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Hi,
I'm one of those people who have shelled out a lot of money on a Core Duo based PC running the 64bit version of MS Vista and spending more time than they should do getting applications that they know and love trying to work. This is not going to be a thread slagging off Vista but one of how to get MediaPortal to work on it.
When you install MediaPortal on x64 Vista all things start to go well after configuration is run. You get the Welcome to MediaPortal wizard and you can set up the application. However, when you have gone through the screens and click "finish", 2 error dialogs come up from the Plugin Manager:
You then get an error dialog "looking for solutions to your problem" and then another dialog comes up telling you that Configuration.exe has stopped working.
From this point on, MediaPortal will always crash. The only way to get it back again is to delete MediaPortal.xml and then you run around the configuration.exe loop again.
Today I stumbled across the solution to the problem. What is happening is that because it's a .Net 2.0 application, Vista is not running it as a 32bit application with WOW64. You need to force the header to say it's a 32bit app. Here's the blog:
http://blog.timcarmichael.com/2007/01/22/forcing-net-apps-to-run-in-vistas-wow64-x86
Hmmm, I've got the .Net SDK on my machine so I copied corflags.exe to my Windows directory and then created the following batch file in the MediaPortal subdirectory:
You need to perform this everytime you install a new SVN.
Have fun!
Andy
I'm one of those people who have shelled out a lot of money on a Core Duo based PC running the 64bit version of MS Vista and spending more time than they should do getting applications that they know and love trying to work. This is not going to be a thread slagging off Vista but one of how to get MediaPortal to work on it.
When you install MediaPortal on x64 Vista all things start to go well after configuration is run. You get the Welcome to MediaPortal wizard and you can set up the application. However, when you have gone through the screens and click "finish", 2 error dialogs come up from the Plugin Manager:
You then get an error dialog "looking for solutions to your problem" and then another dialog comes up telling you that Configuration.exe has stopped working.
From this point on, MediaPortal will always crash. The only way to get it back again is to delete MediaPortal.xml and then you run around the configuration.exe loop again.
Today I stumbled across the solution to the problem. What is happening is that because it's a .Net 2.0 application, Vista is not running it as a 32bit application with WOW64. You need to force the header to say it's a 32bit app. Here's the blog:
http://blog.timcarmichael.com/2007/01/22/forcing-net-apps-to-run-in-vistas-wow64-x86
Hmmm, I've got the .Net SDK on my machine so I copied corflags.exe to my Windows directory and then created the following batch file in the MediaPortal subdirectory:
You need to perform this everytime you install a new SVN.
Have fun!
Andy
