How to put MTM2 on Vista

JerOutlaw · Post by **JerOutlaw** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 2:49 pm

http://mtm2draggers.net/viewtopic.php?t=3006
just a tutorial I made and figured that you guys would be interested

Disposable · Post by **Disposable** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 12:29 am

Didn't work on my system (Vista Premium), had to use Windows 98/ME compatability mode to get it to work!

JerOutlaw · Post by **JerOutlaw** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:59 am

hmmm that is weird, i have vista premium too. oh well happy i could half ass help you lol

Post by **Phineus** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 7:00 am

Thanks guys for the info. Always appreciated ;-)

Kmaster · Post by **Kmaster** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 9:06 am

guys, i have windows vista home, yeah i had to set compatibility to XP SP2 to install it, but that's not the problem...

that is the problem

the background is overlapping t objects i can only see the objects correctly if i'm really closer to em... i dunno why this happen... maybe is a problem of my video card (Intel 82945G Chipset), i dunno, but is kinda weird.. it used to work fine on XP (on my old computer)

any help?
thanks.

Fila · Post by **Fila** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 10:43 am

Video driver problem.

Try finding either newer drivers or older drivers. I had this problem too with my 8800 when i migrated to Vista. The first few drivers had this problem and also caused, in my case, driver errors which translated into the game not working in hardware mode (sometimes).

Either try older drivers or newer ones, even if they are beta drivers. For example my current drivers are beta drivers that i have found to work without a problem in most of the games so i just sticked with those.

Kmaster · Post by **Kmaster** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 4:36 pm

yeah... the drivers are outdated..(v7.14.10.1332) i'll try v15.8 2/21/2008 thanks fila, i hope this work...

edit: i mean v7.14.10.1332 to v7.14.10.1437 the driver revision is the PV 15.8

Slayer · Post by **Slayer** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 8:30 am

yeah I had a version of nVIdia drivers that did that once. One of the reasons I have never upgraded since, mine work fine now, never touching them again lol

Kmaster · Post by **Kmaster** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 10:36 am

hm... nope. nothing happened. man, this sucks... :/ besides, my screen is 1440x900, graphics looks really bad in 640x480

Fila · Post by **Fila** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 12:41 pm

You can always play in software mode

Slayer · Post by **Slayer** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 12:43 pm

well your using intel graphics, basically the lowest POS possible. I can lend you an old ATI ISA card with 2 megs of VRAM, it would be mroe powerful than that intel crap u got now

Kmaster · Post by **Kmaster** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 12:54 pm

2 megs lol, my older one, trident blade 8megs was better than this one lol

Fila · Post by **Fila** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 4:28 pm

kmaster, i might have new info on your video problem.

Search if your drivers have any sort of "driver properties" that let's you configure the overall video card qualities (for example anti-aliasing). I have did some testing and it seems that this error appears when the video card is forced to use anti-aliasing. It is either the anti-aliasing or the "anti-aliasing transparency".

I have selected both this options on off and i do not have the problem anymore. When they are turned on the problem appears.

Kmaster · Post by **Kmaster** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 6:05 pm

ok fila, i'll take a look

Kmaster · Post by **Kmaster** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 6:29 pm

Anisotropic Filtering = off

[uhoh]

Fila · Post by **Fila** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:49 pm

Anisotropic filtering is something different.

You need antialiasing.

Kmaster · Post by **Kmaster** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 11:16 am

i can't find it... [uhoh]

weirdalfan27 · Post by **weirdalfan27** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 12:11 pm

When I try to copy a pod file to the MTM2 folder in Vista, it says

"An unexpected error is preventing the operation. Make a note of this error code, which might be useful if you get additional help to resolve this problem.

Error 0x80004005: Unspecified Error"

How can I fix this?

Kmaster · Post by **Kmaster** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 12:27 pm

http://www.removevista.com/

ShadowPrincess · Post by **ShadowPrincess** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 5:09 am

Firstly, thank you JerOutlaw, I found the draggers link fantastic, your instructions worked like a charm.

Always a work around somewhere weirdalfan27. I had to set up someones new computer which had vista installed, and did also get this error, how I got around it was;

I downloaded the pod zip I wanted to the desktop,
unzipped the pod to the desktop,
then opened the mtm folder and dragged and dropped the pod in there, of course vista as usual needed permission to do this, so make sure you are logged in as administrator, i gave permission and it moved.

In my case it would not however allow the direct download or the extraction of the zip direct to the mtm folder.

Vista has been a real nuisance at times and I always seem to be using work arounds to something I feel should be simple.