Vista and SEV

I can not say for shure but one of the big complaints I have herd is that Vista Security does not always play nice with non-vista programs.

To solve this look at Vista's security settings.

Help! I have been assimilated

welcome krelek1000.
i will ask a stupid question 1st. you do have most recent patches and drivers? when i 1st got vista i couldn't get SEV to run on it. but once i downloaded patches and drivers i no longer had problems playing on my system. then again i am using the 64bit version and i know drivers are different.

SE5 generally supports any standard 4:3, 16:9, 16:10, etc., resolution, so long as it is larger than 1024x768. Maybe there is a new bug with ATI drivers? You should get in contact with Malfador (se5 at malfador dot com) about it..

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Here's an easy way to get around most of the security issues with Vista that I seem to have with games, and also with codecs and plug-in installation programs for other programs (Like IE and IrfanView) that I use. It's simple really.

1) Open up Windows (not Internet) Explorer, and browse to the installation program. (Probably only the one file from a service liek Direct2Drive... don't know about the service personally)
2) Right click on the file to bring up the popup context menu.
3) Select 'Run as Administrator'
4) The install program should run like normal, but it should now let it do the installation things that it wouldn't before.

Most times if I've had an installation fail, or the application just acting weird like Krelek, this method will work to fix it... without compromising the native security features in Vista. Sure, it's a pain, but once used to it, I do it with everything.
It seems that even though I am the sole user of my system, and I installed the Vista from the Cd... I am NOT the big head Administrator. This method lets the program install with those rights that I don't seem to have.

Hope this helps someone...
Casca
The Immortal Soldier

User accounts should never have had root-like privileges in Windows in the first place... the fixed security model was a long time in coming. Granted, its going to take more refinement until everything becomes as fluid as Unix/Linux/BSD, but its getting there.

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The main problem I have with my vista install and SE5 is an excessive amount of time to load the ship list window. Besides that, I don't see any other problems besides occasional white flashing when a pop-up window opens behind SE5. Does anyone else with Vista have the long delay with the ship list?

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Me. I have problems with ship and colony lists. 50 ships list loads 20 sec and over 150 colonies list loads few minutes. Every list loads too long for me but these two ...

I've spoke with MM about it, but no solutions so far. This on my dual core Laptop with a Nvidia card - what general config are you running?

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Sempron 3200, GeForce 8600GT, Vista 64bit, 2GB RAM.
Enough for medium details (at least) in most games and databases with thousands of records.

i havent played in a while, i would like to do away with the popup screen idea altogether and just make it so you change screens completely to see different items. maybe that will help with load times, since wont have to keep the mainscreen as well as each popup. i did have load times with the ship and colonies screens.