2010-09-13, 09:59 PM
I agree a kit would be nice, however I am unable to assist in the VMWare dept these days...
The VMWare session I once hosted was way too big a file to keep on this domain (a couple gig if I recall) and it is unlicensed, so it will try to phone home after about 30 days of use to register with a valid windows key...something I was never able to do because I didnt know exactly what release was installed (damn microsoft for making 50+ different releases of XP).
IPower also gave me shit about keeping that file on the domain claiming it was not a file I was allowed to keep on their space, they told me remove it or they would shut me down.
VMWare is a decent alternative, but unfortunately does have its own drawbacks.
Dragoon...are you using an onboard graphics chipset or an addon graphics card? If youre using the latter, you can disable it through hardware control and run on the basic VGA drivers which would probably fix your SOM editor bugs while youre simply editing your game...you would have to reactivate your graphics card to test with though...its just a big pain without a dedicated XP box...and even some XP machines dont run SOM perfectly...I know for me i had to disable direct3d everytime i used the editor, then turn it back on everytime i tested it which = tons of wasted time.
The VMWare session I once hosted was way too big a file to keep on this domain (a couple gig if I recall) and it is unlicensed, so it will try to phone home after about 30 days of use to register with a valid windows key...something I was never able to do because I didnt know exactly what release was installed (damn microsoft for making 50+ different releases of XP).
IPower also gave me shit about keeping that file on the domain claiming it was not a file I was allowed to keep on their space, they told me remove it or they would shut me down.
VMWare is a decent alternative, but unfortunately does have its own drawbacks.
Dragoon...are you using an onboard graphics chipset or an addon graphics card? If youre using the latter, you can disable it through hardware control and run on the basic VGA drivers which would probably fix your SOM editor bugs while youre simply editing your game...you would have to reactivate your graphics card to test with though...its just a big pain without a dedicated XP box...and even some XP machines dont run SOM perfectly...I know for me i had to disable direct3d everytime i used the editor, then turn it back on everytime i tested it which = tons of wasted time.
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