Aceit

[muskokaandtahoe]

I've just read that Aceit doesn't run on Win11.

Anybody know how to get in touch with the author?

[anderson martins]

I've just read that Aceit doesn't run on Win11.

Anybody know how to get in touch with the author?

very old the initial version .


very old the initial version .
July 27, 2006
AceIt v.1.3.4

Contacts no longer work.
Scott M. Miller (ameritech.net)

By the way, many old users no longer respond to contacts and do not have these updated.

[slipperman]

Hi,
I don't have Windows 11 so can't offer any practical help, but ...

.... it appears that AceIt could be a Visual Basic program - if so, do the runtimes have to be added into Win 11?
.... Does AceIt work in Command Line mode?
.... This must have been tried, but I thought I'd better add it, for completeness! Compatibility mode?

Cheers,
Ged

[geepster775]

Its not like this entire suite of tools becoming increasingly unreliable even on Win 10 hasn't been discussed before.

https://www.trainsim.com/vbts/showth...-working-right

.dds users avoid all this anyway.

[slipperman]

Hi All,
For those who haven't seen it, or don't have access, a post on elvastower.com from ckawahara contains the following :

Did an experiment...Installed aceit 1.3.4 onto a clean pc with win 11 Pro (was 10 but Microsoft did an update to 11).
Clicked desktop icon
Error: "Unable to create direct3d device"
DXDiag says DX12 installed, but apparently is not completely backward compatible.
Copied and registered dx8vb.dll in system32 and syswow64.
Ran aceit and aceit says successfully created a .ace file from the .bmp.

Caveat : I cannot confirm this, but it sounds promising

Cheers,
Ged

[eolesen]

I ran into this last night.

As Craig's post said, dx8vb is required in both of the sys folders and needs to be registered.

Then, running the Route Riter installation and TGATool2a installations fixed everything.

[conductorchris]

Thanks for this. I too had this problem. Got a new computer and am slowly putting my simming tools back together. I was banging my head against the wall trying to register dx8vb.dll Not until I saw your post did I try putting it in BOTH windows system folders -- which was what it needed to work.

This .dll is needed for essentially any older .ace related tools.

Christopher