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[Smew]

Aw, that sucks.
Ah well, there's still plenty of other opprotunities.

[Augustus]

Okay, i got it to work.  I was under the impression that for it to work, something had to pop up on my screen.  But as it happens I kept installing / uninstalling it.  So now i just double click it and its gewds.

[Jifodus]

Yes, there's only popups if something is "wrong".  If there are no popups, then it probably worked and you should actually try it to make sure.

It also asks if you want to unpatch DF, which was supposed to be the tip-off that it's already been patched.
(Of course, nobody ever reads popups anymore.)

[Aggiedog]

Hmm, I am getting the could not open dwarf fortress process error. I am on Windows XP, using 40d, and have the administrator account. Any suggestions?

[radicalaces]

Ugh, this doesn't work for me. It tells me to start DF.

I'm already certain however that it's a compatibility issue with x64.

I hate x64

[Aggiedog]

Hmm, I am getting the could not open dwarf fortress process error. I am on Windows XP, using 40d, and have the administrator account. Any suggestions?

Bah, I forgot to say I am using x32.

[Vilien]

This is a great tool. Thanks.

[Michaelsoftman]

Doesn't work for me on either 40d or 40d9 sadly =/

[Gorjo MacGrymm]

i cannot make it work with 40d or 40d9 either.  Same message as Smew

[finesse]

Just letting you know this utill is working with 40d11 in 64bit Windows 7. Didn't need elevation either.

[Malicus]

I, too, have the OpenProcess(Dwarf Fortress) error when I try to use this.  I've tried with 40d, 40d11, and today I tried with 39f with the same result.  I'm running Windows XP Pro.  Has nobody figured out what is causing this?  Maybe somebody could figure this out if if we knew which error code it was throwing.

It seems suspicious that the only people reporting problems are running XP.  I have no way of knowing how it was programmed, but could this that I eventually turned up while googling have anything to do with the problem?

[Adamantine Fist]

I'm having the same problems as those above. I get the OpenProcess has failed error as well. I'm using XP Professional and have 40d.

[aklyatne]

Have you all tried renaming the .exe?  The program looks for Dwarf Fortress.exe, and not Dwarfort.exe.  Change the name of the .exe and it should work.

[Fedor]

Have you all tried renaming the .exe?  The program looks for Dwarf Fortress.exe, and not Dwarfort.exe.  Change the name of the .exe and it should work.

I changed the name of the .exe.  Still got the couldn't open process error.

Here's what I'm seeing.  Dwarf Fortress is running, in site search mode, and the window is titled "Dwarf Fortress".

[Baboonanza]

I discovered that if I compile it myself with MingW (GCC for windows more-or-less) it works perfectly. If I compile it with MSC8 or 9 it doesn't work.

This led me to fix the problem, with the hint from here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms684880%28VS.85%29.aspx(see the text next to PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS).

Basically MS increased the size of the PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS flag in Vista so programs compiled on later operation systems (or presumably the later versions of the Windows SDK) are not backwards compatible. Cocking Microsoft . Adding the following to hexsearch.c before including windows.h fixes the problem:

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#define _WIN32_WINNT _WIN32_WINNT_WINXP // Use smaller, pre-Vista PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS flagor you can dick with the flags to find out what the minimum necessary combination is (READ/WRITE alone is insufficient).