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  1. Hi again guys, I come bearing... err... news. I can't really say good or bad as it's a mixture of both. I've successfully installed Windows Vista Ultimate x86 32-bit and it works a treat. I upgraded straight from my previous Windows, XP Home Edition 32-bit. I managed to modify Vista using vLite by uninstalling Norton Antivirus 2007 (thanks a lot guys, I never actually thought it would have worked but it did!! ). I can safely say that vLite hates Norton 2007 and you'll have to uninstall it if you have it installed to run vLite. Unfortunately, once Vista is up and running, the problems start. Norton 2007 and less just won't run on Vista at all. I can't run the installer because it says my OS isn't Windows and can not install the program. This is incredibly annoying as I've still got around 200+ days left on my Norton subscription. I feel like I've been conned now as Symantec provide no information about a Vista compatibility update for any of their programs. All they say is to check back on the page in the future until they've produced some patches. What a waste, huh? In the end I settled on downloading Norton 360 Beta 15 day trial version as it's one of the only Norton programs currently compatible with Vista. It works great and appears so far to be a lot better than Norton Antivirus 2007, bundling lots more features. But this doesn't excuse the 30/40 odd quid I'm down on if I stop using Norton 2007... I hope Symantec bring a solution out soon to the Norton 2007 with Vista compatibility tiff. The problems don't end here, either. An internet connection is one of life's beauty's I was deprived of after upgrading to Vista. I have a Wanadoo (now owned by Orange) Livebox an I use a wifi connection to access the internet. If anyone else is having a problem with this, it turns out you have to change your Livebox's security settings to WEP key only, not WEP and WPA at the same time. The installation disk I use to install the wifi adapter's drivers etc didn't work with Vista either, so I went through Windows' wifi connection wizard and it seems to work just fine. For now... Another quite confusing and infuriating problem with Vista other than all this is that I can't access My Pictures, My Music or My Videos through explorer. However, if I click on the shortcut button on the left of the explorer window for either My Pictures or My Music, I can access them! There's no My Videos shortcut button though, preventing me from getting in there at all. Note that I have removed the UAC (User Account Control) with vLite from the beginning so I am always the administrator of the PC with full administrative access. It tells me the folder is not accessible and that access is denied. How rude. I bet there's a setting somewhere in Control Panel or something that removes this ridiculous restriction, but until I am aware of it, I'm banished from getting into My Videos. I don't think there's much else to report, I'll post back with any other happenings if I encounter any more. Visually, Vista looks fantastic and is generally very stable and is no slower on my machine than Windows XP Home Edition was. Games run OK on the whole, but not quite as fantastic as XP yet because I still need to find compatible drivers for my unique video card. Note to people looking towards installing Windows Vista: it'll chew up hours of your time upgrading from a previous version of Windows, it'll probably eat up a lot of time installing Vista from scratch, too. So set aside a lot of time for this. Even after it's installed, you're bound to have a lot of drivers that need to be updated to work with Vista. Make sure your internet connection works and let Vista do most of the hard work. Some drivers it obviously won't be able to update so mooch around the websites where your original drivers came from or Google them. Also note: if you have one or more current Norton Antivirus (or possibly other antivirus programs) subscriptions, I suggest not upgrading if you've only recently signed up to them because chances are highly likely that they won't be able to work with Vista and you'll have wasted your money, like I did, and you'll be forced to either wait for patches to come out or look to alternatives. I hope some of that helps, I'd also appreciate it if perhaps some of you guys could take a look at my problems described and see if you know anything about them. Cheers! Edit: Haha!! I've found I can access My Videos by using the left-hand screen in explorer instead of the right. Very strange!!
  2. Hi guys, I'm having this exact same problem with vLite 0.8 Beta. I can run it, configure the options, browse to the Vista folder, select the Vista version I'd like and... oh, system crash. The whole system reboots itself. Bummer. :/ After reading through this thread, I'm guessing my problem is down to the WIM drivers conflicting with my antivirus. I'm using Norton 2007, as already mentioned by someone. I'm going to try to simply exit Norton and close it all down and then try vLite to see if it works, but what some of you have been mentioning is uninstalling the antivirus and/or clean installing XP or Vista. My machine has XP Home (SP2) with plenty of hardware to handle Vista and whatever else I throw at it, including more than enough RAM required (2GB at my disposal). I'm afraid, though, uninstalling Norton 2007, for me, is pretty much out of the question because mine was purchased and downloaded from the official Norton website and I'm not 100% sure if the codes for reinstalling the program will still work. I *should* still have the activation codes somewhere on my PC as I'm almost certain I've taken a screenshot of the receipt I got from it and that I think has the details on it or something like that. either way I'm a pretty careful person and usually printscreen anything important. Anyone else tried reinstalling Norton 2007 and can confirm for me if it works? (Legit version, legally purchased only) Going to try nLite now with Norton switched off... fingers crossed. Cheers Edit: Ok, I've never actually tried to exit Norton 2007, but it just doesn't seem possible. There's no option to do so (as far as I can see) and no process running in the background visible by TaskManger to end. This might be more tricky than I thought... Oh, and also, Markus, you said there was a fix discovered, do you know what it was? Would you mind sharing it with us? Thanks in advance.
