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Hello Gentlemen

I Plan to build a new Computer and wounder if War in the Pacific Will work on Vista 64 Bit System?

I of course will ceap the P4 Computer also, so i will still play regardless, just wounder if it will work on the new system as well or not..?




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ORIGINAL: Japan

Hello Gentlemen

I Plan to build a new Computer and wounder if War in the Pacific Will work on Vista 64 Bit System?

I of course will ceap the P4 Computer also, so i will still play regardless, just wounder if it will work on the new system as well or not..?




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It works - some people have reported problems of installation, but once on it seems to be fine.

works fie on a 32 bit one.

Roger

Hello !

I'm a newbie and i just have War in the pacific.

But when i lauch the game a fatal error : 817 stop the process.
For information i have a vista version but i don't know if it 64 of 32 (i have a family premium version).

I had the same problem with UV when i try it in Vista.

Thanks for help and i apalogize for my english. [&o]

ORIGINAL: pedro771

Hello !

I'm a newbie and i just have War in the pacific.

But when i lauch the game a fatal error : 817 stop the process.
For information i have a vista version but i don't know if it 64 of 32 (i have a family premium version).

I had the same problem with UV when i try it in Vista.

Thanks for help and i apalogize for my english. [&o]

Any fatal error usually means you have to reinstall.

EDIT: Do a DEINSTALL (Fatal errors 817 and 818 usually mean a messed up registry - deinstall to clean out the registry), go back to your original version, then 1.804 COMPREHENSIVE, then 1.806 revised.

Sorry guys but can you please clarify your answer to this question.

It is clear that it works on a 32 bit Vista system, but does it actually work on a 64 bit Vista system ?

This is crucial information for me as I am about to get a new computer with the option of 32 or 64 bit.

Thanks for any help you can provide

Vista 32 is faster than the 64bit version for most purposes.
If you are not using high end engeneering programs, you probably wont need the 64 bit Vista.
Other than that - it runs on Vista 64

Thanks-- this is very helpful

If thinking of "upgrading" to Vista from XP, dont.[:)]

We got a new PC with vista for the boys... AH not so good.. many issues with the old games

So far, in the experience of WITP forumites, most (all?) of the VISTA issues seem to be security related, like the EXE does not have rights to a sub-folder. Since I've managed to avoid having a VISTA instance on any of my machines so far [:)], I cannot speak from direct experience, but if you have specific WITP/VISTA issues, I suspect this forum can adivse.

ORIGINAL: Gem35

If thinking of "upgrading" to Vista from XP, dont.[:)]

This is becoming less true as time passes. I, too, was wary of upgrading to Vista but I ran into a problem with a 4 year old motherboard dying on me last month. I rebuilt a new system, installed my old copy of XP pro on it and created dual-boot system with Vista Ultimate. Both OS are 32-bit. Service pack 1 and an upgrade to directX 10 have been issued recently.

You'll have to tweak Vista a bit to make sure you have all of the administrative rights and have it optimized for speed. I would also recommend going with as much RAM as you can afford for Vista. It is a resource hog. I have a quad core with 4 GB of RAM and Vista runs fine albeit a little slower than XP. You'll need Vista in another year or so when the other software catches up if you are into any other games besides this one.

Don't cheat yourself on the OS. Buy the best version and steer away from those home editions.

Another thing about Vista is you can downgrade to XP if you aren't going to go the dual-boot route. You'll need Vista Ultimate or Business version to qualify for the downgrade.

How to downgrade Vista to XP

ORIGINAL: OSO


This is becoming less true as time passes.

Another thing about Vista is you can downgrade to XP

Yes it is becomming less true because XP is becomming less and less available. DELL just stopped shipping XP machines last week for example.

