Hi podperson - that sounds like an error in the protection mechanism that is wrapped around the 30-day trial version.

Try the alternate trial version from here:
http://moi3d.com/1.0/trial/moi_v1_nosave_trial_setup.exe

That does not have the protection mechanism on it, and does not expire, but instead has saving disabled. It's actually closer in structure to the full release version.

If that "nosave" trial version works, then probably the full version will also work even if the 30-day trial does not.

- Michael

Hi Michael -- thanks for replying. I worked that out for myself (see my edits, above).

I can verify however that MoI3D works flawlessly (so far as I can tell) under VMWare 2.x / Windows XP Professional.

Interesting that you got it to work in VMWare.

I have been trying several ways to get MoI to work on an Aspire One netbook (Linpus Linux = Fedora 8 more or less) without success.

I tried VirtualBox which did not work (forum message here: http://moi3d.com/forum/messages.php?webtag=MOI&msg=2795.1 )

I was going to try Xen but I don't believe the Atom CPU is up to it from what I have read.

I tried Wine (1.1.9 from memory) and tried using genuine DirectX dlls and some other things. No joy.

I tried to get VMWare player installed but there are known issues with Fedora which require a patch. The patch did not work on the Aspire One :(

I'm next going to try installing XP to a USB stick and run from there.

Well done getting it to work with VMWare. What Linux, machine specs etc are you running?

I'm running OS X 10.5.8 ;-) VMWare Fusion -- I don't know if VMWare Fusion is more advanced than the equivalent under Linux (it may have advantages owing to Mac driver support).

Ah, of course, you said you were on a Mac.