Windows Vista Premium Home Edition

[hellswraith]

I just recently Upgraded (yea right) to Vista Home Premium Edition / SP1 as my mother board on my XP Box fried and I had to buy a new computer .. So I installed Nwn2 and patched to 1.12 and everything works just fine and I can game with no issues .. I was going to hop in the toolset to work on an underdark area for TSCC that Jl2fn sent to me BUT - - - - - - -

THERE WAS NO BUTTON FOR THE TOOLSET ON MY MENU when I clicked the Icon on my desktop

I found out just a bit ago that I cant get the Toolset start button from my desktop MOTB Icon . But I can get to it if I go to the drive with the CD in it . Unfortunatley when I start the toolset I get a "Neverwinter Nights 2 Toolset has stopped working" error message .. I reinstalled DirectX 9c and upgraded the .net program with NO LUCK ... Iv'e read that this issue is not going to be fixxed until the 1.13 patch ..

In conclusion , VISTA pretty much sucks and Im considering buying a new copy of XP and reformatting my new computer already ...

[Iceshard]

lol use your old XP from the other machine if you still have the OS disk... or did it not come with any?

-Ice

[blackdiamonds]

lol i saw the thread and was looking to see what you posted about vista and guess what an error occured naturally.

[Sojourn]

thats odd I use vista on my laptop and nwn 2 works just fine for me...try this....go to the desktop background and select the classic background to see if that helps...i remember there was some graphics error I had with the toolset but if you switch the desktop background to classic it went away. If not try posting at bioware and searching for a similar error...I know its not solely because of vista because me along with a lot of others use vista and nwn2 works perfectly.

[DEV Jlf2n]

Try this Hells

nwn2forums.bioware.com/forums/viewtopic.html?topic=578019&forum=116

[hellswraith]

I guess Micrsoft pulled the wool over my eyes for a little while but I can officially now confirm that Ms Vista sucks !!! Its a decent looking OS with lots of bells and whistles but as far as combatibilty with other programs it is way under developed .

I not only had issues with the Nwn 2 Toolset button being totally gone but also had a missing file issue on Nwn .. Not to mention several other programs not working or missing files ...

Well I will not be denied from my entertainment and I get extremely ticked off when things dont work the way I want them to .. So I went and bought another copy of Windows Xp as it is the better OS in my humble opinion . Reformatted my machine , reinstalled Xp , loaded up Nwn 2 and viola my toolset is there again .

Morale of the story is that MS VISTA is a Piece of Crap Os that is , overly bugged , overly priced , and should be avoided like the plague IMO ..

[norikcain]

Yeah i went and bought a new laptop for Uni and found that they only came with Vista. And hearing all the bad things about it i was a bit wary. But i needed it so i had to buy it. And i can tell you i hate the user account control setting thing that makes you click "approve" for every damn program you run on the computer if i didnt want to run it i wouldnt have clicked on it Luckily i found a way to disable this very annoying function Also I made sure i set the desktop to classic view. Before that the desktop was using up over 50mb of mem, compared to only 4mb when in classic. Free up some mem for NWN

[grassblade]

I'm running Vista Ultimate (64-bit OS, 4mb RAM, nVideo 8800 gtx 768mb) and my Toolset exe is in the folder and runs when clicked. I can't say that it actually works, other than informing me I can't save an empty file, because I have yet to try programming with it.

Do I have problems with Vista? Yes, but most are because I try to play 16-bit games without dosBox. Then again most of my non-game programs are either openSource or M$