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malgor
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posted March 07, 2007 05:34 PM |
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Windows Vista and HOMMV?
I just got a new PC from Dell and it has windows Vista.
I love the pc, with it's 20" widescreen flat panel monitor and excellerated graphics PCI express ATI card.
However, when I installed HOMMV, besides all the annoying pop ups making sure I have the 'rights and priveleges' to install the program, a very peculiar thing happened.
I love creating maps, mostly for myself or to share with friends I play online with.
With Windows Vista though my "maps" folder is missing, though in the editor it says that's where it's putting my maps.
If I open C rogram files/Ubisoft/Heroes of Might and Magic V there is no maps folder.
Anyone using Vista know what / how I can make it appear. I've gone through and tried to give myself all the priveleges I can so that everything appears, but my maps folder still is somehow hidden.
Thanks in advance!
Malgor
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Gnoll_Mage
Responsible
Supreme Hero
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posted March 07, 2007 06:58 PM |
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Well I don't have Vista, but if that problem were on XP here are a few things I'd try
 Typing it in the explorer address bar
Making sure in Folder Options that I have "View hidden folders" on
Opening command prompt by going Start=>Run=>cmd then typing in "cd C:\...\maps" or whatever
These could be impossible or useless on Vista for all I know.
So the editor can see the folder and contents but explorer can't?...
PS What is Vista like? My copy should be arriving soon.
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Jinxer
Legendary Hero
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posted March 07, 2007 08:19 PM |
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I also have Vista and I know where your Maps are going.... when you have maps folder open look at the top it should say compatibilty files....open that up...and your new map is there. You need to basically move it from there to maps giving permission so to speak for it to be in general population with rest of files hehe.
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malgor
Hired Hero
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posted March 08, 2007 06:08 AM |
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I also have Vista and I know where your Maps are going.... when you have maps folder open look at the top it should say compatibilty files....open that up...and your new map is there. You need to basically move it from there to maps giving permission so to speak for it to be in general population with rest of files hehe.
That worked. Finally found my maps!
To answer the other poster, Vista is... beautiful and .... annoying.
If you leave the preset safety settings in place, you get an annoying pop up EVERY time you do something. Sometimes two to three popups to perform one function!
Good luck and thanks again!
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nevermind
Famous Hero
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posted March 08, 2007 06:43 AM |
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I just got a new PC from Dell and it has windows Vista.
I love the pc, with it's 20" widescreen flat panel monitor and excellerated graphics PCI express ATI card.
However, when I installed HOMMV, besides all the annoying pop ups making sure I have the 'rights and priveleges' to install the program, a very peculiar thing happened.
I love creating maps, mostly for myself or to share with friends I play online with.
With Windows Vista though my "maps" folder is missing, though in the editor it says that's where it's putting my maps.
If I open Crogram files/Ubisoft/Heroes of Might and Magic V there is no maps folder.
Anyone using Vista know what / how I can make it appear. I've gone through and tried to give myself all the priveleges I can so that everything appears, but my maps folder still is somehow hidden.
Thanks in advance!
Malgor
Thats not a vista problem , Thats a heroes if u wanna call it bug - bug ,Its simple none of the patches (even the one giving map editor) creates a maps folder - there are 2 ways which will create it :
1) create it yourself.
2) create a map using map editor and it will make it automatically.
As to your complaints about vista there are quite well known , vista is indeed very beutifull and has many good things but i would not install vista probably ever again for those mentioned reasons , also for the simple reason that it is very slow for computer games (compared to winxp and win2003 ofcourse)
Even if your computer is a beast which runs even homm on it quite fine it will always run faster on another os and speed is the most important thing for me more then those TINY improvments most of them visual.
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lord_crusader
Promising
Supreme Hero
UHU!! supreme!
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posted March 19, 2007 07:28 PM |
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I think this is only matter of time... is like when xp comes out... takes sometime to take away bugs and a lot of other issues... next year will be the year for vista
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nevermind
Famous Hero
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posted March 19, 2007 10:20 PM |
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I think this is only matter of time... is like when xp comes out... takes sometime to take away bugs and a lot of other issues... next year will be the year for vista
No i hope vista with its "improvments" is the last version of windows the end of microsoft and start the linux domination - Maybe i'm a fool but i hope for great things.
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lord_crusader
Promising
Supreme Hero
UHU!! supreme!
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posted March 20, 2007 12:04 AM |
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lol well if the pc will remaing as gaming plataform that will be almost impossible... directx 10 is the only real great thing about vista... but is not ready yet
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Yasmiel
Supreme Hero
Former Chessmaster
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posted March 20, 2007 12:06 AM |
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I really don't have any major complaints about Vista.
After using it for a month, i don't think i could ever go back to XP.
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Strider_HL
Famous Hero
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posted March 20, 2007 09:27 AM |
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Is H5 on Vista REALLY slower than on XP (providing that comp has 2GB RAM)???
Are there any graphics or other deteriorations when playing H5 on Vista?
To quote Vista campaign:
"Vista significantly improves gaming speed...."
Is that an empty promise or Microsoft is counting on that DirectX 10??? And when?
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lord_crusader
Promising
Supreme Hero
UHU!! supreme!
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posted March 20, 2007 07:07 PM |
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Is H5 on Vista REALLY slower than on XP (providing that comp has 2GB RAM)???
Are there any graphics or other deteriorations when playing H5 on Vista?
To quote Vista campaign:
"Vista significantly improves gaming speed...."
Is that an empty promise or Microsoft is counting on that DirectX 10??? And when?
the problem with that is that you need first:
- directx10
- directx 10 video card
- directx 10 coded video game
and then you will see what is this about...
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strider_hl
Famous Hero
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posted March 26, 2007 11:23 PM |
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Will GeForce Go 7600 and ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 (both are notebook graphic cards) be compatible/able to use this future DirectX10? There are cards that don't work with DirecX versions?
Has anyone else tried H5 on Vista and compared its performance to the one on XP platform?
I need to be SURE that H5 will lose when run on Vista... won't buy it in that case grr
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lord_crusader
Promising
Supreme Hero
UHU!! supreme!
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posted March 26, 2007 11:52 PM |
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nope none x1600 or 7600 will run fully compatible directx10... I mean the games in directx10 will run... but without all the nice new features that dx10 offers... I have tried the ralease candidate 1 and 2, and heroes suffer about 10% of performance decrease with my PC... (Pentium 4 2.8 ghz 1gb ram ATI radeonX1600) not much to be honest...
as for the directx10 cards now are only 1 out in the market and is the nvidia gforce 8800, ati has not realeased something yet... but as far as I know they will launch his radeon X2 series lately this month and this will be 100% compatible with directx10
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vesuvius
Hero of Order
Honor Above all Else
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posted March 27, 2007 06:39 AM |
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I've been holding back on getting my new PC until vista, dx10, new competing geforce cards (beyond the 8800 etc) are all up to par.
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