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Subject: VIM and XP

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Name: Lancer Solurus
Date: June 19, 1901 at 16:02:28
Homepage: Digital Brilliance Of Memphis
Subject: VIM and XP

Comment:

This is like the post in April, I just upgraded pretty much my whole system. I was running Win98 on my new system before I installed Windows XP HE. VIM worked on Win98, but once XP was installed, I does not work. My wife's copy also failed as well, she only did the WinXP upgrade only.
I am running an Athlon 1800+, MSI MB, 256 megs, ATI Radeon 8500.
Also, I tested Sticky X2, and it still works fine. I can not even get the VIM settings page to come up now.
Here is the debug info from VC6
00418D01 mov dword ptr [edx],ecx <---
00418D03 mov ecx,dword ptr [eax+4]
00418D06 mov dword ptr [edx+4],ecx
00418D09 mov eax,dword ptr [eax+8]
00418D0C mov dword ptr [edx+8],eax
00418D0F fild dword ptr [ebp-54h]
00418D12 fdiv dword ptr ds:[46E320h]
00418D18 fdiv dword ptr ds:[46E438h]
00418D1E push ecx
00418D1F fstp dword ptr [esp]
00418D22 push 0
00418D24 lea ecx,[ebp-74h]
00418D27 call 0041A640
It said it was an access violation as follows
-->Unhandled exception in vim40j522.scr: 0xC0000005: Access Violation
I hope this helps, it was running great on this system using Win 98.

Response Number 1

Name: Michael Colicos
Date: June 19, 1901 at 17:29:31
Subject: VIM and XP

Reply:

Hi Lancer, do you have full administrative privileges on your XP login? I'm not sure if the home edition handles services differently from the professional version, but the VIM (on NT based OS's) needs to load a driver while running (to do the direct port access thing). Or perhaps another program is preventing the service from loading?

Response Number 2

Name: Lancer Solurus
Date: June 19, 1901 at 22:43:10
Homepage: Digital Brilliance Of Memphis
Subject: VIM and XP

Reply:

Thanks, Win Xp is quite different from Win 98, could you point me where to set this at. I check administration in the help files, but it was pretty much useless at this point (I've had XP for a week). I am the only person who is set up as user on my system. Also, I noticed a vim.sys in the system folder, is that the file you were referring too?
Thanks

Response Number 3

Name: Michael Colicos
Date: June 23, 1901 at 07:33:27
Subject: VIM and XP

Reply:

That is the driver, is it in the ..system32/drivers/ folder? Just want to make sure it's going into the correct directory.

Response Number 4

Name: Lancer Solurus
Date: June 24, 1901 at 17:22:35
Homepage: Digital Brilliance Of Memphis
Subject: VIM and XP

Reply:

Yes, that is exactly where it is. I even deleted the vim.sys file and made it recreate it. It still crashes though. Also, I found the network admin stuff, and it has me as the main admin. It could be an incompatability with the drivers for my video card. I have the latest XP drivers installed. I have not had any problems with DB Modeler rendering in 3D. And I tested all of the DX demos, and everyone of them worked perfectly.
On a side note, does your V5 have technique 0 for the water demo? That one has the background reflected off of the waves. After seeing that, I am going to add water to my program as well.

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         : This is like the post in April, I just upgraded pretty much my whole system. I was running Win98 on my new system before I installed Windows XP HE. VIM worked on Win98, but once XP was installed, I does not work. My wife's copy also failed as well, she only did the WinXP upgrade only. 
: I am running an Athlon 1800+, MSI MB, 256 megs, ATI Radeon 8500.
: Also, I tested Sticky X2, and it still works fine. I can not even get the VIM settings page to come up now.
: Here is the debug info from VC6
: 00418D01   mov         dword ptr [edx],ecx <---
: 00418D03   mov         ecx,dword ptr [eax+4]
: 00418D06   mov         dword ptr [edx+4],ecx
: 00418D09   mov         eax,dword ptr [eax+8]
: 00418D0C   mov         dword ptr [edx+8],eax
: 00418D0F   fild        dword ptr [ebp-54h]
: 00418D12   fdiv        dword ptr ds:[46E320h]
: 00418D18   fdiv        dword ptr ds:[46E438h]
: 00418D1E   push        ecx
: 00418D1F   fstp        dword ptr [esp]
: 00418D22   push        0
: 00418D24   lea         ecx,[ebp-74h]
: 00418D27   call        0041A640
: It said it was an access violation as follows
: -->Unhandled exception in vim40j522.scr: 0xC0000005: Access Violation
: I hope this helps, it was running great on this system using Win 98.

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