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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Does DBpro work and in NT baseed envroment?

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The Terminator
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Posted: 2nd Sep 2003 23:41
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Hey guys I was wonding if DarkBasic Professinal works in NT
because I'm using Windows 98SE and I just got my Windows 2003 CD

Does anyone know if it works in Windows 2000 because if it does chances are that it will work in 2003 too.

Thanks

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CattleRustler
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Posted: 2nd Sep 2003 23:47
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dbp works in 2000 or better.
NT4 doesn't support direct x higher than 3

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OSX Using Happy Dude
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Should work with Server 2003 though.


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DMXtra
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Yes DBPro works with Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows 2003 Server.

It does not work with Windows NT 4.x or earlier. Which is no big deal since everyone should be running one of the above anyway.

Hardly anyone will be running NT 4.x or earlier anymore and if they do, they are not playing games on it.

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spooky
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Tell me about it! ALL my work pc's are NT4 and so when bosses are off, I can't play with DB. Have to either browse net, play MAME games or, shock horror, actually do some work!

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BatVink
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I'm running quite happily on Win 2K & DirectX 9

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ifman1
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That's why DirectX should go away and we should all go to OpenGL!!! Yeah! And Linux, oh wait, Linux sucks... skip the linux part. But OpenGL... with GLUT, or so we're truly cross-platform so people can make games for Linux, so it won't suck so bad.


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Shadow Robert
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OpenGL is a terrible APi unless you have ALOT of experience in it... and the added annoyance that you have to really program each card type individually.

DirectX is the best for overall support, not to mention it isn't just a graphics APi but an entire system APi - for controling every peice of hardware within a Windows based computer.

Anyway, anyone who is serious about playing games would've upgraded from Windows Network 4 long ago ... as it is seriously bugged and really not for home use, and people at work shouldn't be playing games whilst they work. Your there to do a job not play about.

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DirectX 8.1 support Windows 98, Windows 98SE, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows Server 2000, Windows XP Home, Windows XP Professional, Windows Server 2003, Windows "Longhorn" .Net

DirectX 9.0 supports all of the above, however has ALOT of known problems under Windows9x systems ... Windows98 & Millennium Edition have known stability problems oftenly preventing devices to be created or even detecting that your using version 9.0
which can be frustrating at times.

Windows 98SE seems to be unaffected by this bug for some reason though.

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brittd99
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Well I use it at work on my one hour lunch breaks. Glad my bosses let us run free range of Software as long as it is not P2P file swappers.

Should Tell your boss the WinNT platform is soon being drop for support by Microsoft and no patches will be supported created for nasty bugs like the msblast.exe virus. Maybe he will rethink of upgrading the OS.
If it is a Software issue Win2000/XP/2003 all have combatiblity modes that make software think it is running on an NT computer.
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Shadow Robert
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i installed the MSBlast patch for WindowsXP, and well it killed it... had to end up doing a complete reinstallation because it just caused so many problems with my processor driver which made XP not even want to think about loading.

and Windows Millenium Edition also has Compatibility mode
but Win2k/XP/Server 2003 are all using the WindowsNT 5.x kernel as the base

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LOL, believe me I know. I just spent 2 1/2 weeks going to Student Rooms and Greek houses cleaning there computers so we could unlock there ports. It only took one day of students computers on campus for the msblast virus to eat up 65% of a Gigabit Network. I don't think a single computer i went to has even 1 in ten patches done. And half of them we had to re-install components of Windows after running the RPC patch from MS to block this virus, because the Patch screwed up the computer. I can't even guess how much cost in man power was wasted by tax payer paying all us techs to clean students computer because of this one stupid virus. Got to Love MS.
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