Alice and Vista compatibility?

gabe · **Alice and Vista compatibility? -** 02-08-2007, 12:22 PM

I have received a few inquiries about Alice and Windows Vista compatibility. Our campus computer store will not get Vista in until late February/early March, so we will not be able to do any testing ourselves until that point.

If any of you are brave enough to be one of the Vista early adopters and even braver still to be an Alice user

, please let me know your findings. Ideally we would not need to put out a special release for Vista, but if there is significant performance degradation and bugs cropping up, the sooner we can find the problems, the sooner we can get something released.

Note that our bug database is down, so please report either to this thread or to me at alice-admin@cs.cmu.edu.

**Vista Compatability -** 02-08-2007, 09:40 PM

I tried Alice on Vista Beta 2 and did not have much luck. Alice runs but you do not have any objects that show, the visual window is black. Nothing works. A reminder is that this was on Beta 2.Post w/ any questions.

02-12-2007, 10:43 AM

I installed Vista over the weekend and Alice 2.0 runs with no problems.

I installed Windows Vista Business, version 6 (Build 6000) on a Gateway machine with a Pentium D, 3 ghz processor and 2 gig of ram with a gForce 6600 video card. Alice 2.0 runs very smoothly on this 32 bit OS.

However Vista errors when trying to update the sound driver for my machine and as a result I can not confirm that sound works properly with Alice and Vista.

I have not tried to install the Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate or Enterprise versions of Vista.

gabe · 02-12-2007, 10:58 AM

Lance,

Thanks for the test. I hadn't thought about compatibility issues that might differ due to the many flavors of Vista. Argh.

madden · 04:14 PM

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10-14-2007, 03:24 PM

I Installed Alice on vista and it seems to work fine. I noticed a few bugs but I don't know if that is because of windows or Alice. Like I can't seem to "watch" variables when debugging.

10-26-2009, 01:44 AM

I've been having a problem that I'm not sure is due to Vista. I get through the game intro and up to that first point when you have control to move Alice and the game goes back to the main menu. I tried starting over and it did the same thing, so I can't even play the game. Does anyone know what could be causing that?

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gabe Administrator Status: Offline Posts: 461 Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Pittsburgh, PA	Alice and Vista compatibility? - 02-08-2007, 12:22 PM I have received a few inquiries about Alice and Windows Vista compatibility. Our campus computer store will not get Vista in until late February/early March, so we will not be able to do any testing ourselves until that point. If any of you are brave enough to be one of the Vista early adopters and even braver still to be an Alice user , please let me know your findings. Ideally we would not need to put out a special release for Vista, but if there is significant performance degradation and bugs cropping up, the sooner we can find the problems, the sooner we can get something released. Note that our bug database is down, so please report either to this thread or to me at alice-admin@cs.cmu.edu.

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awbgeek10 Guest Status: Posts: n/a	Vista Compatability - 02-08-2007, 09:40 PM I tried Alice on Vista Beta 2 and did not have much luck. Alice runs but you do not have any objects that show, the visual window is black. Nothing works. A reminder is that this was on Beta 2.Post w/ any questions.

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lanceA Guest Status: Posts: n/a	02-12-2007, 10:43 AM I installed Vista over the weekend and Alice 2.0 runs with no problems. I installed Windows Vista Business, version 6 (Build 6000) on a Gateway machine with a Pentium D, 3 ghz processor and 2 gig of ram with a gForce 6600 video card. Alice 2.0 runs very smoothly on this 32 bit OS. However Vista errors when trying to update the sound driver for my machine and as a result I can not confirm that sound works properly with Alice and Vista. I have not tried to install the Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate or Enterprise versions of Vista.

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gabe Administrator Status: Offline Posts: 461 Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Pittsburgh, PA	02-12-2007, 10:58 AM Lance, Thanks for the test. I hadn't thought about compatibility issues that might differ due to the many flavors of Vista. Argh.

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madden Senior Member Status: Offline Posts: 322 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: My own little world 0.0	.... - 02-28-2007, 03:46 PM .... Last edited by madden; 02-28-2007 at 04:14 PM.

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scarlet Guest Status: Posts: n/a	10-14-2007, 03:24 PM I Installed Alice on vista and it seems to work fine. I noticed a few bugs but I don't know if that is because of windows or Alice. Like I can't seem to "watch" variables when debugging.

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Kiriel Guest Status: Posts: n/a	10-26-2009, 01:44 AM I've been having a problem that I'm not sure is due to Vista. I get through the game intro and up to that first point when you have control to move Alice and the game goes back to the main menu. I tried starting over and it did the same thing, so I can't even play the game. Does anyone know what could be causing that?