Getting OpenBOR to work on Windows

[joec3109]

Hello everyone,

I've been attempting to get OpenBOR to work for me on Windows several times now, with no luck. I've got basic questions concerning how to get it to work. I downloaded the newest release of the engine from here, and I put a pak in the Pak folder (in this case, A Tale of Vengeance). I run OpenBOR.exe, and all that happens is it freezes at the OpenBOR opening screen. I've tried a previous version of OpenBOR (I believe 1933 or something like that), and when I did, A Tale of Vengeance worked.

However, once it did, I attempted to scale up the video size, and it crashed. It appears to be loading at the 320x240 resolution, which is understandable, but I'm not sure why I cannot scale up without causing it to crash.

If anyone has any input that could help steer me in the right direction with either problem, I would greatly appreciate it. OpenBOR is an awesome platform and I look forward to doing more with it.

Thanks

 

[Plombo]

A Tale of Vengeance is probably incompatible with the latest builds of OpenBOR.  I don't know why that is without trying it myself, and it might or might not be fixable in the engine depending on whether a fix would break compatibility with newer mods.  We try to keep backwards compatibility, but sometimes it breaks and we don't find out until it's too late.

Build 1933 would be from sometime in 2008 or 2009, before I even became a developer.  I'm sure that your problem with scaling is a bug in that version that has long since been fixed.

So if you want to play AToV, the best solution for the time being is probably just to search for an older but less ancient build.  Sorry.

 

[joec3109]

That helps, thanks man. If it's a version issue, I should be able to find older ones.