Does Vista have issue with Maps?

[oksnoop2]

I made this map
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3043V17E
But my friend who is a vista user has problems opening this map and other maps I and my other friend make. Any thoughts, comments, or suggestions?

[Argh]

Did you pack it as a solid archive? That will cause problems.

Also, try packing it as zip, not 7zip, and see if your friend still has the same problems.

[SanadaUjiosan]

Usually when our friend has this problem, I end up zipping the .sdd into a .rar and then file transfer it to him. It's worked in the past, but as oksnoop said, this last map just wouldn't work at all.

I looked at his infolog, and it said it was having trouble loading the paths. So in a blindly desperate last ditch effort, I sent him the zipped path files my computer made for the map. The infolog stopped referring to those files, but it didn't work anyways. He didn't send me that last infolog, we just picked a working map and played.

What is a solid archive? Is that different from the sort of "out-of-the-box" default for 7zip?

[zwzsg]

Solid is the default 'out-of-the-box' setting in 7zip.

Solid archive used to not even be loaded by Spring. Now, Spring load them, but it still cause lots of issues, so best is to disable solid.

Just look at the GUI of 7zip, and untick "solid archive".

[Forboding Angel]

It's a dropdown now, not a checkbox, and it defaults to 2mb. Just set it to "Non-Solid".

[oksnoop2]

I just tried your suggestion. He said it did not work. Here is the infolog:

LogOutput initialized.
Spring 0.81.1.3 (0.81.1.3-0-g725801c{@}-cmake-mingw32)
Build date/time: Jan 31 2010 17:44:33
Available log subsystems: mapinfo, CollisionVolume, unit, VFS-detail, VFS, ArchiveScanner, Sound
Enabled log subsystems: Sound
Enable or disable log subsystems using the LogSubsystems configuration key
or the SPRING_LOG_SUBSYSTEMS environment variable (both comma separated).
using configuration source "C:\Users\Vincent\AppData\Local\springsettings.cfg"
[CMyMath::Init] CPU SSE mask: 126, flags:
SSE 1.0: 1, SSE 2.0: 1
SSE 3.0: 1, SSSE 3.0: 1
SSE 4.1: 1, SSE 4.2: 0
SSE 4.0A: 0, SSE 5.0A: 0
using streflop SSE FP-math mode, CPU supports SSE instructions
OS: Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition, 64-bit Service Pack 1 (build 6001)
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz; 4093MB RAM, 8409MB pagefile
OS: emulated 32bit mode
Using read-only data directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\Spring\
Using read-write data directory: C:\Users\Vincent\Documents\My Games\Spring\
Using read-only data directory: C:\Users\Vincent\Documents\Spring\
Using read-only data directory: C:\ProgramData\Spring\
Scanning: C:\Users\Vincent\Documents\My Games\Spring\maps
Scanning: C:\Users\Vincent\Documents\My Games\Spring\mods
Scanning: C:\Program Files (x86)\Spring\maps
Scanning: C:\Program Files (x86)\Spring\base
Scanning: C:\Program Files (x86)\Spring\mods
Video mode set to 1024 x 768 / 32 bit
[ 0] SDL: 1.2.10
[ 0] GL: 3.0.0
[ 0] GL: NVIDIA Corporation
[ 0] GL: GeForce 9800 GT/PCI/SSE2
[ 0] GLEW: 1.4.0
[ 0] Joysticks found: 0
[ 0] Joystick 0 not found
[ 0] Loading startscript from: C:\Users\Vincent\Documents\My Games\Spring\\script.txt
[ 0] Connecting to local server
[ 0] Starting GameServer: 7 ms
[ 0] Starting demo recording
[ 0] Using map Hills'N'Ditches.smf
[ 0] Recording demo demos/20100219_153738_Hills'N'Ditches_0.81.1.sdf
[ 0] Using script Commanders
[ 0] Using mod Balanced Annihilation V7.04
[ 0] Sound: OpenAL info:
[ 0] Sound: Vendor: Creative Labs Inc.
[ 0] Sound: Version: 1.1
[ 0] Sound: Renderer: Software
[ 0] Sound: AL Extensions: EAX EAX2.0 EAX3.0 EAX4.0 EAX5.0 EAX3.0EMULATED EAX4.0EMULATED AL_EXT_OFFSET AL_EXT_LINEAR_DISTANCE AL_EXT_EXPONENT_DISTANCE
[ 0] Sound: ALC Extensions: ALC_ENUMERATE_ALL_EXT ALC_ENUMERATION_EXT ALC_EXT_CAPTURE ALC_EXT_EFX
[ 0] Sound: Device: Generic Software
[ 0] Sound: Available Devices:
[ 0] Sound: Generic Software
[ 0] Using mod archive BA704.sd7
[ 0] Loading client data: 101 ms
[ 0] User number 0 (team 1, allyteam 0)
[ 0] Loading console: 1 ms
[ 0] Sound: parsed 4 sounds from gamedata/sounds.lua
[ 0] Loading sounds: 0 ms
[ 0] Camera and mouse: 129 ms
[ 0] Parsing unit icons
[ 0] Parsing definitions
[ 0] Loading all definitions: 0.384000
[ 0] Loading defs: 419 ms
[ 0] You are missing the "ARB_shadow_ambient" extension (this will probably make shadows darker than they should be)
[ 0] Loading map informations
[ 0] Loading map
[ 0] Loading Map
[ 0] Loading .smt tile-file "maps/Hills'N'Ditches.smt"
[ 0] Loading 110193 tiles from file 1/1
[ 0] Reading tiles
[ 0] Reading tile map
[ 0] generating MipMaps: 51 ms

[Beherith]

Im super unsure about allowing single quotes in a map name...

[oksnoop2]

Well the map runs for the 4 other people who got it. And he's had similar problems in the past with maps I've made. that don't have single quotes in the title.