DSapseid Posted June 13, 2008 Posted June 13, 2008 Has anyone got FMS working on Vista?? I just installed it on a laptop for a member of staff and it errors everytime i try and lauch the software. Our lea sims support ignore any request for a vista machine as they dont support it!
amcevoy Posted June 20, 2008 Posted June 20, 2008 Yeah we have. I can;t remember how. What error message are you getting? I think we copied over some DLL's from an XP machine.
DSapseid Posted June 20, 2008 Author Posted June 20, 2008 In the end i found the right kb article on capitas website and i had to create the bde databse manualyl for it and tell it to create it in a different folder as vista doesnt let you create files in the root of the c drive apparantly.
matt40k Posted June 23, 2008 Posted June 23, 2008 Which wouldn't happen if you move over to MS SQL 2005
Kitkatninja Posted June 23, 2008 Posted June 23, 2008 Which wouldn't happen if you move over to MS SQL 2005 We've moved to MS SQL 2k5 and we have to do the above patch. -Ken
SpuffMonkey Posted June 23, 2008 Posted June 23, 2008 We've had a real run around setting up FMS on a new PC - I couldn't believe that you still need to install BDE even after the move to SQL - typical &%&%&% SIMS 1
matt40k Posted June 23, 2008 Posted June 23, 2008 I suppose this is because you still have access to the old version, which to use the log fix to make it so you are unable to write to it, the red background. You should be able to get away with skipping this... on paper away
Sylv3r Posted June 23, 2008 Posted June 23, 2008 We've had a real run around setting up FMS on a new PC - I couldn't believe that you still need to install BDE even after the move to SQL - typical &%&%&% SIMS We don't have to install BDE here on new FMS installations since we moved to SQL.
SpuffMonkey Posted June 24, 2008 Posted June 24, 2008 We don't have to install BDE here on new FMS installations since we moved to SQL. Have you got an idiot install guide you could let me see - as this "advice" came straight from the Capita support desk, when we were failing to get a new install working. Cheers
Oops_my_bad Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 I second that guys - how can we install FMS without the BDE stuff? Trying to install FMS onto a Vista machine (contrary to capita's recommendation that the user must have local admin for it to run) however getting the error when loading any of the focus screens. We have narrowed it down to FMS trying to delete and recreate the C:\pdoxusrs.net file however the Vista OS prevents ANYTHING in the root of C:\ being deleted UNLESS you have local admin/power users. Not even having full control of all files on C:\ as a normal user will allow you to delete files (a security improvement over XP). So in essence, we need to do an FMS installation without the BDE crap installing. Seeing as though everyone is using SQL now we shouldnt even need the BDE crap!
Oops_my_bad Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 Never mind just found it - KB72329 for people who dont want to give users any sort of admin rights just to run FMS! 1
Gatt Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 Also, for FMS to run on Vista - you need the FMSVistaFix001.zip file 1
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