Thomas: Hey I am willing to donate money to help you also. I will donate as much as I can.
-----Original Message----- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Cory Kadlik Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 9:51 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] MOTA and Vista 64 eddition guys. Tom has got to have a pay pal account. Tom, you give me a link to one, I asure you you'll get about 20 bucks from me! Come on guys. Let's help M' out ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1...@gmail.com> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 10:11 PM Subject: [Audyssey] MOTA and Vista 64 eddition > Hello everyone, > I've spent the passed couple of days trying to track down why Mysteries of > the Ancients is crashing on systems running Windows Vista 64 eddition. > I've got some good news and bad news on that issue. I'll start with the > good news. > The good news is thanks to some help from Che Martain and some extensive > reading I found out why the game is crashing. Apparently the DirectX > libraries were compiled using x86 as the target platform. What I didn't > know is that when linking to these libraries it is a good idea to also > compile my games using x86 as the target platform rather than using the > generic any cpu target platform option. The reason is when installing > Managed DirectX on Vista 64 it requires the 32 byt version of the .NET > Framework, but because Mysteries of the Ancients was compiled using the > any cpu target platform it was using the 64 byt .NET Framework. End result > is a big crash. That's the good news. > The bad news is I am currently using Visual Studio .NET Express 2008. The > problem I am facing now is that Visual Studio Express will not allow me to > change the target platform type of my applications. That feature is only > available in Visual Studio Pro. Which means unless I get roughly $200 to > upgrade Visual Studio to the Pro eddition I can not support Windows Vista > 64 eddition at this time. I'm sorry, but until I can afford to upgrade I > can only support the 32 byt versions of Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7. > > Sincerely, > Thomas Ward > USA Games Interactive > http://www.usagamesinteractive.com > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the > list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
