Mssrs.,
A word to the wise, don't upgrade to Vista unless you have an extremely compelling reason to do so. In my case, my PC was dying so I had to get new hardware, but, alas, by the time I scraped the necessary funds only Vista machines were available.[:(]
So far I have installed Eckmuhl & Jena on my Vista machine and encountered the following problems:[B)]
"White Map" - While playing an Eckmuhl game every time I move a unit an appreciable distance (E.g., full move on a road) the map "whites" out. The screen is restored if I click anywhere on the map, but it is extremely annoying and appreciably slows my movement of units. Happily this problem has not occurred with the Jena engine.
No replay - In both games if I elect to watch the replay the game crashes. If I skip the replay, the games proceed normally, but this could make things difficult as a battle progresses.
Starting "next battle" in Campaign game - After concluding the 1st battle in an Eck Campaign, I exchanged the cpf files in which my opponent and I made our strategic choices for the next encounter. That routine went fine, but when I reached the point that the next scenario is loaded, after getting the "Campaign message" for my side, the program had an "error reading xxx.scn". [xx(] After several tries, I had to load the file into my old PC so I could get the next battle started. Since it ran fine on the old PC there was obviously nothing wrong with the file itself.
I have notified Rich and I am sure that the folks at HPS will do their best to solve these problems (All of which are solely attributable to Microsoft[:(!]), but in the meantime I would strongly encourage everyone to hold off on migrating to the Vista OS. My next computer will definitely be a Mac!
Regards,
Paco
<i>Maréchal</i> M. Francisco Palomo
<i>Prince d'Essling, Grande Duc d'Abrantes et
Comte de Marseille
Commandant - Division de Cavalerie de la Vieille Garde </i>
