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Amazon overlook Windows Vista completely, clearly they don't believe Vista to be fit for gaming purposes.
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Amazon overlook Windows Vista completely, clearly they don't believe Vista to be fit for gaming purposes.
Some games are listed as xp/vista, but I'd guess this is just a mistake - last week they were all saying vista only.
well, they are right....
That's a matter of opinion frankly, and one I don't agree with. Everything I've thrown at Vista just worked, with the exception of Sony Vegas 7 (itself tripping over because of a 3rd party product... ironically enough a Microsoft one :D).Quote:
Originally Posted by UltraMagnus
It's in Amazon's best interests to promote games for Vista. There's probably no real rush, but people will be buying PCs with Vista on them. Whether that's intentional or not we don't know, but the vast majority of consumer PCs now come with Vista as standard. If Amazon were to simply pretend Vista didn't exist, they would lose sales from the ignorant.
An opinion shared by many!!!!Quote:
That's a matter of opinion frankly
Typically by people who don't believe they need to update their hardware mor than every 5 years, and who refuse to download proper drivers and patches. By now, most of the driver problems for most people running modern hardware have been worked out. And for the remainign problems...every new OS has incompatibilities. It happens; archaic hardware can't be supported forever, and other hardware is sometimes *too new* to be supported efficiently if it comes out aroun the time of a new OS release. For those of you who don't remember, XP had the same problems upon its release. I never got Rogue Spear to run right on my P3-M laptop with the GeForce2 GO vid card (which was pretty new at the time), although it ran fine on my old PII. It was due to Xp and drivers for my grpahics card not working well together. I tried it again about 18 months after getting my laptop and it worked fine. For many months, I had numerous BSODs or sudden reboots due to Xp and this card too. But these (for the most part) were worked out over time.Quote:
Originally Posted by gtech
So what about when you buy a new pc with vista then a few of your fav games (and numerous other software titles) refuse to work, then you spend days scouring the net for drivers and fixes without luck.
There are so many configs out there it's impossible to solve everyone's problems, but i never had this much trouble with xp.
My friend has gone back to xp because the headache of trying to get new stuff running is a right PITA. Dont worry though i already told my mate to wait 18 months then he should be able to do what he wants with vista until then...
blimey, seemed like a fairly tongue in cheek article to me...
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I'll assume you went straight from 3.11 to XP then? The problems were... extensive. A lot more extensive.Quote:
Originally Posted by gtech
The solution is to dual boot xp and vista. When you are happy everything is tickety boo with vista then just use it. I will only move to vista when I see a significant advantage in gaming and DX10.