Vista is crap for gaming :(

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#1 istuffedsunny
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If you're interested in playing your typical shooters you'll probably be satisfied but if you like playing Japanese eroge you'll be missing XP big time. Out of about 8 games I've installed so far less than half can work on Vista. Avoid this OS

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#2 -Unreal-
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What is Japanese eroge? Maybe it's that game that has the problems, and not Vista. So far I've not had any retail game fail to work on Vista.

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#3 Deadly_Fatalis
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I don't know about you, but I've played a couple of eroges just fine on Vista.
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#4 dnuggs40
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According to wiki eroges are erotic games...rofl. Yeah...great advice...avoid Vista because you can't play poorly developed pervert-ware haha.
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#5 knight0151
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Erotic ware.

I don't think much budget goes into them.

Nice fail thread there.

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#6 soliderPp
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If you're interested in playing your typical shooters you'll probably be satisfied but if you like playing Japanese eroge you'll be missing XP big time. Out of about 8 games I've installed so far less than half can work on Vista. Avoid this OS

istuffedsunny

I would imagine that it's user error not the OS that's the problem. I've yet to find a game that I can't run on Vista with a little work. Even games as old as Wolfenstine 3D work on Vista. I would scan though google there's probably some information on there that can get your games up and running.

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#7 NoAssKicker47
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What you mean is that Vista isn't for crap games.

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#8 Daytona_178
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This topic is ful of fail! Fancy telling us how old these games are?

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#9 Krayzie_3334
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According to wiki eroges are erotic games...rofl. Yeah...great advice...avoid Vista because you can't play poorly developed pervert-ware haha.dnuggs40

Lmao! I just did a google search and brought me too the wiki page... TC if your into that stuff well.. I honestly don't know what to say.:?

And TC too your statement "Vista is crap for Gaming" I've had no problems with it that couldn't be fixed with a fast search all my games work Fine with Vista even my older Mid-Late 90s Games run fine on it.

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#10 bowlingotter
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I know it's overly resource-intensive and sets a new standard for OS overhead, but I still believe Vista gets a bad rap. At least it's stable, and TS, Vista is fine for gaming. Just buy a lot of memory.

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#11 funked_up
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1. Install Windows 7 RC (yes! it's free!) 2. Use XP compatibility mode 3. ???? 4. PROFIT!
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#12 invinciblesuman
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I have been playing pc games for a long time now.. and i suppose the best games run fine on it.

Other games lying on the fringes might be "Games NOT for windows" and hence have problems.

I still think vista is more than ok

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#13 Zam
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[QUOTE="dnuggs40"]According to wiki eroges are erotic games...rofl. Yeah...great advice...avoid Vista because you can't play poorly developed pervert-ware haha.Krayzie_3334

Lmao! I just did a google search and brought me too the wiki page... TC if your into that stuff well.. I honestly don't know what to say.:?

And TC too your statement "Vista is crap for Gaming" I've had no problems with it that couldn't be fixed with a fast search all my games work Fine with Vista even my older Mid-Late 90s Games run fine on it.

I know it has nothing to do with this thread (which is lame anyways) but where is that gif in your sig from? lol

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#14 knight0151
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[QUOTE="Krayzie_3334"]

[QUOTE="dnuggs40"]According to wiki eroges are erotic games...rofl. Yeah...great advice...avoid Vista because you can't play poorly developed pervert-ware haha.Zam

Lmao! I just did a google search and brought me too the wiki page... TC if your into that stuff well.. I honestly don't know what to say.:?

And TC too your statement "Vista is crap for Gaming" I've had no problems with it that couldn't be fixed with a fast search all my games work Fine with Vista even my older Mid-Late 90s Games run fine on it.

I know it has nothing to do with this thread (which is lame anyways) but where is that gif in your sig from? lol

Chapelles show. OR something.

Google it, it's pretty funny.

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#15 Zam
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[QUOTE="Zam"]

[QUOTE="Krayzie_3334"]

Lmao! I just did a google search and brought me too the wiki page... TC if your into that stuff well.. I honestly don't know what to say.:?

And TC too your statement "Vista is crap for Gaming" I've had no problems with it that couldn't be fixed with a fast search all my games work Fine with Vista even my older Mid-Late 90s Games run fine on it.

knight0151

I know it has nothing to do with this thread (which is lame anyways) but where is that gif in your sig from? lol

Chapelles show. OR something.

Google it, it's pretty funny.

I know Dave Chappelle. I was talking about the gif in his sig not his avatar

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#16 bowlingotter
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[QUOTE="knight0151"]

[QUOTE="Zam"]

I know it has nothing to do with this thread (which is lame anyways) but where is that gif in your sig from? lol

Zam

Chapelles show. OR something.

Google it, it's pretty funny.

I know Dave Chappelle. I was talking about the gif in his sig not his avatar

Kung Pow. ridiculous movie

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#17 Villi
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1. Install Windows 7 RC (yes! it's free!) 2. Use XP compatibility mode 3. ???? 4. PROFIT!funked_up

Agree!!... got Win7 right now.. and it Rocks!!

