CS and Vista Beware!

[Pip Roberts]

Thanks for replying HvF. Direct X 9 definitely corrupted my East Front 1.03 which also had PB#1 and Fall of the Reich installed. Microsoft published a message stating that Direct X 9 could corrupt Campaign Series programmes and published a patch for repairing the damage. It was too scary for me to use so I chose to run all my CS games on a W98 partition and the 1.05 Gig Montecristo Game "Mockba to Berlin" which uses DirectX on my XP partition.
What do you mean by extractable drawers? Sounds interesting.

The principle I stated at the start still stands. As there are limits to reachback and installing older games onto Vista will expose them to potentially dangerous new drivers I prefer my safe and simple approach.

Because the CS series is so important to me (and some other stuff too)
I back up everything onto a separate Hard Drive. I have had the experience of partitioning a disc and backing up the C drive onto the D partition and thinking it was safe. Corruption of the C drive leapt over the partition and crrupted the D drive too hence my extra drive for backups.

I would welcome any other comments on this potentially important subject as Vista takes over and expands in the future