Windows Vista

wopatoolie · Post by **wopatoolie** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 10:34 am

First, is Spartan (purchased 3 yrs ago) compatible with Windows Vista? Second, when I do install it then go to play it, a small window pops up saying 'This application has failed to start because D3DRM.DLL was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.' But when I try to re-install it's the same thing....? I did install and play this same game on an older pc with XP so it does work; when I did it seems I had to disable something but I don't remember what. I'd shore like to play this game again, it's been a long time. Thanks

coldknight · Post by **coldknight** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 11:16 am

I think it has to deal with the direct x, but idk
you may have to install direct x 9 for it to work.
Hope it helps

~coldknight

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 2:42 pm

There is a patch available for this on our website. It is because Vista does not include dx9 and prevents you from installing it. Good old Microsoft

http://slitherine.com/spartan/downloads.htm#Vista

wopatoolie · Post by **wopatoolie** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 8:38 pm

iainmcneil wrote:There is a patch available for this on our website. It is because Vista does not include dx9 and prevents you from installing it. Good old Microsoft

http://slitherine.com/spartan/downloads.htm#Vista

Thanks guys, that worked perfectly, now it's up and running again after over 2 yrs of collecting dust Incidently it worked from the game folder in my OS. For your future reference, I'm running Vista with an ATI Radeon Xpress 1100 graphics driver and this patch is all I needed to get it running again, in case anyone else has the same OS software and has this same problem. Take care and thanks again, awesome game