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Gaming on Vista Beta 2

Slower. Maybe 1/2 speed (compared to xp). This is using an x1900xtx, so it might be different with nvidia's drivers rather than ati's. OpenGL runs like *crap,* but I'm going to wait until the public beta is out to start a general thread with q&a in hopes of finding an answer to that, as not many devs game.
 
Originally posted by: remagavon
Slower. Maybe 1/2 speed (compared to xp). This is using an x1900xtx, so it might be different with nvidia's drivers rather than ati's. OpenGL runs like *crap,* but I'm going to wait until the public beta is out to start a general thread with q&a in hopes of finding an answer to that, as not many devs game.
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I've done some quick testing, Nvidia's drivers aren't much better. I can't even enable anti-aliasing in their not-feature-complete Vista control panel.
 
Originally posted by: gizbug
That bad for nvidia people?
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It's a beta operating system with a new driver model(WDDM), what did you expect? 😛
 
Hmm, I was gonna download Vista beta just for Media Center, but I dont think all sacrifice half my gaming speed for that. Prob just "acquire" Windows MCE
 
Originally posted by: Gautama
Hmm, I was gonna download Vista beta just for Media Center, but I dont think all sacrifice half my gaming speed for that. Prob just "acquire" Windows MCE
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"Acquiring" software is "frowned" upon here. No warez discussion, please.
 
Originally posted by: Seeruk
To be honest I have only had time to test one game, Eve Online

It doesnt work 😛
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1) Add an entry to the registry at HKCU/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Explorer/Shell Folders called "Fonts" with the entry "C:/Windows/Fonts"
2) Ignore the error at Eve's startup that says your DirectX is out of date.
 
Hmmm I gave it a shot, and it got further in that the login screen loaded up, seemed to sit there for a few minutes after entering login details without doing anything so I quit and forgot to try again after a reboot 🙂

Will be trying again tonight though
 
Originally posted by: Nocturnal
Originally posted by: Gautama
Hmm, I was gonna download Vista beta just for Media Center, but I dont think all sacrifice half my gaming speed for that. Prob just "acquire" Windows MCE
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"Acquiring" software is "frowned" upon here. No warez discussion, please.
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What if some of us are MSDN Subscribers? 😎
 
I am installing Vista B2x64 from my MSDN account as we speak. I will let you know what games look like on it.
 
Originally posted by: Gautama
Go on...
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Sorry, havent tried again on Vista yet... was having too much fun fleecing a guy selling him vast quantities of isogen for 150isk a unit 🙂

I PROMISE to try again tonight 🙂
 
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