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HELP!
I have Vista (death to Microsoft!)
I have latest Java runtimes.
I have turned off the firewall.
I start the darkwind lobby.jar file and get a login screen, it goes through the updating portion (The first tme did quite a bit of downloading)
I login just fine (To my perspective)
I get the splash screen saying client is loading . . . .
. . . . . then nothing, no other screen like when I loaded game in XP, which worked flawlessly first time for me.
What am I doing wrong? I am very unfamiliar with the vista thing, is there some sort of admin privledge I have to set in java or darkwind?
Any help to get me in game is appreciated, I am stumped right now. (and I consider myself computer savvy btw, just not on this abomination of vista, KNEW I should have stuck with XP!!)


Posted Aug 27, 2007, 12:35 am

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I have also downloaded the zipped client and unzipped to its own folder. That is not the issue.


Posted Aug 27, 2007, 12:38 am

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It's very likely some kind of security problem. For some reason, Vista isn't giving you write privileges in the darkwind folder, I think.

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Posted Aug 27, 2007, 12:45 am

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The security on the created C:\Program files\Darkwind\ folder I created then unzipped the files into. Please let others be aware of this potential issue.


Posted Aug 27, 2007, 12:51 am

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Did you get it working?

I had a lot of trouble with anything in /Program Files/ when testing on Vista. It appears that it doesn't let you change access privileges on anything in /Program Files/ - it even pretended it was letting me (and went through the 'updating files properties' animation) but then actually hadn't changed anything.

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Posted Aug 27, 2007, 12:54 am	Last edited Aug 27, 2007, 12:55 am by sam

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It did work, you have to edit the permissions for the (one) user and allow full control, it took it and I am now in


Posted Aug 27, 2007, 12:57 am

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Can you please tell me how to edit the permissions in Vista as you did? I only know how to click administrator under user accounts. thanks


Posted Jan 2, 2008, 5:25 pm