Exile Trilogy for Vista?
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Apprentice
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written Tuesday, June 12 2007 05:26
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Hey does anyone have a fix to play Exile on Windows Vista? I played the Exile Trilogy way back in the day on my mac (I no longer have my mac)and thought it would be fun to play all 3 in a sequence again, problem is I have Vista, and the first Exile keeps spontaneously quitting or freezes up and doesnt respond in the middle random battles, I think its just the first game seeing as how I played Exile III for 6 hrs without a single problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated! P.S. I would really prefer not to play through the series with Avernum . . . I have a bond with the oldschool Exile Trilogy . . . with Avernum, it just wouldn't be the same. [ Tuesday, June 12, 2007 05:32: Message edited by: Cypher ] Posts: 4 | Registered: Tuesday, June 12 2007 07:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Tuesday, June 12 2007 10:34
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I have Vista, and know what you mean. Just play the game in compatibility mode; the same is true for the editor, if you want to use it. I suggest you do the same thing with E2 & E3, just in case. -------------------- Either I'm crazy, or everybody else is nuts. And I know I'm not crazy because the little man who lives on my shoulder told me so. If people don't think there's something wrong with you, there's something wrong with you. Posts: 558 | Registered: Friday, September 15 2006 07:00 |
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Apprentice
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written Friday, June 15 2007 04:12
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I Got it working just fine now in compatability mode . . . Thanks Mystic! Posts: 4 | Registered: Tuesday, June 12 2007 07:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Sunday, June 17 2007 05:33
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Glad to be of help. Vista is a rather funky and finicky OS to begin with. -------------------- Either I'm crazy, or everybody else is nuts. And I know I'm not crazy because the little man who lives on my shoulder told me so. If people don't think there's something wrong with you, there's something wrong with you. Posts: 558 | Registered: Friday, September 15 2006 07:00 |
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Warrior
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written Sunday, June 17 2007 22:34
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quote:Hahaha! Sigged! -------------------- "The mouth is like the city gate. Opening it lets the soldiers of stupidity into the world." --Shaper wisdom from G2 Porcrastinators Unite...Tomorrow! Posts: 197 | Registered: Saturday, June 2 2007 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Monday, June 18 2007 16:27
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quote:Really only when it comes to backwards compatibility, and it has more of that than OS X. :P -------------------- "You're drinking liquor because you're thirsty? How nasty is your freaking water?" —Lazarus Spiderweb Chat Room Avernum RP • Summaries • OoC • Roster Shadow Vale - My site, home of the Spiderweb Chat Database, BoA Scenario Database, & the A1 Quest List, among other things. Posts: 1556 | Registered: Sunday, November 20 2005 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Monday, June 18 2007 17:46
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I've really had almost no trouble with Classic. It's backwards compatibility on Intel Macs that requires an unusual degree of sophistication and third-party software to finagle. —Alorael, whose only real regret is never being able to get Summoner to run right with any tricks but a Mac booted in OS 9. It's still a mediocre game and it still has the best city in any game he's seen. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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Warrior
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written Tuesday, June 19 2007 01:50
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The Exile games are kind of screwy under Classic, though. In particular, a few fights in Exile II would consistently crash under Classic, but run fine on a real OS 9 machine. Posts: 66 | Registered: Saturday, November 4 2006 08:00 |
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Warrior
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written Tuesday, June 19 2007 05:08
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My real computer is really bug-free. Luckily, I will be back at it tomorrow. -------------------- "The mouth is like the city gate. Opening it lets the soldiers of stupidity into the world." --Shaper wisdom from G2 Porcrastinators Unite...Tomorrow! The Mystic: "Vista is a rather funky and finicky OS to begin with." Posts: 197 | Registered: Saturday, June 2 2007 07:00 |
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Master
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written Tuesday, June 19 2007 19:45
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Well, sure Vista has gimmicks and adjustments that need to be made, but at least it looks cool and forces you to buy a powerful computer just to run it. -------------------- -ben4808 Posts: 3360 | Registered: Friday, June 25 2004 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Wednesday, June 20 2007 04:15
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quote:When XP first came out you needed a (then) powerful computer to run it. Vista really doesn't have incredibly steep requirements by today's standards. You don't even need a powerful video card like they say. You won't get transparent window effects without one, but that's not a big deal. But seriously, a PC with 512MB of RAM, a 1GHz CPU, and 20GB of hard drive space is not exactly hard to come by. They had PCs with those specs 5 years ago. :P -------------------- "You're drinking liquor because you're thirsty? How nasty is your freaking water?" —Lazarus Spiderweb Chat Room Avernum RP • Summaries • OoC • Roster Shadow Vale - My site, home of the Spiderweb Chat Database, BoA Scenario Database, & the A1 Quest List, among other things. Posts: 1556 | Registered: Sunday, November 20 2005 08:00 |
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Agent
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written Wednesday, June 20 2007 04:48
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quote:Yeah sure, if you don't mind 35% of your hard disk being occupied by the OS:  -------------------- "Blink and you're dead... Don't turn your back, don't look away and don't blink." Geneforge 4 stuff. Also, everything I know about Avernum | Avernum 2 | Avernum 3 | Avernum 4 Posts: 1104 | Registered: Monday, March 10 2003 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Wednesday, June 20 2007 06:18
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Well, XP is the final stop for me as far as Windows is concerned. I wouldn't take Vista for free. Yes, computers are getting more powerful, but they aren't meant to be powerful just so the OS can hog all the resources. My idea of an OS is something that runs in the background and controls the hardware with minimal load, and provides a desktop when needed. Leaving the fancy graphics card and CPU to be used by actual applications... :P -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Wednesday, June 20 2007 13:31
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Microsoft has always had memory hungry programs since the start. That's why we have so much memory in our computers and hard drives. You should have been around when PCs first came out and the salesmen used to apologize for it. Posts: 4643 | Registered: Friday, February 10 2006 08:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Wednesday, June 20 2007 19:06
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quote:I'll have to take your word about anything concerning OS X, my last Mac computer was an Apple IIe (remember those?). And here's a little fun fact with Vista's backwards compatibility: I have a very, very, very old RPG for Windows 3.1 that, amazingly, runs perfectly in Vista with no issues whatsoever. -------------------- Either I'm crazy, or everybody else is nuts. And I know I'm not crazy because the little man who lives on my shoulder told me so. If people don't think there's something wrong with you, there's something wrong with you. Posts: 558 | Registered: Friday, September 15 2006 07:00 |
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...b10010b...
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written Wednesday, June 20 2007 23:58
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quote:That's not even a Macintosh. :P -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Thursday, June 21 2007 10:48
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True, but it is an ancestor of the modern-day Mac, since that's what it eventually evolved into. -------------------- Either I'm crazy, or everybody else is nuts. And I know I'm not crazy because the little man who lives on my shoulder told me so. If people don't think there's something wrong with you, there's something wrong with you. Posts: 558 | Registered: Friday, September 15 2006 07:00 |
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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Thursday, June 21 2007 14:19
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It only counts as a protomac if you spell it ][e. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Thursday, June 21 2007 16:40
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Thanks Yama, that's the one I was talking about; I forgot that it was ][e, not IIe. -------------------- Either I'm crazy, or everybody else is nuts. And I know I'm not crazy because the little man who lives on my shoulder told me so. If people don't think there's something wrong with you, there's something wrong with you. Posts: 558 | Registered: Friday, September 15 2006 07:00 |