Multidisplays

Maybe Your Vista PC is not enough efficient / powerfull? Or You try too much differet elements (in exepresentationshows) with large screensize in Your show? Try to make video (for example wmv): if that works?


I have Vista Ultimate (64 bit) in ASUS motherboard and graphicgard PC and there is any problems with Platinum 2.4 a and Platinum 3.
If I make too complex exepresentations with full hd -resolution (1920x1080), the presentation may abort in that point, where there is very rapid picturechanges or something like that happenings. Exepresentations with smaller screensize like 1400x... works very well in hole show.

Thanks for your reply. A friend of mine bought a high end Sony Vaio notebook with Vista Ultimate and a 1920×1200 WUXGA screen resolution, graphics with 256 MB dedicated memory. To my point of view this should be enough to import 3 new imagezs in a correctly installed WP 2.40 with a sample sound from the WP 2.40 CD. This resulted repeatedly in a program crash when played on a windowed presentation screen, no images where displayed. At that time I couldn't find a solution for this problem. When scrolling in editing mode, everything seems to work fine. I bought a few days later a HP Vista Premium notebook and installed WP 2.40 a. I've encountered the same problems with this notebook with only a few images and a sound track with demo sound. No video, no dual screen, no text ... the least in fact. This laptop has a NVidia graphic card 8600 with 256 MB dedicated memory. If anyone has a suggestion, please let us know.
Yesterday I have tried to install WP 350 on my new system and this installation won't even startup. Please notice that I use now WP 350 (after many other versions) on a 6 year old Acer notebook with 64 MB memory and Windows XP for fairly simple presentation in school without any problems. Maybe I should install W XP on my new laptop.

All we know is that 2.40a was not tuned for Vista, but generally it works in Vista, as Badman has attested to. However, I recall Christoph Hilger from Stumpfl posted sometime ago that Vista 32-bit worked, but not the 64-bit version.

Try other images or another file format. It could be that the images you tried are 'corrupt' or somehow not agreeable with Wings. Scrolling is not a problem because Wings uses the Display data when scrolling/scrubbing the timeline. If it is having a problem with multiple high res images, try one image alone without sound. If one image works, add progressively until you reach the limits of your system. Then make a mental note of that.

WP3.5 is tuned for Vista, so it is surprising to hear that your install on your new system will not even startup. In the last week, a client has successfully installed WP3.5 into his laptop with Vista and on-board graphics. However, he has 4GB of RAM in his laptop. After some hiccups with Quicktime MOV files, things have been running smoothly after converting the troublesome files to WMV. Point is, WP3.5 runs under Vista.

Only thing that comes to mind where WP3.5 will not start is when the Direct X version is incorrect. It requires Direct X 9c Nov. 2007 version.

Another is when the Enable Codes are wrongly entered (I personally prefer Copy-and-paste from a Notepad file of my licences to ensure accuracy).

Thomas