Windows 7 and SB

[Rabbit]

I upgraded my system to Windows 7 and noted a couple of oddities I thought might be worth mentioning:

Installing SB into its typical “C:\Program Files\” path caused a number of errors; whereas the installation worked much better if you used some other path (e.g., create a new directory at the root level). Errors messages included: "String ISDX_ERRR_INTERNAL was not found in string table" and "ISDX_ERR_INTERNAL".

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The installation often complained about installing DirectX. In a couple of the titles, such as Red Victory, the installation finished with the following error message “"Unable to install DirectX" even when installing to a path other than the typical “C:\Program Files\” path. This seemed to be a benign error, since the installation would complete and the game didn’t seem to suffer any effects as a results.

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When clicking on various hexes with the “Visible Hexes” display option enabled, occasionally the window would “white out” except for a couple of hexes. This usually would remedy itself if you clicked in the same hex again. I hadn’t seen this behavior with XP, it only just started happening immediately after I installed Windows 7.

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