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Game Crashes in Vista

Discussion in 'Icewind Dale (Classic)' started by thenightowl1234, Nov 2, 2010.

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    [​IMG] I am running Icewind Dale in Vista 64-bit, and the game has been running with few crashes. I am in Dragon's Eye, ready to descend to the level Yxunomei is on, and the game crashes and exits to desktop, with the standard "Icewind Dale has stopped working. Looking for a solution..." window prompt.

    Is it Vista or the game? I just downloaded a patch and installed that tonight, but wanted to find out ahead of time if anyone's having this issue, and if the patch is irrelevant. Thanks for any help!
     
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    Please try writing not in all bold type, it's a cancer on the eye. Only all caps is worse.

    As for your problem, try running IWD in Win98/WinXP compatibility mode and as an administrator. That should do the trick.

    More general, Vista 64bit is notoriously unstable with older games. Upgrade to Windows 7 if you can. It's a significantly better OS.
     
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    Bold, Caps and Thanks For Help--Oh My

    Hi Ragusa,


    I'll give the XP option/admin thing a shot. Hopefully it will work (and I'll update this if it does, in case others have the same issue, which I am sure Vista users do).

    (As for the bold type option, sorry if that somehow annoyed you. Personally, I don't think it is a big deal; I think the cap thing is what's annoying, because it "looks" like someone is yelling. Furthermore, I had bold-faced it because I was having a hard time reading what I typed on my laptop. I was having problems with my eyes all week. Hence, this made it easier for me, and I simply forgot to "un-bold" it when I finished proofing what I wrote.)


    Kris
     
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    Ragusa, just happened to read this the other day while setting up Vista and your advice not only works for IWD but for the Sacred games too. I would never have thought of it and didn't realize it was so easy to set up. Thanks.
     
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