windows vista and ttd

[Viztruck]

hello,

I just want to start out by saying i dont know much about computers. I looked for a way to solve it threw the fourms but i could not do it. Its not because of a lack of information it is because of my lack of computer skill. I dont understand the how. If someone could help me threw the process i would greatly appreciate it. I want to run ttd with vista. Please remember that I have a lack of computer skill, and a step by step detailed prosess would be appreciated. I have the ttd disk as well. I cant even get that to install. Thank you

[DaleStan]

You said that you searched and you found information. Therefore:

What information/instructions did you find? What steps did you perform? What were the results? How did those differ from the expected results?

[Viztruck]

Thanks for the reply. I went to the ttd patch site and downloaded the one for windows, save it to a folder extracted it and the opened the file. this is what appeared in a small black box

ttdpatch v2.0 rev1 (windows)starting
ttdloadw.ovl not found, looking for original file
gamegfx.exe: no such file or directory
could not find gamegfx.exe
press any key to abort

thanks

[DaleStan]

You need to extract TTDPatch into the folder where you have installed TTD.

Also, I think you may need 2.5 beta 9 for Vista support, but you'll get the message "Starting TTDLOADW.OVL" if it's properly installed, regardless.

[Lakie]

Also note that you will need to set the compatibility option in ttdpatchw.exe properties to Windows XP (SP2/3) to prevent Vista killing TTDPatch, when it loses focus.

~ Lakie