Requesting official statement from Anet about GW supported on Vista or not.

Windows Vista and Direct X 10 have been delayed to Jan 2007 depending on vista beta 2 feedback, that means after CH3 release within 2-3 months.

Since many of GW fans and i will upgrade to vista when it comes, i hope to hear official word from you guys that GW will be supported on vista and DX 10 or at least you are keep tracking this event. I don't want to choose between my new OS and my favorite game.

thanks in advace Anet.

PS: i see beta testers participating in GWG forums..did they start testing GW on vista beta 2 and give Anet feedback about crashes or bugs ?!!

I'd be suprised if you get an 'official statement'. Maybe a remark, but not an official statement. Regularly I see threads like 'ANET DEVS READ THIS', 'PLS ANET FIX THIS', 'OPEN LETTER TO DEVS', etc.

These shout outs on forum are numerous....... and never ending. Some have a point, some are pointless... I wonder if they will still read threads like this after the many that have passed their eyes in the past.
But good luck, maybe they'll give it a peek...

~ Makk.

One of the major tech sites did an artical about current popular games and how well they run (if at all) on Vista Beta 2.

Guild Wars ran with flying colors, even in windowed mode.

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Vista supports DX9 (and runs on DX9 if there is no DX10 hardware present), so every WinXP game that works on DirectX should work on Vista, if there are some exceptions to that I'd be happy to read more on that

And I doubt majority of people will hop onto the Vista bandwagon right away, especially with the heavier system requirements, not everyone has the super gaming rigs.

vvv- Thanks! One additional nail to 'Why StarForce sucks' too :P

Will Vista Run Your Games? - extremetech.com

GWF and GWP both work in Beta 2.

Windows is still going to support compatability mode so I don't see why this is even an issue.

its a valid question!

but its so long away I agree with Makkert, they are not likley to give an official comment.

Also, what actually are the chances of it NOT working?.. I hardly think that ANET will just ignore this. they will HAVE to make it work, otherwise Guildwars has a very short life.

The chances of Guild Wars not running properly? Minimal. The chances of Vista not running properly? Well....

Why do you care? If you're smart, you're not getting Vista until forced to, at which point they've (hopefully) ironed out most of the serious bugs.

I didn't mention in my OP about forced to change to vista..nobody is forced to change to vista when it become released..but people will buy it anyway because of its great features.

"ATI or Nividia will not state on their site that all their customers don't upgarde your OS to vista because we are busy of releasing graphic cards these days and we don't have time to test our cards on vista and you have to wait."

Yeah, anybody who plans on 'upgrading' to Vista before they pry XP from you by force is a masochist.

Whether games will run is going to be the least of your worries...

Actually, zakaria, people WILL be "forced", eventually.

If past experience serves as an example, when Vista is released, it'll instanty become pretty much impossible to buy a new system with XP.

As long as you NEVER need a new computer... well then, great!

Who buys prebuilt systems with pre-installed XP anyways?

rofl!

yea its true.. most sensible people would probably not upgrade straight away, especially not gamers..

however, some people like to be at the cutting edge of Microshite's operating systems so its still an interesting topic, if nothing else.

Most people actually.

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As far as compatability goes, thats a non-issue, DX 9 is fully supported on Vista, I think some might be confused about DX 10 which will be Vista only.

The games that currently have issues running on Vista's Beta releases were simply badly coded since the problems with most of these games have been solved by patches from the game makers.

This may be addressed elsewhere but, IMHO, a better question is will GW ever run on Linux?

I'm playing Guild Wars on Vista Beta 2 right now. Runs like a charm.

Installing GW on Ubuntu Linux as we speak. Takes a lot of configuring though...

Agree....
LOL..when Microsoft starts issuing Service pack updates for Vista 2 MONTHS before it gets released (like they did with XP), people better start worrying about Vista working correctly 1st....