Windows Vista Compatibility

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Is there anything in allegro.log?

It gives me everything Okay and all.. but here is the log:

ZQuest v2.11 Beta (Build 16)
Allocating MIDI buffer (9.84k/9.84k)... OK
Allocating Enhanced Music buffer (69.00k/78.84k)... OK
Allocating map buffer (633.25k/712.09k)... OK
Allocating combo buffer (5.98k/718.07k)... OK
Allocating string buffer (9.75M/10.45M)... OK
Allocating door combo buffer (159.50k/10.61M)... OK
Allocating dmap buffer (236.00k/10.84M)... OK
Allocating combo buffer (1.62M/12.46M)... OK
Allocating color data buffer (158.11k/12.61M)... OK
Allocating tile buffer (511.88k/21.11M)... OK
Allocating tile grab buffer (511.88k/29.61M)... OK
Allocating trash buffer (97.66k/29.70M)... OK
Allocating item buffer (17.00k/29.72M)... OK
Allocating weapon buffer (2.00k/29.72M)... OK
Allocating guy buffer (20.00k/29.74M)... OK
Allocating combo class buffer (29.39k/29.77M)... OK
Allocating combo undo buffer (1.62M/31.39M)... OK
Allocating new undo tile buffer (511.88k/31.89M)... OK
Resetting new tile buffer...OK
Allocating file path buffers (10.00k/31.90M)... OK
Initializing Allegro... OK
Loading data files:
Fonts.Dat...OK
QST.Dat...ZQuest.Dat...OK
OK
SFX.Dat...OK
OK
Initializing sound driver... OK
OK
Loading Quest...
Decrypting...okay.
Opening...okay.
Reading Header...okay.
Reading Rules...okay.
Reading Strings...okay.
Reading Doors...okay.
Reading DMaps...okay.
Reading Misc. Data...okay.
Reading Items...okay.
Reading Weapons...okay.
Reading Maps...okay.
Reading Combos...okay.
Reading Combo Aliases...okay.
Reading Color Data...okay.
Reading Tiles...okay.
Reading MIDIs...okay.
Reading Cheat Codes...okay.
Reading Init. Data...okay.
Reading Custom Guy Data...okay.
Reading Custom Link Sprite Data...okay.
Done.
Loading Quest...
Decrypting...okay.
Opening...okay.
Reading Header...okay.
Reading Rules...okay.
Reading Strings...okay.
Reading Doors...okay.
Reading DMaps...okay.
Reading Misc. Data...okay.
Reading Items...okay.
Reading Weapons...okay.

EDIT: It happens when opening a file or saving it. It also kills the Aero theme too. 😞

have you tryied playing it with aero completely disabled?

franpa wrote:have you tryied playing it with aero completely disabled?

Looks like Alpha219 works. ..Hopefully the future versions will too. :uhoh:

A number of random illegal memory accesses have been fixed in the alphas, maybe one of those was causing this issue. Please let us know if the problem reappears.

Uh oh. ZC doesn't work at all. Slow, and all the tiles are horribly messed up.

(Oh, and I'm running them with Admin privilages BTW.)

There have been a lot of posts explaining that ZC will work if the ZC Launcher is used on a Vista machine. I for one can verify that this works. Can we effectively call this dead or at least limbo since the program is working even if it's not perfect compatibility?

Yes, to Limbo it goes. Vista issues cannot be rigorously considered until 1) the Allegro folks get their act together, and 2) a ZC developer gets Vista.