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« 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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« 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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« 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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« Reply #3 on Feb 7, 2008, 1:22pm »

This is great news :)
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« Reply #4 on Feb 16, 2008, 10:30am »

that got it to work on linux too...[image]


now i just gotta get it to run... i think i need to reinstall active x or something

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« Reply #5 on Feb 16, 2008, 10:20pm »

nice work :)
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« Reply #6 on Jun 28, 2008, 10:00am »

I got it to work on vista. :D

Is there any way that the DLL could be registered in the install program?
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« 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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