X-Tension on Vista

[BLiTZWiNG]

Can anyone tell me how to get X-Tension working on Vista?

I just get the message "Error opening video, check your display settings".

Any help would be appreciated.

[Belgarath]

Make sure that you set the program to use compatibility mode (Windows '98 ) and that you have the X-Beyond the Frontier CD in the drive (required to play the game).

I'm playing it on Windows 7, so it should also work in Vista.

[BLiTZWiNG]

Hmm.

I tried XP and 98 compat, the disc hasn't left my drive since last week (though it's the X-Tension/BTF disc, not the origianl BTF disc, which I also have).

Maybe Vista is missing media player or something like that. It's good to know it works in Windows 7 though, maybe there is a reason for me to downgrade to that awful new taskbar after all.

[mrbadger]

Hmm.

I tried XP and 98 compat, the disc hasn't left my drive since last week (though it's the X-Tension/BTF disc, not the origianl BTF disc, which I also have).

Maybe Vista is missing media player or something like that. It's good to know it works in Windows 7 though, maybe there is a reason for me to downgrade to that awful new taskbar after all.

I'm using the windows 7 RC and I've got to say its the first Windows version to impress me since Win95. Everythings faster (15% increase in X3:TC framerate for example), the OS is really stable, and although the taskbar is different, its really nice once you get used to it.

UAC is still awful though, I've disabled it, because I don't need to be treated like a moron while running applications. In my opinion they're just offloading responsibility for the awful security model in Windows to the end user, rather than fixing it. At least it can be disabled, so that's a good thing I guess..

[mike2R]

I just get the message "Error opening video, check your display settings".

Complete shot in the dark (just reminds me of a similar problem I had once): could it be trying to play an intro movie that it can't handle? (obsolete version of a format or something)

If so, can you find the into movie in the game directory? If so try renaming it - when I had problems with an intro movie crashing a game, renaming it so it couldn't find it caused it to just skip the intro and go straight on to the game.

[Tonedude]

Can anyone tell me how to get X-Tension working on Vista?

I just get the message "Error opening video, check your display settings".

Any help would be appreciated.

I get the exact same error. The funny thing is X-BTF works briliantly but X-tension doesn't work at all.

I'm using Vista 32 as well, and I'm pretty sure I've tried everything to get it working with no success, including changing the compatibility modes.

It just doesn't work in Vista 32 bit!

Tony.

[Belgarath]

When I was playing XT on Vista, It worked with no problem. It may be that I had installed the Vista Codec Pack and that makes a difference. You could set a new restore point and try installing the codecs to see if that fixes the problem. The reason I say to create a restore point is if it doesn't work, you can restore back to the point before you installed.

http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/A ... 55586.html

[BLiTZWiNG]

Thanks for the tips, unfortunately still no go. I installed the codecs and I even renamed the movie files, then the whole movie folder, but still the same error.

[SS_T]

I tried several times to get it working on vista 64 with all sorts of codecs and compatibilities and never got it too work

[BLiTZWiNG]

YAY!

Thankyou for the new patch Egosoft, I can now run X-Tension on Wndows 7

(Yes, I've upgraded since I made this post).

[esd]

I'm glad it's working, but this thread is positively ancient!

Going south!