TMO on Windows Vista

[Zooz]

Its impossible that they don't know about it already...
But if enough people ask about it, maybe it'll go up in their priorities list.

[Mixo]

Not quite. That's what I thought at first too. However, TM, which is just Trackmania, was the first TM game released by Nadeo; no upgrades, no bells and whistles, blah blah blah. A few years later, after they released TMSunrise, Nadeo upgraded Trackmania with the Sunrise graphics engine and added a mediatracker and replay editor and such in an upgrade called Power-Up. Later, they released the whole thing in one CD called Trackmania Original. I just have the first version.

Not quite. The first TM was just Trackmania as you say. I think strictly speaking this was version 0.0.1.0 but many people refer to it as 1.0.0. Then there was 1.1.0, which was still called just TrackMania. It was a bugfix patch, no new blocks or anything like that. A few months (not years) later an update called PowerUp (version 1.2.5) was released. It had new blocks and some other changes but the graphics engine was the same and no mediatracker or replay editor. Then Sunrise was released (version 1.4.7) which was of course a completely different game with 3 all-new environments, and had a new graphics engine and mediatracker. Then TrackMania Original (1.5.0, sometimes referred to as LevelUp) was released which was an update for PowerUp with the original 3 environments but with more new blocks and the improvements from Sunrise. Versions 1.2.5 and 1.5.0 both came as downloadable patches and as all-in-one CDs.

From memory, but it ties up with these sources:
http://forum.deepsilver.com/forum/showt ... hp?t=18145
http://en.tm-wiki.org/wiki/TrackMania_Original
http://en.tm-wiki.org/wiki/TrackMania_Sunrise

[pobmaestro]

Its impossible that they don't know about it already...
But if enough people ask about it, maybe it'll go up in their priorities list.

Well I wouldn't be suprised if they didn't know if no-one has contacted, and I doubt they have time to trail through all the forum posts? It wouldn't do any harm if people contacted them to let them know of the problem, and some influencial bodies asking aswell would help

[Zooz]

I've already mentioned it to Florent at least once

[pobmaestro]

If Zooz isn't influencial enough then who is

Well the only reason to play TMO is for nostagia. Since its included in TMU(F) and you can copy all music/skins/tracks from TMO anyhow, so they have no real need to draw their attention to pleasing such a small sector.

[Mixo]

Well the only reason to play TMO is for nostagia.

No, there are several good reasons why someone might want to play older versions of TM.

[Trackmaniack]

Gots to agree with that....you can crank the graphics up higher on older TMs....and as such, they're worth more than just nostalgic goodness...

[pobmaestro]

lol sorry, I have obviously underestimated the TMO community

you can crank the graphics up higher on older TMs

I don't quite understand that, TMUF graphics on the original environments are vastly superior, unless you mean it works better on your computer?

BTW does the TMO ladder still function?

[Trackmaniack]

What I mean by that is with TMN and beyond, they did away with a feature that I found quite helpful. I don't remember what it was called, but it basically adjusted the view distance....you could have it set to off, or auto, or a set number of blocks. I liked the medium setting best, because I could crank the graphics up pretty high and still have high performance.

[Mixo]

TMO ladder still works, yes. Kind of wish it didn't.

I remember having to use "limit depth" on slow computers; it was a pretty handy feature.

[mskinggd]

thats like the patch for fix starforce on trackmania nations ESWC.

[pobmaestro]

Maybe now with Nadeo releasing a Vista patch for TMSX they will turn their attention to TMO

[Xymph]

Maybe now with Nadeo releasing a Vista patch for TMSX they will turn their attention to TMO

Now? That patch was released on Aug 20, 2007. Don't hold your breath.

[Acceleracer_01]

That really annoys that it doesn´t work on Vista (for me).

I had version 1.2.5 then upgraded to Original (1.5.0), downloaded the Vista patch (1.5.0 ---> 1.5.2) then it says "TMO was not found on your computer".

Why doesn´t work the Vista patch? Is it my computer´s fault?

[pobmaestro]

Maybe now with Nadeo releasing a Vista patch for TMSX they will turn their attention to TMO

Now? That patch was released on Aug 20, 2007. Don't hold your breath.

Oops that was the late night error of only looking at the date for the most recent posts and not checking the original post

Acceleracer that is the problem with trying to run Trackmania with the TMO Vista patch, so it's not your computer but a bug with the patch which means Trackmania 1 is unplayable on Vista.