No Text being displayed in Windows Vista

[isorfir]

This is odd. I played the game on my laptop and it worked fine, but when I installed it on my desktop, there is no text. I get blank text boxes. They are both running Windows Vista Ultimate x64 SP1. I tried uninstalling/reinstalling, no change.

[Alex]

Hmm, I'll have a think!

[axussriddare]

I suggest not using Vista. It is constructed to severely decrease quality of sound, graphics and processor speed if you do something the computer doesn't like. Say, play a pirated game or a game not in a databank somewhere.

[wogan]

I suggest not using Vista. It is constructed to severely decrease quality of sound, graphics and processor speed if you do something the computer doesn't like. Say, play a pirated game or a game not in a databank somewhere.

Lol, you're paranoid. If a game's quality decreases, that's solely the fault of the game. I run many ... otherwise acquired games on Vista with no hassles. Stuff like CS:S, KOTOR, Halo, HL2 - they all run just fine. Office '07 too, if you're curious.

The only place a "databank" factors into it is when a game registers in your Games folder - Vista will look up game info via Microsoft, but believe me, it doesn't do anything malicious against copied games.

[axussriddare]

Well, maybe I'm paranoid, but the truth remains. Vista is the OS equivalent to a police state.

[wogan]

@axussriddare Let me guess - you're not actually using Vista, are you? You sound like I did before I actually tried it for myself, and the FBI still isn't kicking down my door. If anything, iTunes is a shining example of DRM, not Vista.

[axussriddare]

I'm not using Vista, no. And I never will be. Since I see that I cannot convince you, and since I know you cannot convince me, lets just let this drop. Ok?

[wogan]

Digital mexican standoff! I can live with that

[Alex]

I use iTunes

[wogan]

I use iTunes

Noooo! I have no faith left in the human race

Lol j/k. To each their own. My music collection has to move around _way_ too much

[Alex]

I have no problems moving my music around. I just point iTunes to where it is and it works out the rest. One good thing about that is that it forces me to keep the tag information up to date / correct. These days I even let iTunes organise it for me so it puts them into artist/album directories, saves me some time. New music just gets dragged into iTunes and it moves it to the right place for me.

I even... bought some mousic on iTunes recently 

[wogan]

I guess you're right. It's just that the last time I tried iTunes, it was in 2007, and it wasn't my favorite by a long shot. I guess it makes sense if you collect albums, have an iPod and better musical tastes than me, lol.

[Alex]

Don't get me wrong. It destroyed my MP3 collection once. The collection had hardly any ID3 information in it, and I accidentally checked "keep it tidy". iTunes went on to move several thousand files into the same directory, introduced "unknown artist" "unknown track" into the ID3 data, and truncated the filenames to 30 characters, which obviously lost me a lot of the vital information on what the tracks actually were. I was forced to simply delete it all.

[wogan]

Delete it? Why? I'd be like "OMG, rediscover my music all over again!"

Far as I'm concerned, media players shouldn't have direct control over your content. WMP, for instance, will only mess around with your files on direct instruction. It feels safer that way