Bugs and Feature Requests for PlanetsCentral and other VGAP software

[Posting] VGAP4 VCR crash on Win8.1
Thread opener
Posted Sat, 2017-05-27 12:38 GMT

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

[Posting] Re: VGAP4 VCR crash on Win8.1
Thread opener
Posted Sun, 2017-05-28 08:45 GMT

Solved my own problem I was missing this file

MSVBVM50.DLL

Got it from here

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/180071/file-msvbvm50.exe-installs-visual-basic-5.0-run-time-files

Reran the Win7inst.bat which puts it in the right place and VCR.EXE now works

:smile:

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

[Posting] Re: VGAP4 VCR crash on Win8.1
Posted Sun, 2017-05-28 16:56 GMT

Solved my own problem I was missing this file

MSVBVM50.DLL

Lucky you :smile:

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