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Malak Darkhunter · September 13, 2011, 20:16

I have windows Vista, trying the newest Nightly build for Angband, I like playing in full Ascii, however with the no graphics options checked I have no walls, anybody know for a fix for this?

EpicMan · September 13, 2011, 21:57

There's a thread about this: http://angband.oook.cz/forum/showthread.php?t=4733. It's caused by a difference in how Windows Vista/7 (and probably Server 2008) display the higher ASCII codes.

Malak Darkhunter · September 13, 2011, 22:42

I can't get into the font files, I get an error message. I hate Vista, I do remember a vista font fix somewhere though.

Malak Darkhunter · September 13, 2011, 22:59

I think I will just use the graphics for now, it works reasonably until i get a chance to ditch this vista laptop and pick up windows 7, or maybe reformatt it for windows xp.

Magnate · September 14, 2011, 10:11

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Originally Posted by Malak Darkhunter

I think I will just use the graphics for now, it works reasonably until i get a chance to ditch this vista laptop and pick up windows 7, or maybe reformatt it for windows xp.

I highly recommend the latter. My wife's laptop is reasonably new and still Win 7 is dog slow. In fact I've never yet seen Win7 run fast on any machine.

Timo Pietilä · September 14, 2011, 11:40

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Originally Posted by Magnate

I highly recommend the latter. My wife's laptop is reasonably new and still Win 7 is dog slow. In fact I've never yet seen Win7 run fast on any machine.

I have. Faster than XP. Win7 requires memory. If you have enough memory in the machine and multi-core processor Win7 can be quite a bit faster than XP. I recommend 64bit Win7 for new computers.

Magnate · September 14, 2011, 11:46

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Originally Posted by Timo Pietilä

I have. Faster than XP. Win7 requires memory. If you have enough memory in the machine and multi-core processor Win7 can be quite a bit faster than XP. I recommend 64bit Win7 for new computers.

Interesting. I presume it needs more than 2GB then?

I had forgotten the multi-core thing (most of my machines are still using single-core CPUs). I expect you're right that Win7 makes much better use of multiple cores.

Malak Darkhunter · September 14, 2011, 12:31

You can throw 8GB of memory at windows 7, you can have double the memory that you used to have with xp, vista. But you kind of need it because it takes a lot more memory just for the win 7 platform just to run.

Malak Darkhunter · September 14, 2011, 13:12

Amazingly the fix that seany c suggested worked here as well. All I had to do was rename the pref-font-win folder to font-winx to disable it and it worked perfectly, now I got walls.

Seany C · September 14, 2011, 14:06

If I'm not careful, I may get a (throroughly undeserved) reputation as a technosavant....

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Malak Darkhunter Knight Join Date: May 2007 Location: US Age: 46 Posts: 730	Latest Angband Nighty build I have windows Vista, trying the newest Nightly build for Angband, I like playing in full Ascii, however with the no graphics options checked I have no walls, anybody know for a fix for this?

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September 13, 2011, 21:57	#2
EpicMan Swordsman Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Dallas, Texas, USA Posts: 455	There's a thread about this: http://angband.oook.cz/forum/showthread.php?t=4733. It's caused by a difference in how Windows Vista/7 (and probably Server 2008) display the higher ASCII codes.

September 13, 2011, 22:42	#3
Malak Darkhunter Knight Join Date: May 2007 Location: US Age: 46 Posts: 730	I can't get into the font files, I get an error message. I hate Vista, I do remember a vista font fix somewhere though.

September 13, 2011, 22:59	#4
Malak Darkhunter Knight Join Date: May 2007 Location: US Age: 46 Posts: 730	I think I will just use the graphics for now, it works reasonably until i get a chance to ditch this vista laptop and pick up windows 7, or maybe reformatt it for windows xp.

September 14, 2011, 12:31	#8
Malak Darkhunter Knight Join Date: May 2007 Location: US Age: 46 Posts: 730	You can throw 8GB of memory at windows 7, you can have double the memory that you used to have with xp, vista. But you kind of need it because it takes a lot more memory just for the win 7 platform just to run.

September 14, 2011, 13:12	#9
Malak Darkhunter Knight Join Date: May 2007 Location: US Age: 46 Posts: 730	Amazingly the fix that seany c suggested worked here as well. All I had to do was rename the pref-font-win folder to font-winx to disable it and it worked perfectly, now I got walls.

September 14, 2011, 14:06	#10
Seany C Swordsman Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Deepest, darkest Yorkshire... Posts: 283 Donated: $20	If I'm not careful, I may get a (throroughly undeserved) reputation as a technosavant....

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