A question for all you smart kids

Lord of the Posts Gender: Age: 20 Joined: 21 Apr 2007

oio wrote:

BUT vista 64 cant handle most games thus making it useless again...

Oh, it can handle the games. The games can't handle it!

Mostly Harmless Gender: Age: 25 Joined: 11 Jun 2007

I have vista home premium 64 bit i have no problems running games but i do usually have to go through and find a Vista patch for the game i am wanting to play.I had to find a vista patch for vista when i reinstalled the game on my new comp.

try that first if u still have problems make sure u turn off all non-essential programs I.E. limewire napster Instant messenger stuff that isnt required to run ur comp or the nwn ggame in other words

Forum Monkey Joined: 20 Dec 2005

Pandora wrote:

oio wrote:

BUT vista 64 cant handle most games thus making it useless again...

Oh, it can handle the games. The games can't handle it!

Will be interesting to see if ms release a new os when 64 bit proccessing becomes a standard after all the shenanegins and nonsense that vista 64 has created....and ms are now acctually embroiled with another lawsuit...this time over the vista ready sticker....that only meens that the component can run vista basic:P

I find it annoying that you can get vista 32bit and it runs everything you want ....but has a memory cap that is not condusive to large graphics cards and flash memory....or 64bit and a large limitation on games you can play.....or the hassle of various patches to make anything work....

Vista is a great os.....i could never see me going back to xp.....but like most things that are to good to be true.....vista is in its own way pants:P

Lord of the Posts Gender: Age: 20 Joined: 21 Apr 2007

Ja, software support for x64 processors is still dumpy atm, but since SP1 was released you're going to start seeing OS rollovers in more companies creating better support for Vista and x64 chips. Goodbye, XP, it was a great run!

Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 10:32 pm

shillow carin wrote:

Pokesi wrote:

shillow carin wrote:

the problem is it has 3 years of warenty left and If I remove vist and put xp on it by by waurenty

lol so u actually paid from m$ stuff....who does that.

hehe I got it from some people who were shall I say desperate for money.
I paid about 1/3 what it cost new 1 year ago.

It's a dual core with 1 gig ram it should do fine.

I am going to check a few things.

I will try to send you some steps to improve performance on Vista, but 1G is not enough to run things fast (even 2G).

As the warranty, you can always make the factory set of recovery disks (it should take 2 DVD's) and reeintall if needed. Then you can install XP, until you can afford more RAM.

"harmless" maggot Gender: Joined: 18 Feb 2006

mine runs everything i ever played on it nwn1 nwn2 counterstrike and FEAR with no prob only 1 gig ram

Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 2:32 am

Vista works fine for most games, some require simple workarounds.

Edit: forgot to type something

Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 6:31 am

Rustybobo wrote:

For peoples that say vista suck try it first.

Vista with sp1 work very nice. But you require alot of memory, get 4gig of ram and it work very nice.

Anything with 4gb ram will work fine, still doesn't change the fact it uses up an obscene amount of ram to run smoothly.

Lord of the Posts Gender: Age: 19 Joined: 24 Dec 2005

use linux u nubs

Squire Gender: Age: 26 Joined: 23 Dec 2005

shillow carin wrote:

the problem is it has 3 years of warenty left and If I remove vist and put xp on it by by waurenty

Install XP
Hardware problem appears
Nuke HD with one of many wipers out there
Take it to the shop and swear you have no idea what happened.

Post Master Gender: Age: 35 Joined: 30 Jan 2006

Pokesi wrote:

use linux u nubs

There is a hack that will cut vista's memory footprint down to nearly the size of xp's. linux is a great option if you just want to run nwn1 and the computer has an nvidia gpu. I don't know of a DM client for linux, but then again I've never looked for one.

Mostly Harmless Gender: Age: 25 Joined: 11 Jun 2007

ok jedi so if there is a hack what is it

Post Master Gender: Age: 35 Joined: 30 Jan 2006

truemazdaspeedmc wrote:

ok jedi so if there is a hack what is it

I think I read about it on /. but I can't say for sure. IIRC it's an application that you can download off the internet. I rarely use windows, much less vista, so it was of no interest to me, but perhaps someone else here knows about it. If not, I'll ask one of my buddies later on.