Playing EU on Windows Vista?

[-ALFI-]

Hello,
I'm new here and not playing EU yet, I need to know if it can work on Windows Vista. The EU website says Vista is not supported yet but I read a review suggesting it should work on Vista using XP compatibility mode. Is anyone else playing EU on a Vista machine?

[Erach]

I've certainly tried it and I didn't have any problems, but the machine wasn't really powerful enough to use it regularly. Others have reported problems though.

Just give it a go and see what happens. If it works, great. If not, MA just won't support you.

Maybe someone else on here is actively using Vista?

Welcome to EU Chronicle btw!

[phunksta]

Thanks to VU9, our laptop became unusable for EU, so we eventually gave up and bought another.
Of course it's damn hard to buy a new machine now that doesn't come with Vista, which has DirectX 10 pre-installed.
MA do not support Windows Vista, which leaves their target installed base now on a very thin segment of Windows XP machines with upgraded graphics cards.

So, I had to go through the process of trying to get EU working on our new Vista laptop.

Upon starting the client loader, it was checking for directX 9.0c, and when it could not find it, it was starting up dxwebsetup.exe to try to install it.

This fails and logs an error into the DXerror.log

The fix is to obtain the DirectX 9.0c redistributable package and install it. Yes - even though you have directX 10.

EU seems to then work ok following this.

[Yanick]

Just in case I do decide to run out and get another pc, thanks for that tip will come in handy.