Illarion on a Vista?

Zenes · Post by **Zenes** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 5:05 am

Is there any way that Illarion will ever work on a Vista? For me personally, that would help enable me to get on and actually play the game more often (I obviously have a Vista). I was just wondering if it was possible...at all...in the next decade or whatever...
I love Illarion! It's just frustrating for me to not be able to play the game I love. That's all. So yeah, I was just wondering.

Grokk · Post by **Grokk** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 5:08 am

It is possible.

Eadgar · Post by **Eadgar** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 5:42 am

Because you are stuck with Vista, you get a hug...

*hug*

RayJ · Post by **RayJ** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 7:39 am

I run Windows Vista Home Premium on my laptop, it works fine, no trouble at all. What I'm wondering about is Windows 7. I have a free upgrade, but I am worried about trying it, for reasons other than just Illarion. Is there any known conflict with Windows 7 ?

Kranek · Post by **Kranek** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 8:26 am

*uses Windows 7*
Windows 7 works excellent!

Vista...update your drivers could work...or better: upgrade to windows 7

Post by **Estralis Seborian** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 10:03 am

As the other posters more or less said, Illarion works perfectly with MS Vista, but not with the default graphic drivers. Microsoft hates the free graphic standard OpenGL and wants to promote its own DirectX, thus they did not implement OpenGL support in Vista by default. And Illarion requires OpenGL.

So, go to the site of the manufacturer of your graphic card and download the latest drivers. This is never a bad idea because usually, with such updated drivers, all other games you have will run better and faster than before.

If you don't know which graphic card you have and who produced it, run the program "dxdiag" (Start->Run, type "dxdiag") and take a look at the tab "Display" or similar.

1d20 · Post by **1d20** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 1:20 pm

Illarion is probably the only game I've ever seen that runs on like, all OS systems.

Llama · Post by **Llama** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 1:29 pm

MoonDust wrote:Illarion is probably the only game I've ever seen that runs on like, all OS systems.

Since java uses its own VM, programs written on java will work across all OS systems which support the Java VM.

pharse · Post by **pharse** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 3:20 pm

all OS systems

= all operating systems systems

Illarion is truly an allrounder. It runs even on those systems which run the actual system

on topic: I could run Illarion on Win XP, Vista and 7.

1d20 · Post by **1d20** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 3:39 pm

I was about to type OSses.

OS systems is less worse ok.

Olaf Tingvatn · Post by **Olaf Tingvatn** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 3:41 pm

i have, luckily, had no problems with illaRION on vista..might be the graphics card...dont know..im more a gamegeek in that way.

Post by **Nitram** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 4:00 pm

Hadrian_Abela wrote:Since java uses its own VM, programs written on java will work across all OS systems which support the Java VM.

Wrong. It means Java comes up with different bugs on each operating system. So you write it for one OS, test it, install the application on the next OS and start fixing the bugs.

Illarion currently supports:
Windows 98 SE
Windows ME
Windows 2000 (SP3, SP4)
Windows XP
Windows 2003
Windows Vista
Windows 2008
Windows 7

Linux since Kernel 2.4 on, requiring GNOME 1.4 at least or KDE 2 at least.

MacOS X support is provided from Mac OS X v10.4 and newer

Furthermore a graphic card and drivers with support for OpenGL 1.1 or better is needed.

Nitram

Zenes · Post by **Zenes** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 11:32 pm

Thank you all SOOO much! I'm going to take your advice and see about OpenGL.

Eadgar · Post by **Eadgar** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 12:47 am

Nitram wrote:
Hadrian_Abela wrote:Since java uses its own VM, programs written on java will work across all OS systems which support the Java VM.
Wrong. It means Java comes up with different bugs on each operating system. So you write it for one OS, test it, install the application on the next OS and start fixing the bugs.

Illarion currently supports:
Windows 98 SE
Windows ME
Windows 2000 (SP3, SP4)
Windows XP
Windows 2003
Windows Vista
Windows 2008
Windows 7

Linux since Kernel 2.4 on, requiring GNOME 1.4 at least or KDE 2 at least.

MacOS X support is provided from Mac OS X v10.4 and newer

Furthermore a graphic card and drivers with support for OpenGL 1.1 or better is needed.

Nitram

I want to boot up Xbuntu and see if I can get Illa working in Xfce.

Zenes · Post by **Zenes** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 5:33 am

Victory is mine!!!

Thanks to all of your help, especially from Estralis Seborian, I have officially played Illarion on my Vista. I'm playing the game I love much more often now. Thank you!

Freedomworker · Post by **Freedomworker** » Sat Sep 04, 2010 6:50 pm

Estralis Seborian wrote:As the other posters more or less said, Illarion works perfectly with MS Vista, but not with the default graphic drivers. Microsoft hates the free graphic standard OpenGL and wants to promote its own DirectX, thus they did not implement OpenGL support in Vista by default. And Illarion requires OpenGL.

So, go to the site of the manufacturer of your graphic card and download the latest drivers. This is never a bad idea because usually, with such updated drivers, all other games you have will run better and faster than before.

If you don't know which graphic card you have and who produced it, run the program "dxdiag" (Start->Run, type "dxdiag") and take a look at the tab "Display" or similar.

I have one computer on XP and another on Vista - I've never been able to use the vista one - now it works. Thank you Estralis - you rock!

Estelwen · Post by **Estelwen** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 4:15 pm

Windows 7 was my idea.

Freedomworker · Post by **Freedomworker** » Sat Sep 11, 2010 2:49 am

lol..

Quinasa · Post by **Quinasa** » Sat Sep 11, 2010 5:57 pm

I've been playing Illa on a Vista laptop for over 6 months with no problems.