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Well, I picked up a Gateway with Dual Core running at 2 x 2.8Ghz, 2 x 2 Meg Level 2 cache,

Search the internet, Vista sucks for everything.

By the way, you can go to a local computer shop and ask them to put a rig together with XP, not Vista.

Search the internet, Vista sucks for everything.

By the way, you can go to a local computer shop and ask them to put a rig together with XP, not Vista.

A local computer shop couldn't touch the computer I have for the price I paid.  I may pick XP up from ebay, I haven't decided yet.

Vista doesn't support Visual Studio 2003 or earlier either.  M$ wants to force developers to upgrade!  Vista is E-V-I-L!!!!!!!  

Old news?

vista is basicly microsofts way or forceing gamers of XP

if you want adcanved features. such as those included in DX10 then buy vista or u are stuck with DX9

im on the verge  of buying vista on the same purchase of my DX10 card cos i want crysis so bad!

DAM YOU MICRO$OFT!

Jesus ,I so confused , I'll take the risk(buy) ,to first install in secondary Hdd to see what this vista is about  :-/....and may the Lord have mercy on my soul

Well, I've been doing some research and M$ has a product called Virtual PC that's free for home users.  It allows Vista to co-exist with a number of other OSes and you can just hit  key sequence to task switch between the OSes.  I wonder if I use Virtual PC with XP, will I be using the XP TCP/IP stack.  This solution would be a pain in the rear, but I suppose it's doable for online gaming.

[quote]Well, I've been doing some research and M$ has a product called Virtual PC that's free for home users.

Vista doesn't support Visual Studio 2003 or earlier either.  M$ wants to force developers to upgrade!  Vista is E-V-I-L!!!!!!!  

WHAT?? ahh crap, i was gonna install that tommorow...  ;D if my old copy of VB4.0 works, i'll let y'all know


But btw... check my specs in the sig  [smiley=smiley_down.gif] but i havnt had any stuttering etc for any of my games. CFS2, CFS3, FS2002, wolfenstein ET, and BF2 all run fine... nothing under 30fps. Oddly enough, doom1 seems to be my stuttery-est game, although I think thats doom1's fault  ;)

[quote][quote]Vista doesn't support Visual Studio 2003 or earlier either.

[quote] Jesus ,I so confused , I'll take the risk(buy) ,to first install in secondary Hdd to see what this vista is about

This link may yet convince me to install XP after all.....

http://www.vistaclues.com/vista-perform ... a-not-good

Vista doesn't support Visual Studio 2003 or earlier either.  M$ wants to force developers to upgrade!  Vista is E-V-I-L!!!!!!!  

WHAT?? ahh crap, i was gonna install that tommorow...  ;D if my old copy of VB4.0 works, i'll let y'all know


But btw... check my specs in the sig  [smiley=smiley_down.gif] but i havnt had any stuttering etc for any of my games. CFS2, CFS3, FS2002, wolfenstein ET, and BF2 all run fine... nothing under 30fps. Oddly enough, doom1 seems to be my stuttery-est game, although I think thats doom1's fault  ;)

Are you running those online?  I can play my games in single player mode with no studdering.  But it's the on-line gaming that gives me studdering.  After doing some research, the best explaination I saw has to do with Vista's TCP/IP stack.

BF2 and Wolfenstien et I play online, and they work fine with me. well...

About wolfenstien: does anybody know how to get the darn thing to work on vista? I've ran it as admin, i've ran it with no punkbuster, with punkbuster, i've updated punkbuster twice (manually), i've even disabled my firewall for a few minutes to try to get it to work... THe problem is, when I connect to 50% of servers, it gives me an error (something to do with a dll being unpure). The other 50% of servers I get in fine, then get kicked by punkbuster after about 20 seconds.
A friend of mine runs two servers, and one doesnt let me in, while the other just kicks after 20 seconds. Both servers use the same configs and all, same version of punkbuster etc.
I'm stumped...  :-/
I'm also installing Win2000 pro on another hard disk  :)

Punkbuster kicks me unless I run COD UO as administrator.  But the lagging is still there.  When I join a server, i sometime announce that everyone is free to laugh at me when I become fodder because of all the studdering.