2010-03-08, 11:15 PM
^Todd and I discussed this... I think we agreed everyone should be using VMs (virtual machines) ...in the case of XP I did have to toggle DX off the first time, but at some point not long after I'd turned it back on and Som still worked fine, and still does to this day, and the game mode is hardware accelerated.
In the case of Vista you really want a VM setup at this point (I'm not sure if I will look into fixing it otherwise or not anytime soon) ...in the case of 7 I believe it comes with an XP VM builtin (hardware accelerated or not I dunno... if not Som should not have probs) ...I do not know if you need a better than Home Professional version of 7 to benefit from that.
PS: 7 = Microsoft Windows 7. I think everyone will assist you in setting up a VM if that's what you want to do. It really should probably be a #1 mission for som.com to help people with VMs and make standard VM downloads with all the goodies builtin available.
In the case of Vista you really want a VM setup at this point (I'm not sure if I will look into fixing it otherwise or not anytime soon) ...in the case of 7 I believe it comes with an XP VM builtin (hardware accelerated or not I dunno... if not Som should not have probs) ...I do not know if you need a better than Home Professional version of 7 to benefit from that.
PS: 7 = Microsoft Windows 7. I think everyone will assist you in setting up a VM if that's what you want to do. It really should probably be a #1 mission for som.com to help people with VMs and make standard VM downloads with all the goodies builtin available.