Why is Vista doing this?...

[Ricemarine]

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This is what the Guild Wars demo looks like whenever I start up the game. If I quit, then my whole desktop is distorted, requiring me to restart teh computer so I can get a clean and working screen again. I don't know why this is happening. I've rolled back to the MS drivers, and I've used forceware 96.85 for them too... I am using windows vista build 5744 rc2...

Help?

 

[postmortemIA]

run game on XP.

 

[Ricemarine]

Originally posted by: postmortemIA
run game on XP.

I've tried running the compatibility mode under windows xp sp2.

 

[akshayt]

the compatibility mode is crap.

 

[Shawn]

RC2 is a buggy piece of crap. Either wait for RTM or use build 5728.

 

[tuteja1986]

Shawn no its not ... its the stupid Nvidia and Ati drive that are buggy as shite. Anyways here is small testing list : http://au.gamespot.com/features/6154735/index.html?q=Windows%20vista
Also if your running Guilds War on Nvidia card/ Vista nvidia drivers then you will get alot of crashes. from gamespot : "We started testing with the GeForce 7900 GTX but quickly switched over to the Radeon X1900 XT after all the crashing games revealed that Nvidia's Vista drivers weren't quite mature enough for live testing. Note that this isn't indicative of Nvidia's final Vista performance levels"

 

[postmortemIA]

No point of running pre-Vista games on Vista.

 

[Hyperlite]

Originally posted by: postmortemIA
No point of running pre-Vista games on pre-Vista.

fixed.


that is a pretty weird bug though

 

[Ricemarine]

Originally posted by: Hyperlite

Originally posted by: postmortemIA
No point of running pre-Vista games on pre-Vista.

fixed.


that is a pretty weird bug though

Hum... I wish a lot of games would render right...

 

[Aznguy1872]

Hrm, no idea. Never really seen a pb like that before.

 

[clickynext]

Proper video drivers should be out once the final version of vista is out. With so many constant changes being made to vista before it goes to RTM, I don't think most companies even bother to put out decent beta drivers.

RTM should be soon, though.

 

[kopema]

Originally posted by: postmortemIA
run game on XP.

Windows XP is a darned good program. So were Windows 3.0 and Windows 95. Windows 2000 was terrific for huge companies but a mess for even small companies, let alone the poor geeks who bought it for home use. Windows 98 was only an incremental improvement, and there was no real reason to get that until it ended up being supported more than 95 was.

Windows ME and Windows "Bob?" Not exactly stellar performers.

About half of the new versions of Windows have been significant advancements worth buying right away. Hype is a wonderful thing, but I really don't get all these people screaming "OmiGod I need Vista right now!" Why?