Vista RC1 and game compatibility

Sorry, I've put this in both the "Games" and "General" boxes, not sure where
it should be for sure:

I installed Vista RC1 on our old computer to try it out and set it up with
two user accounts, both marked as "administrator". My hubby tried to install
one of his games and Vista blocked the driver for it, so I went to the games
site to see if there were any updates and there weren't. Then uninstalled
the game and tried to re-install it using the compatibility "wizard"-- it
gave an error saying that it couldn't access the "autorun.exe" or
"setup.exe". so now I am trying to install the game again, then will try to
play the game using the compatibility thing, as the game says its compatible
with windows 2000/XP only. Game: Rainbow Six, Lockdown-- ubisoft (ubi.com)
Question: Waste of time? Have to wait for a new version or fix from the
game or should the compatibility thing work?

"~working mom~" <workingmom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A53ADAA3-2EA4-482D-B844-050726C23175@microsoft.com...
> Sorry, I've put this in both the "Games" and "General" boxes, not sure
> where
> it should be for sure:
>
> I installed Vista RC1 on our old computer to try it out and set it up with
> two user accounts, both marked as "administrator". My hubby tried to
> install
> one of his games and Vista blocked the driver for it, so I went to the
> games
> site to see if there were any updates and there weren't. Then uninstalled
> the game and tried to re-install it using the compatibility "wizard"-- it
> gave an error saying that it couldn't access the "autorun.exe" or
> "setup.exe". so now I am trying to install the game again, then will try
> to
> play the game using the compatibility thing, as the game says its
> compatible
> with windows 2000/XP only. Game: Rainbow Six, Lockdown-- ubisoft
> (ubi.com)
> Question: Waste of time? Have to wait for a new version or fix from the
> game or should the compatibility thing work?

In this case the copy-protection on the game is what's causing the problem.
It uses something called Star Force, which is what is trying to install the
driver, normal applications don't need to do anything so intrusive and so
most applications don't run into such problems.

You can try and install their Vista driver from:
http://www.star-force.com/protection.phtml?c=83&id=963

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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After doing that and still running it with the compatibility wizard, it looks
like its going to start-- we see the opening window, then we get:
_______________________________________________________
Lockdown.exe has stopped working.

A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close
the program and notify you if a solutin is available.
_______________________________________________


Then when the program is closed we have on our desktop a very large notepad
log:
________________________________________________________
Lockdown caused an Access Violation in module Lockdown.exe at 001b:005678be.
Command Line : "C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\Red Storm Entertainment\Rainbow Six
Lockdown\Lockdown.exe"
Exception handler called in Main Thread.
Error occurred at 10/15/2006 13:07:02.
C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\Red Storm Entertainment\Rainbow Six
Lockdown\Lockdown.exe, run by Mommy.
1 processor(s), type 586.
511 MBytes physical memory.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE: x86
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER: x86 Family 6 Model 10 Stepping 0, AuthenticAMD
PROCESSOR_LEVEL: 6
PROCESSOR_REVISION: 0a00
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS: 1
__________________________________________________

I stopped with the cut and paste there, because it really is quite large.
Hope this is fixable. I even posted on the games community site in the
hopes, but looks like they are all at a loss as well.

Thanks for trying with me though.




"Paul Smith" wrote:

> "~working mom~" <workingmom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A53ADAA3-2EA4-482D-B844-050726C23175@microsoft.com...
> > Sorry, I've put this in both the "Games" and "General" boxes, not sure
> > where
> > it should be for sure:
> >
> > I installed Vista RC1 on our old computer to try it out and set it up with
> > two user accounts, both marked as "administrator". My hubby tried to
> > install
> > one of his games and Vista blocked the driver for it, so I went to the
> > games
> > site to see if there were any updates and there weren't. Then uninstalled
> > the game and tried to re-install it using the compatibility "wizard"-- it
> > gave an error saying that it couldn't access the "autorun.exe" or
> > "setup.exe". so now I am trying to install the game again, then will try
> > to
> > play the game using the compatibility thing, as the game says its
> > compatible
> > with windows 2000/XP only. Game: Rainbow Six, Lockdown-- ubisoft
> > (ubi.com)
> > Question: Waste of time? Have to wait for a new version or fix from the
> > game or should the compatibility thing work?
>
> In this case the copy-protection on the game is what's causing the problem.
> It uses something called Star Force, which is what is trying to install the
> driver, normal applications don't need to do anything so intrusive and so
> most applications don't run into such problems.
>
> You can try and install their Vista driver from:
> http://www.star-force.com/protection.phtml?c=83&id=963
>
> --
> Paul Smith,
> Yeovil, UK.
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
> http://www.windowsresource.net/
>
> *Remove nospam. to reply by e-mail*
>
>

"~working mom~" <workingmom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:E98B7029-0BF2-4F82-AA57-DCD36E5B38F6@microsoft.com...
> After doing that and still running it with the compatibility wizard, it looks
> like its going to start-- we see the opening window, then we get:
> _______________________________________________________
> Lockdown.exe has stopped working.
>
> A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close
> the program and notify you if a solutin is available.
> _______________________________________________
>
>
> Then when the program is closed we have on our desktop a very large notepad
> log:
> ________________________________________________________
> Lockdown caused an Access Violation in module Lockdown.exe at 001b:005678be.
> Command Line : "C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\Red Storm Entertainment\Rainbow Six
> Lockdown\Lockdown.exe"
> Exception handler called in Main Thread.
> Error occurred at 10/15/2006 13:07:02.
> C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\Red Storm Entertainment\Rainbow Six
> Lockdown\Lockdown.exe, run by Mommy.
> 1 processor(s), type 586.
> 511 MBytes physical memory.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE: x86
> PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER: x86 Family 6 Model 10 Stepping 0, AuthenticAMD
> PROCESSOR_LEVEL: 6
> PROCESSOR_REVISION: 0a00
> NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS: 1
> __________________________________________________
>
> I stopped with the cut and paste there, because it really is quite large.
> Hope this is fixable. I even posted on the games community site in the
> hopes, but looks like they are all at a loss as well.
>
> Thanks for trying with me though.
>
>

I suggest you fire off an email to Ubisoft and ask them why
they could not use a more compatible copy restriction technology,
or removed it all together.

Then the game might have worked in Windows Vista.

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///Terje Alexander Barth
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