Need help testing an experimental vista fix.

[T-Sar-Goth]

Hello everyone,

I'm doing some experiments for a Vista work around. It involves installing some extra software but initial testing show some promise.

Please contact me by IM or email should you be willing to help me in testing. should this work for others I'll post instructions on the forums.

Take care,
Tsargoth

P.S. You will need an XP install CD for this.

[velveeta]

heehee i would be very interesting in testing, t - if i had a xp install disk!!

if you get a prospective cure that does not require a xp disk, let me know!! got a puter all ready to try it!

[Shurandel]

you have exceeded your limit for the inbox but i am willing to help

[T-Sar-Goth]

Opps. Thought I fixed that... this isn't so much a fix as it is a stupid work around. Expect some graphic glitches but it looks like it will work. Someone that needed to reboot 40+ times can now get it to run on the first try...

I'll send you a PM with the details

[Shurandel]

just starting the process - downloading the software - now...

watch this space and bear in mind that NONE of the previous options worked at all, regardless of how many times i rebooted

[Shurandel]

approx 20mins to install win xp

i truly hope it works...

keep watching and praying

[Shurandel]

just an update. currently downloading the patch which will take a while so i may leave it to do it overnight as it is 00:21 atmo.

looking good tho


update: i decided to wait and im in... loading up now

great work T-Sar

[T-Sar-Goth]

Glad it worked for you. 2 for 2. I'll post the details on how to get this to work here tomorrow.

Thank you very much for the help

[CottenCandy]

Errr anymore word on this fix?? Please *begs*

[T-Sar-Goth]

Okay here's the idea. It's stupid but my initial test show some promise.

Download the trial of VMware from here - https://www.vmware.com/tryvmware/?p=workstation-w

It's 30 days free and after doing the initial OS setup on VMware you can use VMWare player to run files you created with the trial above. So you don't have to pay anything. You can get the player here but it's won't be needed until the very end - http://www.vmware.com/download/player/

Once VMware is installed you need to create a virtual machine on install XP on it. As it's virtual hardware there won't be any trouble finding drivers.

Now once thats done you need to enable 'experimental' Direct3D on VMware. You can do that using the instructions here - http://www.vmware.com/support/ws5/do...sound_d3d.html

Finally install Horizons / Istaria into the virtual XP machine. When I tested this it worked on the virtual hardware. The others that have tested reported graphic glitches but it has been working.

Should you decide to try this out please let me know the results

Take care,
Tsargoth

[rizo/nawkia]

http://community.istaria.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=19910

do the second to last post. and if you cant find netfx.msi download winrar or something and open dotnetfx.exe and extract it to desktop.



it works

[Creme]

http://community.istaria.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=19910

brings up page not found for me.

[rizo/nawkia]

http://community.istaria.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=19910