ME2, The problems that you are seeing could just be a result of poor programming practices. When a program ends normally, it should "return 0" to the shell. It sounds like in some of these cases it is returning something other than 0, causing Vista/Win7 to thing that the program terminated abnormally.
Just something I have seen working in a Unix/Linux/Shell (perl/bash) world. HTH, Joe Fox Systems/Network Administrator Mobile# (716) 846-9308 http://www.linkedin.com/in/josephfoxjr On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Micheal Espinola Jr < michealespin...@gmail.com> wrote: > I dont have any issues with Steam or any Steam apps playing integrated > or standalone. The only issues I see is when I quit a game/app. > Vista thinks the app crashed even though I gracefully quit. > > -- > ME2 > > > > On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Benjamin Zachary - Lists > <li...@levelfive.us> wrote: > > I was tooling around yesterday on Windows 7 apps, and people were > > complaining about the steam engine. Saying that if you played some of > those > > games without steam then they worked (the demo or something). > > > > Apparently, IIRC Windows 7 works better with steam. I was looking for > City > > of Heroes which works fine in Win7 and just recall seeing several posts > > about steam vista/win7 > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 8:59 AM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: Vista annoyance > > > > I run Vista Ultimate 64-bit at home, and I have been experiencing an > > annoyance since day-one of installing it (tried reinstalling it as > > well). The thing is, with specific programs, when I close them - > > Vista thinks they have crashed. The applications have otherwise > > closed properly, but Vista doesn't think so - and activates its > > Problem Reports and Solutions tool. This frequently happens when > > closing applications such as WinAmp, Firefox, Trillian, as well as > > various Games that are installed via Steam (the error is centralized > > to Steam itself, and not the various game I may have been playing > > (could be Team Fotress 2, Left 4 Dead, Peggle Deluxe, Bioshock, > > Portal). > > > > I haven't had much luck resolving this, and its taken a secondary > > priority because nothing actually seems to be wrong. > > > > Has anyone else experienced this behavior? > > > > -- > > ME2 > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
