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From: Josef Drexler
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:49

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On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 23:11:43 +0000, Compfix wrote:

> Hi all.  Just for information.  I have been 'playing' with Windows Vista 
> beta and tried to get TTD working with it.  I got an error message to say 
> that TTDLOADW.OVL could not find dplay.dll.  I obtained a copy of this file 
> from the internet and put it in windows\system32 but got he same result.  I 
> suppose it could have been the wrong version.
> 
> Is anyone else trying Vista beta and have got TTD working?

It should work if you look for dplayx.dll on your system, and copy that as
dplay.dll into the TTD folder.

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