Monday, November 12, 2007

Windows Vista Compatibility

Ever since the Windows Vista release, I've gotten a lot of questions about using HeroStats with Vista. I haven't upgraded any of my own computers to Windows Vista, mainly because of hardware driver issues and because I really have no need for any of the new features - XP works fine for what I need. So my ability to develop for Vista is limited.

Some other folks in the community do use Vista, and they've provided some tips which can be found in our Known Issues. There are two main tips: run HeroStats in Windows XP compatibility mode, and use .NET Framework 2.0. Both of these things are effectively allowing you to run HeroStats on Vista as if it was running on XP.