M'44 VM's Scenario problems with Vista?

[Volcano Man]

I don't know about all the Scenarios of the _Alt M'44, they seem okay when I run them, it's only when I open a PBEM file.

Thus, this has happened twice to me. One in a big game of M'44 Alt VM, with some other file (I will get the name of this other file...something that adds to your scenario that was left out) and a smaller game I started, was able to play a bit, then the problem started out with that 2nd new game also (go figure).

Hmm, very interesting. Ok, so you can load the scenarios fine, and even "start" the scenario fine in PBEM mode, but at some point in the turn exchanges what you describe happens? XP emulation mode might help, but unless it has to do with that data protection stuff in Vista (what's it called, "DEP"?), which is a major headache and might be something that Rick is referring to, then I don't think it is necessarily a Vista issue.

Strange things can happen like this if one or the other user saves to different .bte files, changes the name, and of course if they try to edit the OOB or .bte file itself -- although I am certainly not accusing anyone of doing that here, I am just saying that the file can get messed up during the process of playing it, especially if there is some tinkering going on (innocent or not), and it usually has nothing to do with the OS type. I have seen something strange happen to a turn where we had to go back and restart from a few turns earlier, but I can't remember what happened to cause the turn to mess up; maybe it was an update to a file or something like that. Have you both tried resuming from a previous turn?