Tides and Currents freeware

[anderbra]

Hi everyone,

I've been lurking in the background for awhile and learning how things work in the forums. By the standards I've seen, I'm a novice sailor, happy and proud owner of a Niagara 31.

In the past five years I've used a tides and currents freeware (wxtide32) on my previous computer. My new laptop (with sickening windows Vista), doesn't run the program. Does anyone know a Free/Shareware for tides that run on Vista?

Does anybody have a good input on the topic? I appreciate any suggestions.

[artbyjody]

Originally Posted by anderbra

Hi everyone,

I've been lurking in the background for awhile and learning how things work in the forums. By the standards I've seen, I'm a novice sailor, happy and proud owner of a Niagara 31.

In the past five years I've used a tides and currents freeware (wxtide32) on my previous computer. My new laptop (with sickening windows Vista), doesn't run the program. Does anyone know a Free/Shareware for tides that run on Vista?

Does anybody have a good input on the topic? I appreciate any suggestions.

You can actually run it by setting the shortcut properties to run : "legacy mode".. and that will get you through the crunch

[anderbra]

Thank you for the reply Jody.
The "legacy mode" you mention, is it a set up in Vista?

[artbyjody]

Originally Posted by anderbra

Thank you for the reply Jody.
The "legacy mode" you mention, is it a set up in Vista?

Yes, after installing it - browse to either the Program shortcut or the actually .exe file - right click and select properties... select Compatibility tab as per screen shot


selecting properties of program

combat2.jpg

properties window - yellow highlight is what you look at
combat.jpg

[anderbra]

Thank you sooo much. Will try it tomorrow.
good night.

[tweitz]

I have had the same problem and had been very frustrated, because I had used the program on my prior computer for years and really liked it. I tried the legacy fix and it did not work for me. What would happen every time was that a box popped up labeled "fatal internal error," containing the following information: "Could not open harmonics file: 'harmonics-2004-06-14.tcd'." I then checked and there is a file by that name that was not in the directory for WXTide32, but was in the download directory. When I copied it into the WXTide32 directory, and also did the legacy drill described by artbyjody it finally worked for me.

[hellosailor]

I had the same problem--but the software WILL run under Vista. It is just the installation process that is broken. Legacy mode isn't needed either.

I don't remember the details but it was something like this: Install the software, then manually move the WXTIDE32 folder into "Program files", and run it from the executable that is there--or a shortcut pointing to that executable.

I'm sure I've got at least part of that mixed up...but will swear to you that's where I have manually moved it, and where I run it from, without using legacy mode, under Vista Ultimate.

It is only the default location or the installation routine itself that is not suitable for Vista.