Vista = Windows millenium
Win7 = Windows XP

;)

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#18 Krayzie_3334
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[QUOTE="Krayzie_3334"]

Zam

I know it has nothing to do with this thread (which is lame anyways) but where is that gif in your sig from? lol

Kung Pow.

Kung Pow. ridiculous movie

bowlingotter

Blasphemy!:P

But yea the movie isn't for everyone I however Love the movie, I like allot of Steve Oedekerk Movies and the Thumbmations.:lol:

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#19 bowlingotter
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[QUOTE="bowlingotter"]

Kung Pow. ridiculous movie

Krayzie_3334

Blasphemy!:P

But yea the movie isn't for everyone I however Love the movie, I like allot of Steve Oedekerk Movies and the Thumbmations.:lol:

Don't get me wrong, I think it's absolutely hilarious. But you can't deny that it's utterly ridiculous

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#20 Krayzie_3334
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[QUOTE="Krayzie_3334"]

bowlingotter

Don't get me wrong, I think it's absolutely hilarious. But you can't deny that it's utterly ridiculous

Yes that it is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqrtCLU6A54, Cracks me up everytime.:lol:

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#21 SaintJimmmy
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problems with vista and gaming? this has never happened before!
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#22 blade55555
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If you're interested in playing your typical shooters you'll probably be satisfied but if you like playing Japanese eroge you'll be missing XP big time. Out of about 8 games I've installed so far less than half can work on Vista. Avoid this OS

istuffedsunny

lol I can run games like AoC (age of conqeurors) actually I can run the whole age of empires series no problems. I can run the old Red alert 1 no problems. I can run starcraft without any problems... Perhaps your computers just scrap or something because I have never had any issues running games especially older ones.

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#23 dbd333
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I'm pretty sure if I went from Vista to XP I'd be gaining another 30 FPS on my games.

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#24 mthe1337one
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any dedicated pc gamer probably has a LOT of memory in their rigs anyway...vista should be fine. i personally wouldn't mind installing vista on my system for the sake of DX10 support, but unfortunately the only OS i legitimately own is xp heh

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#25 dnuggs40
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I'm pretty sure if I went from Vista to XP I'd be gaining another 30 FPS on my games.

dbd333
You would be wrong.
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#26 EvilClownHar
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Vista runs fine for me with my games.

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#27 bowlingotter
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I'm pretty sure if I went from Vista to XP I'd be gaining another 30 FPS on my games.

dbd333

If you have any more than 2 GB of RAM, nah

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#28 Byshop  Moderator
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If you're interested in playing your typical shooters you'll probably be satisfied but if you like playing Japanese eroge you'll be missing XP big time. Out of about 8 games I've installed so far less than half can work on Vista. Avoid this OS

istuffedsunny

A) It works fine.

B) It was 2009 when I went to sleep last night, did I wake up in 2006? This topic has been done to death on this and every other gaming forum on the Internet.

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#29 crazymonkey092
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[QUOTE="dbd333"]

I'm pretty sure if I went from Vista to XP I'd be gaining another 30 FPS on my games.

bowlingotter

If you have any more than 2 GB of RAM, nah

Actually, in Trackmania Nations Forever, i gained about 10-30FPS and a tinybit more in some areas when I went from Vista x64 to Windows XP. And I have 4gbs of ram, plus a laptop that was meant only for Vista x64 since it has no Official XP drivers. But I simply tried Vista for as long as I could, and while I wont say it sucks, its a pretty good, stable OS. But you wont see me using it for games. Im a High FPS person, I have to have all the frames i can get to enjoy a game. So while most ppl wont notice, or be bothered to lose frames. For me, its just not worth it, not even a 5fps lost is worth Vista.
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#30 chandu83
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I don't understand. Vista works fine for me with all my games and I have been playing games like Pharaoh and so on. Its a great OS.
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Actually, in Trackmania Nations Forever, i gained about 10-30FPS and a tinybit more in some areas when I went from Vista x64 to Windows XP. And I have 4gbs of ram, plus a laptop that was meant only for Vista x64 since it has no Official XP drivers. But I simply tried Vista for as long as I could, and while I wont say it sucks, its a pretty good, stable OS. But you wont see me using it for games. Im a High FPS person, I have to have all the frames i can get to enjoy a game. So while most ppl wont notice, or be bothered to lose frames. For me, its just not worth it, not even a 5fps lost is worth Vista.crazymonkey092

Being a laptop user, your results are far more likley the result of driver support between the two operating systems on your particular hardware configuration than a raw difference between the two OS's overhead.

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#32 NSR34GTR
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vista is fine
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#33 Zemus
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Oh man thats Funny lol.

But seriously. Vista is fine. Ive sorta been forced into it the last year cause of PC Problems and Vista handles the Hardware Failures better than XP does by a HUGE margin.

Vista runs all my games fine with no problems. Even old ones. I have found I have better control on OLDER games with Vistathan I did with Xp because you get so many more compadibility options.