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Hi, I've been lurking here for a while. With WitP AE and BTR still not out and the B-Day around the corner I'm look for a new game. I'm guessing this has been asked before but I guess I missed it. Will this game work with Vista.

I'm running Vista Ultimate, and have only problem: Think twice before running HCE w. large fonts. You will have trouble reading some of the messages, because they are geared for small fonts. Doubt that this is OS-specific.

Running 32-bit Vista Ultimate, works fine or me.

acarney, http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?autocom=downloads&showfile=228 is your friend if you run with large fonts.  Run it to clear the window size settings, then start the game, you should have much better results.
 
tanksome, I even develop the game on Vista 32-bit.  The scenario editor being a 16-bit application will not run on Vista-64 without an emulator but everything else will work (and it all works on 32-bit Vista).

Yep, and Aero seems to work with it too.  Pretty HCE. [:D]

ORIGINAL: TonyE

acarney, http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?autocom=downloads&showfile=228 is your friend if you run with large fonts.  Run it to clear the window size settings, then start the game, you should have much better results.

tanksome, I even develop the game on Vista 32-bit.  The scenario editor being a 16-bit application will not run on Vista-64 without an emulator but everything else will work (and it all works on 32-bit Vista).

Which emulator do you use with Vista 64? My new laptop comes with it, and I'm fine with the GE, but like you said the SE doesn't play. I have little to no idea about what I need when we start talking about emulators.

I happen to run VMWare Workstation (http://www.vmware.com/products/ws/) but if all you are doing is running the SE, that's tremendous overkill.  If you manage to get a legal VM from someone, you can use VMware's Player (http://www.vmware.com/products/player/) but the legal part there is tough since you can't create a new virtual machine with VMWare player (but someone could send you a Linux VM and you install Windows over it, I leave that ethics discussion for others).  What you end up doing with VMWare is creating a virtual computer within your computer and installing another copy of Windows on that virtual computer (32-bit Vista or XP or...), then run the SE on that.
 
Since I use VMWare I'm not well versed in the Vista mumbo jumbo in hopes of using a free copy of Virtual PC.  I know some other HC players use Virtual PC but I don't know the related legal/ethical answers but if you have Vista Ultimate or Enterprise you stand a good chance of keeping everyone happy   http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2006/3/3/3052
 
 
And before someone gets to it, yes, there is a good chance the SE will move into the late 1990s at some point, it just isn't going to be two or three weeks from now.

I run Vista 64 and to use the SE I install a copy of XP into a Microsoft Virtual PC session.
 
It costs nothing as long as you have a valid Windows licence and you can get it here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=04d26402-3199-48a3-afa2-2dc0b40a73b6&DisplayLang=en
 
Very useful tool, there is also a Service Pack 1 availalbe for it, which would be worth downloading too.
 
Not as powerful as VMware, but it does the job if you just want to use the Scenario Editor.

Thanks Tony!

Finally got a chance to test it. Worked like a charm.