GW + Vista?
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Ok, they were fairly sure that it would be ok, but I didn't want to drop $1,000 for a laptop that didn't play Guild Wars. Do you know anything about the graphics card being able to handle Guild Wars. I was told that Guild Wars looks for a 3d Accelerator/graphics card plug in, which new computers don't have. Can anyone tell me what kind of problems I might run into?
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Originally Posted by Arcane_Penguin
I ahve vista, works fine with the game, but I'll say this, I would buy an XP for gaming untill vista's bugs are fixed, vista only works with the latest games, and still only some of them. It likes to BSOD on you or crash all the time with games/programs older then a year or so.
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the only thing i've had vista BSOD on was my webcam when Msn tried to access it and thats it... I can play all my old game (down to 16bit games anyway) and i actually get better framerates out of my machine thatn I did under XP thanks to the dual core optimization and the better use of the Direct X API's under DX10
Zone alarm made my vista comp go into a BSOD loop, restart, BSOD, restart, BSOD, i sat and watched. had to start in safe mode and remove ZA.
Many of my old games and modtools (1-2 years old) don't work due to the OS, many other programs (like free firewalls and the like) arn't vista combatable or BSOD it (like ZA) my 3d modeling program which i spent $7000 AUD on has minor problems with the VISTA interfaces/themes. etc
I only keep my vista because the games and programs to be released in the future should be vista combatable and will need a good comp to run, untill then I have my 5 year old XP home edition tower linked to my new mouse/keyboard/monitor with a KVM for all my old games/programs/anything else that spits out fire at Vista.
Many of my old games and modtools (1-2 years old) don't work due to the OS, many other programs (like free firewalls and the like) arn't vista combatable or BSOD it (like ZA) my 3d modeling program which i spent $7000 AUD on has minor problems with the VISTA interfaces/themes. etc
I only keep my vista because the games and programs to be released in the future should be vista combatable and will need a good comp to run, untill then I have my 5 year old XP home edition tower linked to my new mouse/keyboard/monitor with a KVM for all my old games/programs/anything else that spits out fire at Vista.
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Originally Posted by Commander Ryker
I recently, within the last 2 months bought a laptop and put XP on it. As long as vista has the problems with mp3's, I will never use it.
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What problem with MP3's? I currently have 125Gb of MP3's on my PC and run a radio station from it and i have no issues with them what so ever, i can burn, rip, send to friends and I have no issues with DRM because I clicked the "Do you want to protect your music" button to off...
Again, misinformation through the media has people thinking and saying things that just aren't correct
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Originally Posted by Lonesamurai
complete crap...
the only thing i've had vista BSOD on was my webcam when Msn tried to access it and thats it... I can play all my old game (down to 16bit games anyway) and i actually get better framerates out of my machine thatn I did under XP thanks to the dual core optimization and the better use of the Direct X API's under DX10 |
That aside I generally agree with you - Vista isn't all doom and gloom. It is general a nice OS. The issues come from:
* still developing driver support (not so bad by now though, I guess)
* Microsoft Live service charging to play with your friends
* 64bit Vista not allowing uncertified drivers
* the question of how badly Microsoft are going to screw over consumers and hardware manufacturers trying to implement their premium content protection system that will undoubtedly fail to work in the end - although that is mostly a question for the future.
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Originally Posted by immortius
Well, while your acting as the voice of vista, I'll point out that DirectX 10 only really helps directX 10 games, and currently those few games that do support DirectX 10 don't make very good use of it (and drivers are still being optimised for it).
That aside I generally agree with you - Vista isn't all doom and gloom. It is general a nice OS. The issues come from: * still developing driver support (not so bad by now though, I guess) * Microsoft Live service charging to play with your friends * 64bit Vista not allowing uncertified drivers * the question of how badly Microsoft are going to screw over consumers and hardware manufacturers trying to implement their premium content protection system that will undoubtedly fail to work in the end - although that is mostly a question for the future. |
In order:
- Drivers are pretty good. Some hardware manufacturers are still tweaking however.
- I suggest you read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Games_for_Windows_-_LIVE
- That is a manufacturer's issue mostly. But there is a workaround patch that someone created for unsigned drivers.
- The premium content thing was demanded by the media conglomerates and can be gotten around a number of ways. Proven by hackers as usual with DRM protection. (The Windows Meda format was cracked again just last week.) Bill Gates himself even said that DRM was a burden. But in order to play ball, a compromise had to be met.
Vista and GW should run fine. Just keep in mind that Vista requires more resources than XP. So trying to run Vista on something less than 1GB RAM isn't a very good idea if you intend to play games. As for the video card, GW runs fine on GMAs 950 under XP, don't know about vista though. If you go with an intel GMA, don't expect anything fancy in terms of graphics. There are some pretty decent laptop video cards. The GeForce Go 7600 is decent, anything equivalent or above that will run GW with all bells and whistles with decent fps.