Well if 7 stays as predicted, I see a whole bunch of the whining stopping...
It seems in the business and ultimate tiers (lets take 1 product and quadruple the problems by splitting it up!) will have a fully functional Virtual Machine of XP out of the box, and not just a normal VM but one that you can use natively instead of emulation of stuff.

Mind you this is MS so I worry what we will actually get in the end...

 

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When I first read about this, my heart jumped a little because I figured I would be able to forgo a dual boot XP/Win7 system. However, from what I have read, the XP VM will not support hardware acceleration. I hope I've read wrong.

After installing the extracted file in the Decal folder, I got the same error message regarding this application has failed to start because d3dx9_35.dll was not found. I installed the file from the link provided regarding d3dx9_35.dll and the same message came up when trying to log into AC. I noted that when installing the file it asks where do you want to extract the files to so I chose the Decal folder. That didn't work. I tried installing into the AC folder and that didn't work. I'm using an EVGA nvidia 512 MB 9800 GT. I'm going to try reinstalling Decal and see what that gets me. Reinstalling Decal got me back into AC and I'm not sure if I still have the sky bug...nope nope it's not gone but it is significantly reduced....YAY!!

 

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Okay sorry that must not have been a recent enough DirectX, try this one: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2DA43D38-DB71-4C1B-BC6A-9B6652CD92A3&displaylang=en

 

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Fyrie - i'd not heard anything about that yet. What I did learn tonight was the processor will need to support Hardware Virtulation mabob thingy... the problem is not all chips do it and the chip makers aren;t being very upfront about what chips do it, BUT there is an itty bitty program on Gibson Research called Secureable http://www.grc.com/securable.htm that will tell you if your chip supports it...

as always YMMV, and VI will make it better later...

wubbie

 

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Fyrie from what i've read in other threads and on T, is that there is often very little trouble in getting AC to run in/under a VM setup.


WHAT doesn't work/run is Decal, and for some that is the real show stopper.

 

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I hope you both are right, but these two articles say differently:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/975/1051975/xp-mode-windows-scam
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/28/windows_7_xp_certification/

I've done more digging today, and it seems like everyone is just speculating at this point based off the fact that it uses virtualPC under the hood which apparently does not support full 3D acceleration. With virtual pc, the video card is virtualized as a lowest common denominator / legacy card.

That being said, Transgaming has come up with a way to simulate 3D acceleration on the CPU, so maybe this would be a viable route if people can't get the game running natively under Win 7 and have the hardware to run XP mode.

But again, this is all speculation. Microsoft hasn't said anything one way or the other regarding hardware acceleration as far as I can find. Perhaps they are updating the technology to allow this. Only time will tell.

I was reading somewhere that once the MSDN servers recover from their second blowup there is going to be a timed bombed trial of 7 available. So I doubt we will have to rely on what people say might or might not be... we will find some guinea pigs to run it for us

My x2 is to old to support the Hardware Virtualization so I'm out...

 

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Heya VI, gots a question...

Someone who was using the fix reported that it stopped working.
A little digging and the Inject thingy had reverted to the old version.

I dunno if its something the player did, or if patching has it check the dlls and then replaces "wrong" ones.

Is this just random happening, or just something we need to remind people who use your workaround to replace it after updates. You understand Decal much better than I so I defer to your awesome skills!

wubs

 

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