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Vista Update
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Vista Update
Posted in 
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Vista Update
Dear OP and FlyOrDie staff, i was just wondering if you

were 

updating to make the game compatible with windows vista. 

By this i mean character map and the download version. I 

made a nick using vista's character map and it wouldn't 

accept the characters and my name shows up as squares. As 

for the 3D Billiards download, i have downloaded this a 

few times but have never been able to get it to work it 

just keeps saying the program has stopped working :(. Any 

word from anyone as to the status of whats happening would 

be great.

Thanks

Scott
"it wouldn't accept the characters and my name shows up as squares"

Excuse me, but if it did not accept, how could it "show up"?

OP
sry op i meant it didnt accept them as to not showing them just they appear as squares is what i meant.
1. I would suggest using characters that your system is capable of displaying.

2. Our PC games do run on vista generally, there are some examples when they do not, though...
Vista is well-known for incompatiblites with many-many applications currently, so I can only suggest to use the web based version, if our games do not work on yours.

Thx,

OP

ive seen this on a lot of nicks where on there info they have there name in characters, but on the game its squares, dunno why wista does that:|

>1. I would suggest using characters that your system is capable of displaying.
 
Op its YOUR system which is incapable of displaying them. Thats why so many people make mistakes because at OUR end its ok.

Probably it is the browsers and java that do not support those characters. Just because you find them in character map does not mean that everything will be able to display them. For example ie7 can display more characters than ff2, as I see.
Not much we can do about it...

Why create (and use) a name that does not appear correctly anyway?
Why use multiple names anyway :s

OP
the name showed correctly it does on my info and it does here in forum but just not while im playing games.
Then it is probably the java plugin that is not copmpatible with those characters, and as I have mentioned we cannot really do much about it.

Do not use such characters if I may suggest. I think there are enough of those that display correctly in any case.

Ot still better: use your one and only original nick.

Thx,

OP
hmm just thought id add this for some reason, how come technical posts dont need to be approved?

Cheers Op for clearing this up just thought id ask as u get

 nowhere if u dont. Think ill stick to normal letters or the 

ones from character map im sure that work.


thanks

scott