What prevents running this on 98SE?

[dtamonis]

Hello,

This is a very nice freeware photo stacking software, and I really love it. However, starting from version 3, I cannot run it on win98, I get an exception in MSVCR80.DLL. I'd be really grateful if someone could try to install and run it, and possibly tell why it doesn't run and if it's possible to do something about it. Its author is also a very nice person, I contacted him once with this problem, he said that, theoretically, it should run, as it only uses GDI+ resources. Of course, he cannot test it on win98 as he doesn't have it and he has better things to do, like improve the software. But if I could tell him the exact reason why it doesn't run, maybe he could implement win98 support just for me.

BTW, I don't have KernelEx installed (I have problems watching movies with it installed), nor any of those user packs. I'm reluctant to install them, but if I get confirmation that it runs with those packs, I'll have to consider installing them.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[BenoitRen]

Well, what is the exception in the DLL? Chances are that it's a missing *W API call to retrieve your home directory, in which case the problem is that the program was compiled in Visual Studio 2008, which doesn't support Win9x (or NT4 for that matter).

[dtamonis]

Well, what is the exception in the DLL? Chances are that it's a missing *W API call to retrieve your home directory, in which case the problem is that the program was compiled in Visual Studio 2008, which doesn't support Win9x (or NT4 for that matter).

Well, here's how the error message window looks, for me it doesn't tell much... I tried various versions of MSVCR80.DLL - all the same.