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Hi, I am a returning player trying to get Planets4 running on my win8.1 system. I have followed all the instructions from the wiki here: http://planets4.hood-net.org/wiki/index.php/OS and have planets4 running fine but whenever I try to run VCR.exe to view a battle this error appears in a pop up:

"Run-time error 282

No foreign application responded to a DDE initiate"

Click OK on the error box and both VCR/Planets close down.

This is different to the error mentioned on the wikki page. I have tried both the directX and win32.dll versions of VCR. Both give this error. The versions I have of VCR are dated 2002-02, are there any later versions out there that I am missing?

Any help appreciated. DrAstroman