Another week, so another write-up. Since the last newspost, 35 bug reports were marked as resolved.

Within these, one issue was where players could be found choking on your screen (eg. by the result of smoke grenade), but werent actually on theirs. ChrML put some effort into synchronising it, which also allowed to implement scripting function isPlayerChoking that can detect this. He also fixed an odd and recently discovered synchronisation issue, which was causing vehicle desync (if you had a passenger in your vehicle who timed out, vehicle would warp back to the last location you were before he lost the connection with the server locally).

Some GTASA weapon and player synchronisation glitches were also fixed this week. One example is where you could get desynced if you were near a car with a weapon, allowing you to run around locally (even faster than usual) while staying still for remote players. In some cases it could also lead to shooting a weapon without losing the ammo locally. This bug was discovered quite long ago - during the first dm alphas, however its finally fixed now.
Another glitch was related with increased firing rate for some weapons. Both were fixed by ChrML as well.

eAi has also put some effort into getting the mod by fixing issues like improper animations when entering a Vortex, radio music appearing when being glued to a car, or problems with automatic resource updating upon their reupload.

Other developers like MrJax and kevuwk did some fixes to broken scripting functions and functions/events or resources which could crash the server when used under certain conditions. You should have been able to see them in changelogs earlier during the week.

That being said, instead of describing these further Ive decided to write about something else - the issue which was raised by many of our fans: compatibility with Windows Vista™.
Since I had the possibility of getting ahold of Windows Vista™ Business edition, I thought I will try to see if Ill be able to get latest DM build running under it. Ive installed Vista and the mod on my pc, and after some small tweaks to MTA Ive managed to get it running flawlessly and without any OS-related problems.

You dont need to worry about these tweaks now, as its likely you wont be doing them when the mod is released.

I hope this finally gives you a definite answer for the Vista-compatibility questions. Thats all from me, so until next week .