Hi Dark and all, I've read all of the Audiogames.net forum posts on the topic and I do see several comments flying around on their that are technically incorrect as well as some good advice. Therefore I thought I'd respond here with a few technical tidbits you can pass along to help the situation as you see fit.
One, I now have a Windows 7 64-bit system, and Packman Talks seems to run fine provided The Visual Basic 6 SP6 runtimes are installed, and the DirectX 8 Visual Basic components are installed. Therefore even if he were running Windows 7 instead of Windos XP the operating system wouldn't be the problem unless the necessary components were not installed. Second, as for switching to a U.S. keyboard layout that is a good suggestion. Many older applications written in Visual Basic 6 date back to the Windows 98 era of software programming standards and as a result things like the international unicode standards were not yet in place. What this means in non-technical terms is applications written in VB 6 does not necessarily always work well on non-English systems unless the VB developer in question specifically added unicode support to his/her program. This has caused no end of grief for developers, and is one of the reasons Microsoft canned VB 6 in favor of VB .Net which meets all international unicode standards. In short, it may very well be a language/keyboard configuration error that is causing the application to crash. Third, as far as .Net Framework 4.0 goes there is a compatible runtime environment for Windows XP. It is largely backward compatible with older .Net based apps and libraries and generally speaking one doesn't need to install them all as .Net 4 has compatibility libraries for older .Net apps already. All I have on my system is .Net 4.0 and everything works accept a couple of apps that were compiled for .Net 1.x. Finally, when people talk about DirectX 10 or DirectX 11 that's a bit of a misnomer as that usually refers to the graphics components like Direct3D. All DirectX 10 is--in terms of differences between DirectX 9 and 10---it is DirectX 9.0C with an updated Direct3D graphics API. Most components like DirectInput, DirectSound, etc haven't been upgraded since DirectX 8, and are not going to be given that the DirectX 11 components largely replace them. DirectX 11--that ships with Windows 7---comes with Direct3D 11 for graphics rendering, XInput for joystick API control, XAudio and XAudio2 for audio output, and X3DAudio for 3d audio support, etc. That is certainly where the DirectX game APIs are heading, but regardless if you have 9, 10, 11 on your system the DirectX 8 legacy libraries are installed for backwards compatibility reasons. So my point is that it doesn't matter what version of DirectX the person is using as long as they have The DirectX 8 libraries and DX7VB.dll and DX8VB.dll for visual Basic DirectX com support. HTH On 10/23/11, dark <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. > > In this topic, http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=66441#p66441 > the user is reporting having a problem running packman talks 1.1 in windows > xp, despite having direct x 10 and the net framework. I'm not sure if Phil > recieved an E-mail from him, but as his english isn't too good, I thought > I'd pass this on just in case. > > Beware the grue! > > Dark. > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [email protected]. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to [email protected]. > --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
