pssetup.exe and psclient.exe both crash (vista x64)

[Durwyn]

gigaherz recompiled the game from source. that means he made "his" own .exe for launching the game

you sound like novice (?) in computing and all 
better would be that gigaherz distribute the recompiled client to others users of Vista x64 to see if that help any other peeps

[Saevitia]

Yes I am.... heh oh well....but giga.......that would be AMAZING!!!!!!

[gigaherz]

I dont' have any problem with this, but if the forum doesn't allow it I will (if you haven't done it already) remove the link ASAP.

This is a straight unmodified build of PlaneShift's stable branch from the SVN (as of 2008/04/02, Y/M/D), compiled following the official guide.
I built it with vs2005 under Microsoft Vista Home Premium with the Windows SDK v6.0a installed (but not sure if it still uses the vs2005 libraries anyway).

http://www.uploading.com/files/Q9087L4I/PlaneShift-stable-vs2005-vista-zlib.zip.html (was missing zlib1.dll)

Reminder: This a UNOFFICIAL build of a program in development, so I guess neither me nor the PlaneShift developers will provide support for it. I built it, and it worked for me, so if it also works for you, be happy, if it doesn't... well you can try to follow the compilation guide yourself and try your luck.

[Durwyn]

*no stupid question to see here* .... 

[gigaherz]

oh? sorry I have it installed on my system folder so I didn't know it was needed.

http://www.zlib.net/zlib123-dll.zip

This is the official distribution package, get the dll from it.

[Saevitia]

questions....where do i extract the files to? what is missing? it doesn't work... and.........do i need anything out of the basics of not knowing much of computers?

*edit*

now it says cal3.dll was not found.......

[gigaherz]

Don't double-post, it's rude... use the [MODIFY] button instead.

You are supposed to extract ALL the files in your existing planeshift folder, with the latest updated files (run psupdate.exe before extracting)... cal3d.dll is clearly in the zip...

[Saevitia]

Still no luck. Now its just not doing anything at all....help? I know...I need to learn more about computers. I'm sorry for bugging you so much, I'm just really looking for a new mmorpg to consume my life yet again.

[gigaherz]

Well I can't really help much anymore... if you don't have any error message, then it should have just worked. :/

As I said, I can't really help with it... I don't know anything about the code (only it's big), I don't know what problems might it have, even less what might cause them, I just built it, and it worked for me... sorry.

[Durwyn]

Be sure to have a X64 vista! the x32 wont simply launch the game. (ie: you double click, nothing happens)

go to Config Panel=>System. and look for something like "Exploitation System x bits".
if you have 32, then its over. if you have 64, then you have no luck

i bet you have a 32 bits
search the forum if any solution have been found/answered yet. otherwise post a thread clearly explaining what doesnt work and what you tried to solve it.