This is what i did to get it working on Windows 7 Ultimate X86
When I downloaded the distro which i purchaced and installed
It was at v1.13 so i went to the update secuton from the menu on the DBC web page and d/loaded the 1.20 update and copied all the files accross as told
Then I
Quote: "
right click on DB.exe
select Properties
open Compatability Tab
Tick these boxes
Disable Visual Themes
Disable Desktop composition
Disable display scaling on hi DPI settings
Run as Administrator
click apply and close the properties window
"
Then I had to create the setup.ini (because after the install it wasn't in there) and paste in these settings
(I believe that it requres a copy of this file in every executables distribution/directory from what i've read in other threads on the forum)
[SETTINGS]
TextLanguage=English
TextLanguage-Charset=1
HelpLanguage=English
HelpLanguage-Charset=1
HelpFontSize=0
ExternalEditor=None
blitflipmode=1
vbcreate=0
vbusage=0
3doverlay=0
runtimetest=1
tracemode=0
windowmode=0
popupoff=0
; Test and Trace Settings
; ----------------
; runtimetest: 0=simple error reporting / 1=advanced error reporting
; tracemode: 0=no trace information / 1=produce trace files
; Compatabilitiy Settings
; ----------------
; windowmode: 0=no window / 1=run in window
; blitoverdraw : 0=normal / 1=Draw All 2D twice
; blitflipmode : 0=double videomem flip / 1=blit to video memory
; runtimetest : 0=no extra error data / 1=produce extra error data
; vbcreate : 0=normal / 1=WriteOnly / 2=No Clip / 3=[1]+[2] / 4=SystemMem
; vbusage : 0=normal / 1=Wait / 2=WriteOnly and Wait / 3=SurfaceMem and Wait
; 3doverlay : 0=normal / 1=Utilize ZBuffer Clear for overlapped 3D rendering
; StartUp Settings
; ----------------
; Use a SETUP.INI file with the [STARTUP] keys below to
; control the initial state of your application:-
; eg. window=1 will start your app in a window
[STARTUP]
window=0
winposx=0
winposy=0
winsizex=640
winsizey=480
; CharSet Codes
; -------------
; DEFAULT_CHARSET 1
; SYMBOL_CHARSET 2
; SHIFTJIS_CHARSET 128
; HANGEUL_CHARSET 129
; HANGUL_CHARSET 129
; GB2312_CHARSET 134
; CHINESEBIG5_CHARSET 136
; OEM_CHARSET 255
; JOHAB_CHARSET 130
; HEBREW_CHARSET 177
; ARABIC_CHARSET 178
; GREEK_CHARSET 161
; TURKISH_CHARSET 162
; VIETNAMESE_CHARSET 163
; THAI_CHARSET 222
; EASTEUROPE_CHARSET 238
; RUSSIAN_CHARSET 204
; MAC_CHARSET 77
; BALTIC_CHARSET 186
Then i copied the d3drm.dll file from the DarkBasic directory to the windows/system32/ directory
(this was so that and compiled programs would find it)