As to downgrading, the serious issue here is drivers. Your VISTA drivers may not work for your XP downgrade and in fact there is no general garantee that a full set of working XP drivers will be available for a given machine. I have several friends that "downgraded" and now experience 1-2 CTD per day. So I would not recommend downgrade unless you can ensure before hand that a full set of working drivers exist. And your PC vendor will probably not help you with this. But there are emerging services (you can find them on the web) that will help you will this, though probably will charge a fee. So I would not recommend down grading unless you have serious issues with things are are know not to work with VISTA that you must have working. And if you do choose to downgrade get help and make sure a full set of working drivers are known to exist for your machine.

I have WITP installed on a laptop with an AMD Turion 64 chip and have no problems. Well, I had a few problems but they were related to the poor way I installed WITP. This forum pointed out the error of my ways. Follow the directions! I have since installed WITP again for CHS. Again, many problems until I printed out the directions and followed them, and then no problems. For some reason, zip and rar files hate me.

ORIGINAL: jwilkerson

ORIGINAL: OSO


This is becoming less true as time passes.

Another thing about Vista is you can downgrade to XP

Yes it is becomming less true because XP is becomming less and less available. DELL just stopped shipping XP machines last week for example.

As to downgrading, the serious issue here is drivers. Your VISTA drivers may not work for your XP downgrade and in fact there is no general garantee that a full set of working XP drivers will be available for a given machine. I have several friends that "downgraded" and now experience 1-2 CTD per day. So I would not recommend downgrade unless you can ensure before hand that a full set of working drivers exist. And your PC vendor will probably not help you with this. But there are emerging services (you can find them on the web) that will help you will this, though probably will charge a fee. So I would not recommend down grading unless you have serious issues with things are are know not to work with VISTA that you must have working. And if you do choose to downgrade get help and make sure a full set of working drivers are known to exist for your machine.

I've experienced lock-ups and CTDs in every OS that I've ever used at one time or another. Everything from Windows 3.1 to Mac OS, and yes, XP too. Sometimes it is a driver issue, sometimes hardware, sometimes the software, and other times it is an operator issue. Personally, I use OEM stuff and build my own. I had no problems finding XP drivers for all of the hardware I just purchased last month. If you read the article that I linked to it is pretty specific on how you downgrade.

You have to have an OEM copy of Vista Ultimate/Business and an old OEM copy of XP laying around. You install XP but instead of activating it through the internet you activate it over the phone and give them your serial number for Vista. In other words when you downgrade you essentialy re-format the PC. At least that's how my copy of XP always worked.

From that link I provided above:

So, what downgrades does Microsoft allow? Owners of the OEM editions of Vista Business and Vista Ultimate can downgrade to Windows XP Professional, including Tablet PC Edition and x64 Edition. Only the OEM editions qualify for a downgrade, so if you purchased a new PC with either Business or Ultimate preinstalled, you're in like Flynn.

Those who aren't: All users of Vista Home Basic and Vista Home Premium, and anyone who upgraded to Vista using a retail edition of any of the operating system's SKUs. You are, as they say, SOL.

How do I downgrade? Install a copy of Windows XP Professional with the product key that came with the copy, and then when you hit the activation screen -- which is near the end of the installation process -- select the activate by phone option rather than the online method. You'll likely end up talking with a live rep; tell him that you're downgrading from Vista to XP, and give him the Vista product key. The rep is supposed to walk you through the rest.

Where do I get the XP install disc? Until this summer, Microsoft put the responsibility on the end users' shoulders. For example, in this Vista downgrade rights document targeting resellers, the company said "media is provided by the customer."

As far as drivers go most hardware should still support XP. Microsoft will continue to support XP until 30 June 2008. Why wouldn't hardware manufacturers support XP? For example, both Nvidia and ATI still have drivers for download on their sites for Windows 95 in some cases. If your friends didn't have an OEM copy of Vista Ultimate/Business then that would explain the problem. I don't know if Dell, Gateway, HP, or other mainstream manufacturers provide OEM copies of the OS. From my experience they usually include a 'dummy' disk for reformatting to factory specifications.