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I Hate Vista: AC Dual Client wont install please help [Locked] |
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1/1/00 12:00am
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I Hate Vista: AC Dual Client wont install please help |
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Well if you buy a new computer you dont have much choice but to get Vista.
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1/1/00 12:00am
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<< First of all why would you buy vista in the first place. >>
Because it is better then XP in many areas?
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1/1/00 12:00am
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I'd use Vista if it were 100% compatible with everything I use. I prefer a lot about it.
But until then, it's sitting on its drive partition waiting to become useful.
Similar things were said about (especially) Windows 2000 and XP when they were released. Anyone still using Windows 98 raise your hand now.
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1/1/00 12:00am
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Windows XP for me is a good operating system but for those who can't afford the proper hardware Vista is the way to go if you keep referring back to Vista's supposedly more optimal network stack. Unfortunately your problem lies in the populous converting over to Vista which I honestly don't see happening within the next couple of years. This is Windows XP not Vista. I highly doubt you will see the devs boot two completely different operating systems just because there is only a couple of people working on it.
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1/1/00 12:00am
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Actually, I didn't think that the level of effort to make ACDC vista compatible would have been that high. Goru already has a sticky on how to make decal plugins compatible and much of the same applies to applications.
It didn't seem as if ACDC was actually all that far away from compatibility. It sometimes works now, under vista -- if the wind is from the right direction and you've eaten your wheaties. 
Of course, not having a personal platform on which to develop does add a significant level of difficulty, I will admit. |
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1/1/00 12:00am
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the main problem with ACDualClient (aside from registry) is that ACDC does it's own Decal Injection since they don't play nice together. I'm not sure what is required to get that operational, but my guess is it's not as simple as it was.
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1/1/00 12:00am
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I'd always wondered about that.
Is this the way that ACDC manages to make one instance of decal work with multiple different instances of the client running simultaneously?
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1/1/00 12:00am
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Is this the way that ACDC manages to make one instance of decal work with multiple different instances of the client running simultaneously?
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No.. Decal does that all on it's own. The problem is that Decal doesn't like to inject until the user presses the "Next" button, but since ACDualClient doesn't press the "Next" button, then Decal doesn't get flagged of the message to do it. Since Decal cannot inject itself in these cases, I need to do the injection myself (and run the Decal startup code to make it initialized and run).
It's a bit more complicated that it seems on the surface, but regardless, it was a hack. Since Vista however, they've increased security in things like that, and I'm no longer able to do what I'm doing it seems. Therefore, I need to find a different way to inject Decal and get it loaded.. I'm just not sure how. (ForceLib doesn't seem to work too well in Vista)
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