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Title: The Last Starfighter + Vista
Post by: whynotpizza on July 11, 2007, 09:03:22 pm

Hey guys,

Anyone get this to work (under Vista)?

  http://www.roguesynapse.com/games/last_starfighter.php


   David

Title: Re: The Last Starfighter + Vista
Post by: Zero_Hour on July 12, 2007, 01:04:10 am

Gave it a try, and I did get it to work, but you need a DLL file from XP - d3drm.dll.

If you don't have an XP machine to grab it from you can get it here -
http://www.driverskit.net/dll/get/494.html

Unzip and place it in your Windows/system32 folder

Hope it works for you.  :cheers:

Title: Re: The Last Starfighter + Vista
Post by: NightGod on July 12, 2007, 02:02:55 am

What Zh said, though I just put the .dll into the program directory for the game, I hate adding random DLLs to my Windows directory.

Title: Re: The Last Starfighter + Vista
Post by: Zero_Hour on July 12, 2007, 02:12:36 am

Quote from: NightGod on July 12, 2007, 02:02:55 am

What Zh said, though I just put the .dll into the program directory for the game, I hate adding random DLLs to my Windows directory.

Glad to know that works as well. I simply put it in the system folder, because after gogling the problem, I found a fair number of programs that seem to have this problem. This early in the Vista cycle, I just thought it might save me future aggravation.

Title: Re: The Last Starfighter + Vista
Post by: whynotpizza on July 12, 2007, 07:34:53 am

Cool, thanks! :)

Worked like a champ copying the file from XP.

Now all I need to do is figure out how to remap keys on my control panel and I'll be set.

Thanks again...

    David

Title: Re: The Last Starfighter + Vista
Post by: amerish on July 12, 2007, 09:49:53 pm

Downloaded it, did not work. After confirmation of the necessary hardware, all I got was a grid displayed on screen.

That is with a windows xp pro with sp2.

Oh well, perhaps I will try to config it later....

Title: Re: The Last Starfighter + Vista
Post by: NightGod on July 13, 2007, 01:09:46 am

Once you get the grid, wait a minute or so, maybe smack some keys, it will eventually move past it.