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On Sat, 13 Feb 2016 20:29:27 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
<dtr...@sonic.net> wrote:

>On 2/13/2016 3:03 PM, Rin Stowleigh wrote:
>> On Sat, 13 Feb 2016 17:05:04 -0500, DMP <D...@mungemaid.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I tried all the compatibility settings in properties with scaling both
>>> on and off. Still no start. I don't have a Creative Labs sound card, but
>>> just use sound from the motherboard with Real-tek drivers.
>>
>> Just as an FYI, I mentioned Creative because they took over the OpenAL
>> project from another developer as an open standards project.  It's a
>> cross platform driver, and you don't have to use a Creative brand card
>> to use OpenAL.
>>
>> Also when I said Creative drivers are notorious for this, I wasn't
>> necessarily picking on them as a company.  The problem is that because
>> Windows is designed to work with a gazillion different audio interface
>> hardware possibilities, there are a lot of things that can go wrong
>> with regards to gaming.  If Microsoft went the way of Apple, and made
>> their software runnable only on their own hardware, this sort of audio
>> driver snafu would go largely away because it removes driver
>> configuration differences as a potential source of issue.
>>
>This is what Microsoft is doing with WX.  I don't have a URL for the 
>press release but they have announced that WX will not be fully 
>supported unless it is being running on certain hardware.
>
>(Of course they waited until WX had been forcefully installed on 
>millions of "non-compatible" machines....)

Umm..  There is a massive difference between saying "ok, here are the
tens of thousands or so of compatible devices" and saying "our OS will
only run on hardware we sell you".