Issues in Windows XP

[Soly]

If you can get your hands around a home or pro OS version, that'd be nice.
I'll see if I can get a copy to see if it works for me.

[Jordon Moss]

Using a CD with SP3 slipstreamed, but a legit key.

 

[Mieu]

SOLY and Admins ... I have my "GOLD PRESSED COPIES" from my old employer of, "XP:MCE and XP:Home/Pro/Enterprise."  I would be more than happy to roll it up into an .ISO for you ... However, as you should know ... I cannot give you the VLK for it.  Sorry.

Also ... XP:MCE is 2 Discs.  1 is the main installer.  2 is the extras.

Edited September 19, 2016 by Mieu
.ISO for Admins only. Sorry ...

[Mieu]

Jordan ... Did you Slipstream that disc yourself by hand or did you use something like nLite to do it?

[Jordon Moss]

By hand, burned to DVD. Done this several years back.

I may have a genuine CD of Home SP2 sitting around somewhere, I may reinstall from that and see what happens. If I can find the bloody thing.

Edited September 19, 2016 by Jordon Moss

[Mieu]

I see your location is from "Nova Scotia" ... are you using any "Language Packs" or "Enhancements" to the OS?  Voice or Tablet recognition?  Also ... Just like Soly said ... are you getting any erroneous messages in the "Event Viewer"? 

[Jordon Moss]

Event Viewer turns up nothing. And I'm using standard US English. No language packs. Nova Scotia is an English speaking province of Canada.

[Mieu]

Hmm ... nothing in the logs huh?

Pretty much at this stage, the only thing I can think of is installing another HDD or making an empty partition or VM-Space ... and trying it all from scratch.

I understand N.S. is an English Province ... however sometimes MS installs extra crap for different countries and locales, for universal compatibility resolutions.  101-Key keyboards (Plus or minus a few keys), additional input devices, etc, etc.

Oh ... are you playing any other games from different countries?  Such as Japanese Games?

Edited September 19, 2016 by Mieu
¥ instead of \

[Jordon Moss]

I am going to do a clean install of XP and see what happens.

[Soly]

Sorry for the trouble.
Please let us know how it goes.

[Jordon Moss]

Reinstalled Windows XP from scratch. Still "No DLL"... doesn't matter where or how I install the game, or how I launch it.
Whatever is going on, it isn't my system. For some reason, PSOBB just isn't loading properly. I can get into the menu, enter my account details... but cannot connect of course.

EDIT: Installed Schthack PSOBB on the system to see what would happen with theirs. Loads fine, DLL loads, everything loads, and can connect fine.

Since I'm guessing the client dll for Ultima is made in Visual Studio 2015, it may be a shot in the dark, but could one of the devs check to see what the "Platform Toolset" is set to in the solution's settings? Might want to make sure it's one of the v###_xp variants.

Edited September 19, 2016 by Jordon Moss

[serverus]

yea the problem is ur win medi center its so buugy on video drivers reinstall ur windows

[Soly]

9 hours ago, Jordon Moss said:

Reinstalled Windows XP from scratch. Still "No DLL"... doesn't matter where or how I install the game, or how I launch it.
Whatever is going on, it isn't my system. For some reason, PSOBB just isn't loading properly. I can get into the menu, enter my account details... but cannot connect of course.

EDIT: Installed Schthack PSOBB on the system to see what would happen with theirs. Loads fine, DLL loads, everything loads, and can connect fine.

Since I'm guessing the client dll for Ultima is made in Visual Studio 2015, it may be a shot in the dark, but could one of the devs check to see what the "Platform Toolset" is set to in the solution's settings? Might want to make sure it's one of the v###_xp variants.

As I have said before, it works fine on my virtual machine and several other people can use it in XP too.
I don't think it's not your system.

To answer your question, I do use Visual Studio 2015, but the toolset used is Visual Studio 2015 - Windows XP (v140_xp)

You said you reinstalled, but did you install media center again?

Edited September 19, 2016 by Soly

[Jordon Moss]

Not media center. Just plain Windows XP Pro with SP3. And to be honest, the system was perfectly fine and stable before.

Still "no dll".

You're not using any intel-specific optimizations / instruction sets, are you? (Such as SSE2) This is running an AMD Athlon XP 1600 CPU.
We need some way to debug this... some kind of way to catch were and why it's failing to load. Event viewer yields nothing.

Edited September 20, 2016 by Jordon Moss

[Soly]

I'm not doing anything special myself.
Doesn't make sense that many people can use it just fine.

Either way, I'll try to put something up and let you know to see if we can find the problem.