[Buildityrit]

http://www.grimes.demon.co.uk/dotnet/vistaAndDotnet.htm

I found this and am still reading it and trying to make sense of it.

[xtc2d6u8]

Windows Vista comes with .NET 3.0, which is backwards compatible with 2.0 and 1.1 and 1.0.

The NWN error is because the developers didn't follow the Windows Guidelines, apparently.

[QiuCIOdO]

More of a victim of the game developers, who apparently do not follow guidelines.

When you change the fundamental pillars of your operating system, games relying on quirks in the old systems will not work without being fixed.

[Jalieteplalry]

Originally posted by snoopy369
Erm, you mean "games relying on how the old system worked"? Given that a lot of games have trouble with Vista, perhaps it's not all 'odd quirks' Most games don't have issues. There are very specific developer guidelines for Windows and DX, and if you follow those guidelines you are guaranteed future compatibility.

A lot of developers -- game developers in particular -- rely on quirky behaviour to accomplish something out of laziness.

[VIAGRA-VIAGRA]

Originally posted by snoopy369
Or perhaps to accomplish things that can't be accomplished within the approved guidelines? For NWN? I doubt that very much.

Mostly it's just laziness. SMAC had a basic, awful, unsupported check for OSes, for example.

[ProomoSam]

Well, NWN2 has been out for a while now (up to 6 months) and they've said they're not going to be releasing any more patches. I wanted to try the last patch out and see if they've fixed any more bugs and optimized the code any more but I'm not sure I'll get the chance without setting up a dual boot with XP option. Is that even possible with Vista?

[KLIMOV25gyi]

I tried to reinstall but Vista wouldn't even let me do that for some reason. When I get home I'll try to reinstall one last time and if that doesn't work then I'll give up until the expansion pack comes out in a few months.

[TeapseTic]

I'll try that then. Thanks for the tip.