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Post by matthew on Feb 1, 2008 20:57:11 GMT -5
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\System32Open the Command Prompt by 'Right-Clicking' and select 'Run as administrator'.  Then register the dll by typing... regsvr32 dx8vb.dll Start up Brutus2D and the examples should work.    |
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Post by Guilect on Feb 2, 2008 19:58:42 GMT -5
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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Post by matthew on Feb 2, 2008 21:16:12 GMT -5
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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Post by u9 on Feb 7, 2008 13:22:24 GMT -5
This is great news |
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Post by OddChild on Feb 16, 2008 10:30:53 GMT -5
that got it to work on linux too...  now i just gotta get it to run... i think i need to reinstall active x or something  |
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Post by matthew on Feb 16, 2008 22:20:23 GMT -5
nice work |
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Post by OddChild on Jun 28, 2008 10:00:53 GMT -5
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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Post by matthew on Jun 28, 2008 20:02:26 GMT -5
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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Post by mopz on Apr 8, 2011 2:24:38 GMT -5
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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Post by matthew on Apr 8, 2011 4:13:01 GMT -5
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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Post by mopz on Apr 8, 2011 12:42:59 GMT -5
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? 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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Post by matthew on Apr 8, 2011 13:06:08 GMT -5
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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Post by mopz on Apr 9, 2011 1:46:55 GMT -5
That's where I put it, but I missed the "Run as administrator" part. Now it works ;D
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