  3. Botter? That's a good point. One reason why I'm not going to try it. I suppose the other reason is basically because you'd really have to be good enough to get a higher kill to death ratio than 3:2- so for example if you die 10 times, to earn any money at all you'd have to kill more than 15 people. The risky thing is, that's my average skill... I more commonly than not get the same amount of kills as deaths with half added on again in kills. I have a feeling the people already playing are either pro with the odd rare novice or botters. Shame really. Whoa! That's amazing, I didn't think of that... what a brilliant set-up! Very clever idea...
  4. Got the latest PC Gamer magazine and inside was an advertisement for this 'Cash for Kills' sceme, whereby on Counter-Strike: Source and Battlefield 2, for every kill you get, 50p gets transfered to your PayPal account. Seems like a wacky idea to me, it's probably been around for some time but I've only recently come across it, myself. The catches seem to be that you must start by creating a balance, ie: you have to put a minimum of £10 into your account to begin with and for every death you get, you get 75p deducted from your account. All you do is play on one of their servers and your kills and deaths are logged and your money changes accordingly in real-time. Anyone heard of this or even part of this or another such sceme? I'm just curious as to whether it's actually worth the bother or not. The website is www.fragcash.com though there may be better ones out there. Any thoughts anyone?
  5. Looks like a friggin' sweet game considering it's free... downloading now. Another good free game (that was mentioned recently) is Trackmania Nations which can be downloaded from here: http://www.trackmanianations.com/indexUk.php The bandwidth allowance isn't brilliant for downloading directly from their site, although I did find a better link by Googling the game. Completely different to America's Army as it's a racing game, but some lovely graphics and a track editor are shoved into this awesome online racing game. Worth a look if you fancy racing games.
  6. Hi My problem concerns something I, personally (after lurking in these forums a few weeks) havn't seen any direct mention of or fix. I have no problem running the game as I have a tip-top PC (just say if you want the specs) and although I've read a few topics concerning the lack of sound in F.E.A.R, my problem is perhaps a little less complicated. I have the ambient sounds and music as far as I can tell, but no speech, other than the first voice that answers the phone in the beginning- before going into what looks like some briefing room with the 2 men and a woman and the monitor displaying the vampire dude and all the blood etc. I also get the scream from the guy in the beginning where the girl walks through the cell door. What I've tried and done so far: I've updated the game to version 1.08 via the '100-107 to 108' patch or whatever it's called and the game doesn't compain about a newer version found. I've tried installing different driver versions for the files known to have caused problems for others: imaadp32.acm and msadp32.acm I've tried running the game from a fresh install and from the patch to no avail. The driver changes don't seem to make a difference either. I must confess, I coundn't locate the versions of the drivers other people mentioned of: 5.0xxx. The drivers beforehand were version 5.1xxx and I could only find version 4.xxx which was apparently from Windows 95/98. The drivers I were looking for were from Win 2000. Maybe if someone had these driver versions they could upload them, just to see if it would work? I don't have anything special (I don't think) in the way of my sound card; it's some in-built one I don't know the make of but I could probably find out in the motherboard manual if anyone wants to know. What else can I say, other than I've never (to my knownledge) had any problems with sound before in any of my games. I bought Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter with F.E.A.R. and that works fine. This issue is really annoying to me as I've recently, in the last month, upgraded my gfx card to the best AGP on the market and that works splendidly. Ah what the heck, here are my basic system specs Pentium 4, 3.0Ghz HT Gainward GeForce 7800GS 512mb AGP 2Gb Corsair and Kingston value RAM at 333Mhz ASRock P4S61 Motherboard with 5.1 AC'97 in-built audio It's a custom-built machine and I think that's all I know that'll be of any help. Any feedback appreciated. Cheers
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