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ts3.2 and vista
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Post by Unregistered // Jul 11, 2007, 1:58pm
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ive been using ts3 for years, just got vista, tried loading the software, it looks like its going thru the motions but nothing comes up!!! no errors or anything. have tried changing the compatability settings in vista but no joy. is there some kind of patch i can download or something easier? thanks |
Post by trueSpaced // Jul 12, 2007, 5:30am
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The only thing I could suggest would be to upgrade to 6.6 (I'm not sure if 5.2 works on Vista or not; maybe you could get someone to tell you for sure about that), because I run it on Vista just fine.
I'm sure you can get more help from someone else, but I don't know; I've never run TrueSpace 3.2...
-TrueSpaced:banana: |
Post by scapino // Jul 12, 2007, 7:01am
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You should try and download VirtualPC 2007, from the MS site. It is "unsupported" on Vista flavors below buisness, but it will install and run just the same. Its free BTW. Install and create a Virtual Machine and install your old OS on it (whatever you were using before Vista). It should load and run the ol' software just fine, in the Virtual Machine.
Kurt |
Post by Unregistered // May 30, 2008, 12:07pm
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actually, i have seen people using my version of vista and TS 3.2 just fine. I don't want to buy a new version of TS because i am a high school student and have more important things to spend money on (car, college) than a 3d renderer. won't anybody have anything to do with any of us cheap people? all we ask is a little help! sure, maybe you want to make your money, but some people want to be able to use a free version before they even think about upgrading. Sorry to sound nasty, but i have been up, down, in and out of these forums looking for an answer that didn't involve buying $600 software. |
Post by spacekdet // Jun 1, 2008, 7:57pm
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tS3: Released 1997
Vista: Released 2007
<shrugs>
Try the virtual machine angle, or isn't there a way to run it as an Administrator (dunno, I'm sticking with xp for now) because I get the feeling that Caligari isn't working on making tS3 compatible with Vista and MS isn't worried about whether 11 year old software is still compatible with their OS.
Cheap has not much to do with it. |
Post by TomG // Jun 2, 2008, 3:51am
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tS3.2 can run under Vista (runs fine on my Vista machine, 32 bit). It's hard to say what the issue is, could be anything from graphics card drivers, to Vista, to something else.
Diagnosing what makes tS3.2 run on one machine and not on another is not something we can do unfortunately. You'd need to check if it is run as administrator, check it was installed as administrator, check your graphics card drivers are up to date, check if it is being run in one of the compatibility modes, etc.
Changing any of those may lead to success, or it may not, unfortunately it does depend on your unique combination of hardware, OS, and settings so there is no single setting for those that we can recommend as the "definitely will work for all" values. As noted, tS3.2 is free, and as such is provided without any tech support, which means we can't walk through all that with you step by step, but we can point you at those items as being the things you can change that might make a difference.
Let us know if any of that resolves the issue!
HTH!
Tom |
Post by Johny // Jun 3, 2008, 1:04am
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tS3.2 run well on my Vista home premium too. :) |
Post by butterpaw // Jun 4, 2008, 1:17am
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I don't have tS3.2, and I also managed to sidestep Vista this time around and am still running xp pro on my newest computer purchased last month, just so I can postpone these transitional problems a while longer
However, I still have an old machine running windows 98 Se2 which I fire up just for some of my older games ... I realize I now have a collection of large 'doorstops' and pretty plastic disk boxes filled with my abandonware 'treasures' like Endorfun, a funky psychedelic game which, while it will run on newer machines, loses its wonderful visual effects. I also have DOSbox running on xp for the golden oldies like Kings Quest, and also an OLD Mac PC for a couple of things I love on that .. 'Restless Souls' is my favorite.
My point? from my dad, I learned to ways to keep the loved things going as long as possible. He even recorded our old childhood 78s from the Children's Record Guild onto cassette tapes, and it looks like I'd better be turning them into mp3's or some such pretty soon!
So.... if nothing else works for you...try dusting off that older machine clean out all the stuff on it you don't use or have already transferred ... and give it a place on or under your desk... |
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