Kathryn, I have VST up and running on Windows 7 64 bit. The Chart works too. I don't know if this is the Plus Version though. Please let me know if I can help further - you can always send me a PM.

Where is the link for the VST, as this sounds a lot more fun than hand writtern lists

Big Hayley, see if this link will work. I copied it from the address bar on the VST, so you'll more than likely have to copy and paste

http://www.ldwforums.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=104281#Post104281

I realize it has been some time since the last note on this thread, but I thought I'd give it a try. I played Plant Tycoon fairly regularly some time ago, and was using the Virtual Seed tray - delightful little invention! Haven't played for 2 or 3 years. I came back to it yesterday, and worked on my existing game. It worked yesterday and even some of today, but after playing for a bit today, when I went to open the VST, I got an error message - "You do not have an active PT Games. Start a new Game in Plant Tycoon." So I started a new game, and I still get the error message. Can you give me any tips on how to get things rolling again? Thanks.

As mentioned in this thread, a couple of others have had the same problem. I'm afraid it seems likely that Borg isn't around to fix the problem as I mention in the other thread.

Okey dokey, thanks. Dang, I really liked that tray!! I'll keep trying, I guess, but won't count on it. Thanks for the reply.

Unable to run VST+ on a Win7 as it says there is no active game.

Was there a solution that I missed?

I've read every post in this and the Win 8.1 VST thread and am not alone with this problem.

Also followed the tutorial steps to make fresh backups prior to trying this - 'just in case' - oh well, now I have a extra set of backups.

Game is fine but now it seems I'll just have to start culling the game's seed tray of the more exotic crosses while keeping all Tier one seeds.

Tried setting the Compatibility mode to Win XP SP3 for the VST.

That didn't help.

Thought about changing Plant Tycoon to the same compatibility mode but am leery about "fixing what's not broken".

Looked into the .NET Framework 2.0 and on the Win7 it is incorporated into the Operating System rather than having a stack of versions in the Program Files like on the XP.

Maybe VST can't "find" it?

I may try to load them both (PT & VST) onto the Win10 just for fun.

Time to delete more seeds!

After a little digging around as to why the VST won't run I found out:

1.) Net Framework 2.0 can not be downloaded to a WIN 7.

2.) The app - the VST - written in an older version of Visual Basic targeted the 2.0 Framework. It would need to be changed to target the 3.5 Framework to be compatible on XP, Vista, Win 7.

3.) The original author hasn't been around in years and her work is copyrighted.

4.) a "possible" work around would be to set up a VirtualBox with XP's OS and the 2.0 Framework plus PT & the VST.

In a nutshell - it was nice while it lasted.

correction to 2.) should read Visual Studio in C# - oops!

Did something change when PT was updated so that the VST can't read the .LDW files?