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Re: The wonderful ImpactPlus

null@example.com (Alfred) — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 22:05:46 +0000

William wrote:

Yes, that was good advice and got it going on Windows 8.1
However, if I remember correctly, when I installed it on my old computer, which ran on Windows 10, I think that it worked straightaway without any need to do that process.
It is not installed on this machine.
William

I've just installed ImpactPlus 5.1 on a Windows 10* laptop. When I first attempted to run it, nothing happened: no error message, it simply didn't run. Renaming WININET.DLL enabled it to launch correctly.

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*Windows 10 Pro, Version 22H2 (OS Build 19045.4046)

Re: The wonderful ImpactPlus

null@example.com (William) — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 10:03:28 +0000

Yes, that was good advice and got it going on Windows 8.1

However, if I remember correctly, when I installed it on my old computer, which ran on Windows 10, I think that it worked straightaway without any need to do that process.

It is not installed on this machine.

William

Re: The wonderful ImpactPlus

null@example.com (Alfred) — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 21:48:04 +0000

It’s worth noting that in order to run ImpactPlus on recent versions of Windows you will need to follow this advice posted to the CommunityPlus Forum by Patrick Connor:

If you rename or delete this file (and ONLY this file) ImpactPlus 5 should run on Windows 8.1
• "C:\Program Files (x86)\Serif\ImpactPlus\5.0\WININET.DLL"
Thanks Ali/William for the nudge (and thanks to Jon P for the solution)

The wonderful ImpactPlus

null@example.com (William) — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 21:08:47 +0000

ImpactPlus is a wonderful program.

It is from nearly twenty years ago yet it still works well.

I had great problems trying to use it at first until I found that I could use it by putting numbers in the status panel and thus not needing to drag anything with a mouse pointer, after which I found that I could get it to work magnificently.

One works in a three-dimensional space to produce a scene, then one can rotate so as to display a view from a chosen viewpoint and then export a two-dimensional image as viewed from that viewpoint.

William