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|  | Brutus2D on Vista
« Thread Started on Feb 1, 2008, 8:57pm » | |
I've got Brutus2D working on Vista.
This is what I did...
Get a copy of dx8vb.dll from here.
Extract it and place a copy in the following directory.
C:\Windows\System32
Open the Command Prompt by 'Right-Clicking' and select 'Run as administrator'.
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Then register the dll by typing...
regsvr32 dx8vb.dll
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Start up Brutus2D and the examples should work. 
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|  | Re: Brutus2D on Vista
« Reply #1 on Feb 2, 2008, 7:58pm » | |
Hey Matthew,
That's great news. Thanks for trying and sharing the info.
I did not think that it would be to difficult to get it up and running.
I am a little surprised that you would need to place the dll in 2 places.
I would have thought that just having it in the C:\Windows\system directory would have been enough. Usually once you register a file then every application that needs it would know where to find it.
So now, folks that would like use the B2D developement environment on Vista have a way to do so.
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| | Re: Brutus2D on Vista
« Reply #2 on Feb 2, 2008, 9:16pm » | |
I also thought Brutus would have worked if the dll was placed in one folder.
So I uninstalled the program and deleted the dlls from the two folders, then I reinstalled Brutus2D and placed the dll in the System32 folder.
It worked fine, so I'll update the instructions in the original post.
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| | Re: Brutus2D on Vista
« Reply #3 on Feb 7, 2008, 1:22pm » | |
This is great news
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| | Re: Brutus2D on Vista
« Reply #5 on Feb 16, 2008, 10:20pm » | |
nice work
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| | Re: Brutus2D on Vista
« Reply #6 on Jun 28, 2008, 10:00am » | |
I got it to work on vista. 
Is there any way that the DLL could be registered in the install program?
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| | Re: Brutus2D on Vista
« Reply #7 on Jun 28, 2008, 8:02pm » | |
I was thinking of something similar but I think bundling the dx8vb dll with Brutus2D might be questionable from a legal standpoint. 
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| | Re: Brutus2D on Vista
« Reply #8 on Apr 8, 2011, 2:24am » | |
I'm using win7 and I've installed the dll, but when I try to run any of the examples I get a "Graphics terminated" error. Any idea of what it might be about?
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| | Re: Brutus2D on Vista
« Reply #9 on Apr 8, 2011, 4:13am » | |
Hi mopz welcome to the forum.
The "Graphics Terminated" error would seem to happen if the dll hasn't been registered correctly. Sadly I no-longer have the Vista laptop after it broke & I haven't got Windows 7 either, I'm using XP.
You haven't got a 64-bit machine have you?
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| | Re: Brutus2D on Vista
« Reply #10 on Apr 8, 2011, 12:42pm » | |
Apr 8, 2011, 4:13am, matthew wrote:Hi mopz welcome to the forum.
The "Graphics Terminated" error would seem to happen if the dll hasn't been registered correctly. Sadly I no-longer have the Vista laptop after it broke & I haven't got Windows 7 either, I'm using XP.
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I've tried regestering it as you suggested earler in this topic, but then I get some weird error code. It's a 64-bit machine. Could that be the problem? I have no idea, I'm lousy at these things 
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| | Re: Brutus2D on Vista
« Reply #11 on Apr 8, 2011, 1:06pm » | |
Ah if it's a 64-bit machine instead of registering the dll in your Windows\System32 folder. It needs to be placed & registered in your Windows\SysWOW64 folder.
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| | Re: Brutus2D on Vista
« Reply #12 on Apr 9, 2011, 1:46am » | |
That's where I put it, but I missed the "Run as administrator" part. Now it works 
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