

Once that done logged into Chaos, first time it closed (crashed?) like mentioned in other posts, then it worked 2nd try to login.

One thing, once you get it working on Chaos/Order don't try to log into Blight or will have to redo it all over (at least I did) to get back to reg shards.

thx

Smaug

[Shur]

No go still. Even after patch to blight, loading the 382. stuff and no patching while loading into Chaos. Just tells me Hz has stopped working. Good thing I have my laptop until the fix gets finished and patched to live servers.

since the live shards still run horizons.exe, and blight runs istaria.exe, you will have to change the name of the .exe after patching to blight if you wanna run on live with it.

[Dragonboy]

Another happy end, although I did get quite frustrating at times.

My victory story:
1. Patch by logging to a blight character.
2. Installed the new launcher.
3. Extract the istaria-383.2 file to the game folder.
4. Renamed the new Istaria.exe to Horizons.exe .
5. I was able to log in to my characters on Chaos (of course with patching not allowed).

Btw.

I am running Microsoft Vista Home Premium with service pack 1 @ 32 bits

[Guaran]

No go still. Even after patch to blight, loading the 382. stuff and no patching while loading into Chaos. Just tells me Hz has stopped working. Good thing I have my laptop until the fix gets finished and patched to live servers.

I should have mentioned to delete your old shortcuts to "horizons.exe" and "horizonslauncher.exe"

The new client is "Istaria.exe" and "launcher.exe"

Only Istaria.exe will run on Vista, horizons.exe doesn't. The new "launcher.exe" will launch the game using "istaria.exe"