# Vassal and Vista

**URL:** <https://forum.vassalengine.org/t/vassal-and-vista/997>\
**Category:** Technical Support & Bugs\
**Created:** [September 8, 2008, 10:23pm UTC](https://forum.vassalengine.org/t/vassal-and-vista/997 "2008-09-08T22:23:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Katie\_Drake](https://forum.vassalengine.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/7ea924/32.png) [@Katie\_Drake](https://forum.vassalengine.org/u/Katie_Drake)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 10:23pm UTC](https://forum.vassalengine.org/t/vassal-and-vista/997/1 "2008-09-08T22:23:57Z")

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Hey guys. Every time I try to start up Vassal 3.0, this is what I get this:

[![](http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/2041/vassalbugthingyzn8.th.jpg)](http://img143.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vassalbugthingyzn8.jpg)

What on earth does it mean? :S

I’ve tried to update Java, reinstall Vassal and all that other good stuff. Any suggestions?

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**Author:** ![rk1](https://forum.vassalengine.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@rk1](https://forum.vassalengine.org/u/rk1)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2008, 11:41pm UTC](https://forum.vassalengine.org/t/vassal-and-vista/997/2 "2008-09-09T23:41:08Z")

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Here, ‘javaw’ is the Java runtime executable. If it can’t be found, I would suspect that Java wasn’t installed property on your machine. You can try typing ‘javaw -version’ in a command window and see what the error message is. Perhaps the javaw.exe file exists on your system, but the registry wasn’t updated with its location. You could try manually editing the .bat file to use the actual location of javaw.exe.

rk

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**Author:** ![uckelman](https://forum.vassalengine.org/user_avatar/forum.vassalengine.org/uckelman/32/10020_2.png) [@uckelman](https://forum.vassalengine.org/u/uckelman)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 8:30pm UTC](https://forum.vassalengine.org/t/vassal-and-vista/997/3 "2008-09-12T20:30:06Z")

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Thus spake “Katie Drake”:

> [@](#):
>
> Hey guys. Every time I try to start up Vassal 3.0, this is what I get this:
> 
> [Image: [img143.imageshack.us/img143/2041 … zn8.th.jpg](http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/2041/vassalbugthingyzn8.th.jpg) ] (  
> [img143.imageshack.us/my.php?imag … ngyzn8.jpg](http://img143.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vassalbugthingyzn8.jpg))
> 
> What on earth does it mean? :S
> 
> I’ve tried to update Java, reinstall Vassal and all that other good stuff. An  
> y suggestions?

This is a common problem with Windows. If you can’t get it worked out with  
VASSAL 3.0, you can try VASSAL 3.1.0-beta3, which won’t have this problem:

[downloads.sourceforge.net/vassal … indows.exe](http://downloads.sourceforge.net/vassalengine/VASSAL-3.1.0-beta3-windows.exe)

–  
J.

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