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I've compiled a game into a small demo, and wanted to see if it would work on Vista, so I tried it on my brothers PC, which is vista, and it didn't work, it just stayed black, then
Strange question: Does your brother's computer have the required DLL on it? Because if you try to run a game without the dll it does something that sounds the same: opens, displays black, then shuts down.