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Re: Vista users.. Need testers to verify Vista Fix for Dynaverse
« Reply #160 on: December 16, 2008, 03:51:00 pm »
I was  wondering if Vistas Firewall could be blocking  MS Direct play as I  was  asked this  while logging off  the Dyna.

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Re: Vista users.. Need testers to verify Vista Fix for Dynaverse
« Reply #161 on: December 16, 2008, 03:58:50 pm »
Have you tried it with the firewall shut down? With specific exceptions in the firewall for the necessary ports?
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Re: Vista users.. Need testers to verify Vista Fix for Dynaverse
« Reply #162 on: December 16, 2008, 04:03:36 pm »
Check earlier in this thread, we tried running with the Vista firewall completely disabled (as well as stopping its service and all associated services).

I'm not even convinced this is a directplay7 emulation issue. I suspect it goes deeper to the actual windows sockets implementation in Vista. (wsock32.dll - a primary dependency of StarFleetOP.exe which in turn depends on ws2_32.dll [windows sockets 2])

Interestingly, I cannot find any of the directplay dlls in the dependency list for StarFleetOP.exe at all. (as generated by HeavenTools' PE Explorer)
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Re: Vista users.. Need testers to verify Vista Fix for Dynaverse
« Reply #163 on: December 16, 2008, 04:24:51 pm »
OK, Im back home, withboth my desktop and laptop on a OP worthy connection. I should be able to run more extensive tests now :D
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Re: Vista users.. Need testers to verify Vista Fix for Dynaverse
« Reply #164 on: January 12, 2009, 02:35:14 pm »
Has anyone tested with with Windows 7 Beta? 
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Re: Vista users.. Need testers to verify Vista Fix for Dynaverse
« Reply #165 on: January 13, 2009, 02:03:02 am »
Installing Windows 7 Beta now and getting all my software put on it.. will let you know once I get configured if D2 will work correctly..


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