Undercover- Operation Wintersun

[RetroJay]

Hi. Has anyone played undercover- Operation Wintersun on a machine running (Dare I say it) VISTA.
My brother purchased this game from Amazon as they said it was for all OS including (Dare I say it) VISTA.
I`m sorry but everytime I say VISTA I break out into a rash!
Anyway all other sites I have been to also seem to have got it wrong as it has not been made with V....That OS in mind according to the very short and uninterested E-mail I got from Lighthouse Interactive.
The problem with the game is that there is no video. Sound to the video- Yes. Video- no!
The game itself runs fine and looks to be a good (point and click) adventure. Now I tried it on my XP machine and everything including videos work just fine.
Has anyone else had this video problem on V..V..Vista (If I say it quick I might be ok).
I can only find two patches for this game and they are for the German version.
But I thought that I would let you all know that whatever you hear Undercover- Operation wintersun has NOT been made with Vista (damn!) in mind.
If anyone has managed to get video working on Vis..Vis..Vista then please let me know how. Thanks.

[Ghost]

A friend of mine owns the game (and the V-OS), so I can happily tell you that the german version runs fine on VISTAHHHH (  ) with the first released patch. Before, my friend mentioned several crashes during startup of the game.

Plus, yes, it is a good game. Not downright outstanding, but well made.

[RetroJay]

Thankyou Ghost.
I must be doing something wrong.
I tried one of the two patches I found. One says "Patch without videos" and the other "Patch with video".
So naturally I tried the "patch with video" as this is the problem. I have No video!
I unzip the files to my Documents and run the patch from there. The patch seems to run and in the "Undercover" game directory "Patch 1.1" is present.
But when I play the game I still have no video.
When I look in My Documents there is a folder titled "NOT SET" which has a new "Undercover.EXE" and various other icons for the game.
I even tried moving these to the "Undercover" Game directory and setting the orriginals to ".Bak" files.
But when I try to run the game a message appears saying "WRONG DISK".
Oh Please help me. AAAAAAaaaaaarrrrrrggggghhhhh!

P.S. I didn`t mean to offend anyone that has VISTA (urg!). I Just don`t like it.................Yet!

[Oliwerko]

You are not alone, that is all I can tell you 

[Ghost]

Vista isn't easy to like, but WIntersun grows on you 

[RetroJay]

Well it would appear, after many E-mails to Lighthouse Interactive, that the German version needed the 1.1 patch to work.
However the English version had already been patched to 1.1 prior to it's release.
So....There isn't a patch out for the English version which means that Vista users, such as my brother, will probably have problems.
Although it has already been patched my bro still has no video.
But the actual game seems to run fine. So if you want to know the story then install it onto an XP machine, watch the cut scenes, then play
the game on your Vista machine.

P.S. Strange but after saying that Amazon had this game down as all OS. That field has now been wiped.
Please pay note. If you want to play 'UNDERCOVER- Operation Wintersun' on Vista then move to Germany.
Otherwise play it on XP and enjoy it. . If anyone in England does get videos working then please let me know. Thanks.

[RetroJay]

 :Hey!
I got vids working.
A guy on Anaconda, lighthouse, forum said he got vids working by pressing the 'windows' key as the vids started.
You shouldn't have to do this but there is a compatability issue with vista.
Now at least my brother can see the story!

P.S. Press the 'windows' key twice to get rid of the start program list. You are just left with the start bar then.
However all vids work just fine.

[RickJ]

I must be doing something wrong.

Hehe, Yeah, like using Vista!  Lol 

[RetroJay]

RickJ. Do you hate vista as much as me!
Do you have a brother that, unfortunately, brought a Vista machine and now asks you to sort out every brob he has?
Vista is supposed to be more 'USER FRIENDLY'.
I don't think so!
It is S**T.
I still use the good old XP. But I hear that support for XP is soon to stop.
So whatever way you look at it, one day or another, we will all be using a S**T opperating system. :'(