Hi,

Wich OS do you you use for play EAW ?

OFF

What if you use multiple operating systems on different computers?
I fly with 98 and XP. Vista is a waste of time, and Win7 says it will not run my elder development software ( VS6, the same needed to develop EAW ) so I do not upgrade.

EAW 128c looks awsome with my Win98/ATI 8550/AGPpro pluged into my 37" 1080 HDTV. It doesn't even need the glide wrapper. I just need the code to allow card specific fog effects.

It is time you talked the others into using "VS2010 express" and get away from VS6. Development becomes so very much easier.

Hopefully tomorrow I will be getting one of these
http://www.harveynorman.com.au/product/1256967080622/compaq-presario-cq-au-laptop

Yes I know I am a "tight ass" but as I am spending most of my time away from home, maybe it will give me some opportunity to do some work when I am away .... and see how well EAW will be running with Win7.

OK I'm all ears.

how does VS2010 help us over VS6?

To keep it short, here are many helpful features, but the 2 most important ones (for me also) for the code group are:
1) it checks to see if variables have been defined with appropriate scope.
2) it detects misspelt words as you are writing the code.

These are done without even requiring a compilation attempt.
*****FIX YOUR CODE BEFORE YOU EVEN TRY TO RUN IT ****

Just these 2 additions are also very powerful in other areas :
Let us say you have written some code and you decide that a variable name is not quiet what you want it to be ... so you redefine it.
The instant you do that, all the areas in your code where the old variable name was used will become highlighted because the variable with the old name is no longer defined.
All one has to do is step from one highlighted spot to the next correcting the name.

There are so many nice features that make it very hard for a person to create stupid errors into their code, and then have to waste a lot of time hunting them down.

Every time I have to go back to VS6 I cringe.

The latest Radeon drivers (Jan, 2010) work fine for me and my ATI 4850.