Right, I've just bought a licence and am trying to unlock on vista32. I have re-installed lfs, no joy. Deleted that install and tried unlocking an earlier version 0.5Q, still no joy. Can someone please help me as I am rapidly losing patience with this.

A quick search for 'Vista' on the forum produced the following likely threads. Give them a read - I bet the issue has already been found and solved. I can't help more than that as I've not bothered with Vista yet...

http://www.lfsforum.net/showth ... 12880&highlight=Vista
http://www.lfsforum.net/showth ... 12270&highlight=Vista
http://www.lfsforum.net/showth ... t=552&highlight=Vista
http://www.lfsforum.net/showth ... =9031&highlight=Vista
http://www.lfsforum.net/showth ... t=299&highlight=Vista

are you downloading the right patch ???from the right mirror !!what is it doing which results in not unlocking it???

Hiya..

Scawen, LFS's developer, is working to keep on top of the changes that are being continually made to Vista (see the threads in this subforum), but because of the current stage of development for Vista, the goalposts do - and can be expected to continue to for a while - keep moving.

You shouldn't be using Vista as your primary operating system. It's simply not ready to be used in that way. There are lots of changes being made, and as you must know, there are a great many bugs in its current incarnation. Microsoft themselves are quite adamant that you shouldn't yet depend on Vista as your primary OS.

For now, I personally very strongly recommend that you unlock LFS in your Windows XP (or 2000, 98 etc) installation and play it while booted up there.

[edit] I must learn to type faster!

All it says is 'unlocking error'

Quote from Blaeza :

All it says is 'unlocking error'

In that case, the answer is definitely in at least one of the many links to relevent threads, posted above

So, what you are saying is, my partner has to change her operating system back to xp as it will not work on vista full stop? I'm not deliberately getting assy, but I have been looking forward to flying along in my 720bhp f1 for ages......

It will work, but it doesn't work.

Vista is not final yet and thus not officially supported.

Vain

Umm.. no.. I'm saying.. read the above threads, find where other people have had the same problem as you, and solved it, and do as they did.

I'd tell you myself, how to do it, but I haven't installed Vista and don't have a clue. But we've given you a bunch of places to get the information you're looking for, bearing in mind that Vista isn't yet released, isn't stable, and can't actually be guaranteed to work with LFS yet. It's just not reasonable to demand that.

aaarrrrrggggggghhhhh!!!!!!!

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=9869

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FIX : Unlocking LFS now works on Windows Vista
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Download Test Patch U20!

Quote from 11SuLLy11 :

are you downloading the right patch ???from the right mirror !!what is it doing which results in not unlocking it???

Classic

Vista is a beta release so you have to expect these sorts of things to happen. Because Vista is likely to be buggy you should at least have a backup OS in case Vista goes wrong, or even use Vista as a secondary OS.

I know that doesn't help your situation but it'll help in future.

To answer your question - yes, you will have to go back to XP unless you want to wait for Scawen to release a patch that is fully compatible with Vista.

EDIT: I guess I was slow.

Quote from Blaeza :

aaarrrrrggggggghhhhh!!!!!!!

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First you expect LFS to run flawlessly on a beta OS, then you get loads of answers that you don't bother to read, disregard that LFS is actually already working on Vista 32bit edition with the latest test patch, only to finally explode in this fit of rage?

Yeah, seriously, you took your life into your own hands installing a pre-release operating system. It's not LFS's fault that it doesn't work (although apparently it now does with U20, as previously stated by _--NZ--_[HUN])

EDIT: Beat me to it, AndroidXP.

wait a sec peeps...........

He's gonna unlock LFS, and immediately beat all our WRs.. I can just see it! Sod's law!

I am OFFICIALLY THE MOST BRAINDEAD PERSON ON EARTH (APART FROM tONY bLAIR) AND HAVE NW FIXED IT. All together now 'DUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'

So, you downloaded the patches but forgot to actually extract them?
You typed in the wrong password all the time?
You didn't actually install LFS but tried to unlock Minesweeper?

hehe!

Welcome to LFS S2! Kiss your social life byezeebye!

Oooh, everybody look at your WRs one last time.

Welcome. (social life sentence already covered)

I've taken the liberty of adjusting the title of your thread, which is normal when solutions are found. I hope it sums up your experience!

:sadbanana

Well, I just followed the advice of a number of people and downloaded patch u20, tried again and POOF, I'm in a fz50 GTR going backwards into some armco... and HOW many servers?!? 445! I'm only used to 100-150 choices of idiots and wreckers, but know I've got to choose between GAJILLIONS of ACTUAL people who want to RACE! UHHHHHhhhhh (fainted)

Quote from zeugnimod :

Oooh, everybody look at your WRs one last time.

Welcome. (social life sentence already covered)

I wish! Just had first go in the Beemer and stacked it through a wall, so your records are safe, for now...