Supreme Cmdr Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 Well, time to start reading up on Vista. I've been playing around with it (I have an MSDN sub) for some time now and all I have to say is that the leap from XP is like going from WIN98 to WINXP. I suspect that when released, PC games will only support WINXP and Vista. Not surprising. Is anything actually still running WIN98? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grayfox Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 heh i still run 98 for my older games. i dont think any of the newer ones support 98... at least CoD2 and BF2 dont. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Remo Williams Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 Same here I have a dual boot drive with 98 for the classics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weegee_101 Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 quote:Originally posted by JUDGExKTF: Back on the vista subject; I really hope WinFS gets included. Does anybody know if they fixed the fragmentation issue which NTFS has with winFS ? If we're lucky they'll include it as a Service Pack, but at this time its pretty certain thats not going to be happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeepFreeze Posted February 13, 2006 Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 I don't know. From what I've read about Vista, it just sounds like WinXP with some neato skins. Am I missing something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Cmdr Posted February 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 quote:Originally posted by DeepFreeze: I don't know. From what I've read about Vista, it just sounds like WinXP with some neato skins. Am I missing something? Yes, you're missing a lot. Better go back and actually read the plethora of resources out there about Vista because you're not even close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Cmdr Posted February 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 Why do I need Windows Vista? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyequeue Posted February 25, 2006 Report Share Posted February 25, 2006 Looks pretty cool. Will probably need another pc upgrade to run it though LOL. I like the transparency of the UI. Pretty cool looking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Cmdr Posted February 27, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2006 Microsoft unveils Vista versions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Cmdr Posted April 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 He's right though. I have the Vista CTP and its a mess. Vista is to WinXP what WinME was to Win98: a disaster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolferz Posted April 22, 2006 Report Share Posted April 22, 2006 Wouldn't they be better served if they stopped trying to reinvent the wheel? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weegee_101 Posted April 23, 2006 Report Share Posted April 23, 2006 quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: He's right though. I have the Vista CTP and its a mess. Vista is to WinXP what WinME was to Win98: a disaster. Yeah, its so true. I've been having to play with it at work lately, and I'm not impressed at all. However, it is still a pre-release; it still feels a little early to judge it. Plus I don't know if I'm exactly the one who should be judging it... I'm still convinced that a good UNIX is lightyears better than Vista, for both Workstation and Server applications. Concerning backwards compatibility, and I know I'm going to get booed for this, but I think Microsoft should learn a good lesson from Apple. Rather than worry so much about backwards compatibility, just rewrite the entire code, not worrying about backwards compatibility. They keep talking about doing "rewrites" yet the same old problems remain. Apple released OS X and told the OS classic guys to piss off. They gave you tools to basically have a copy of OS classic installed if you really needed legacy apps but with each version of OS X they've just sort of pulled people away from that. Heck, a lot of UNIX stuff is like that. I know of a few Solaris apps that won't run on 9 but will run on 6 just fine. Microsoft needs to stop worrying about "loosing customers" or "being the bad guys" and just say piss off to the people who whine. Even gamers get over it... its not like we haven't gone through it before with Windows 98 to Windows XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Cmdr Posted June 6, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 Will Vista Run Your Games? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalshion Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 Hmmmmmm Interesting article, wish they had run more tests though to see if any 'other' populer game would work... like.. say... EQ2? which is still vastly popular... But this still doesn't convince me to dish out hundreds of dollers to upgrade my OS when I don't even know if four games in particuler will work (X3 - Reunion, 3000AD's line of games, and two others) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest $iLk Posted June 8, 2006 Report Share Posted June 8, 2006 Read today on Slashdot that DirectX 10 and above will be Vista only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Cmdr Posted June 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2006 That has been the case for a while now. Anyway, the Beta 2 customer preview is out for those brave enough to try it and smart enough to install it in a multi-book environment. Vista - to me - is rubbish. It'll never get off the ground and winXP will remain the de facto OS for gaming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eclipse Posted June 8, 2006 Report Share Posted June 8, 2006 quote:Vista - to me - is rubbish. It'll never get off the ground and winXP will remain the de facto OS for gaming.Why do you predict that, SC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Cmdr Posted June 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2006 Lemme see....because as a dev I've been in on it since the first Alpha version and I'm - thus far - not impressed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalshion Posted June 8, 2006 Report Share Posted June 8, 2006 SC has a point Egosoft's developers already stated they weren't going to change over to Vista either, weather thats true or not I don't know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Cmdr Posted June 17, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2006 Windows Vista's OEM hardware requirements give glimpse of new hardware adaptation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Prezioso Posted June 18, 2006 Report Share Posted June 18, 2006 Curious coincidence that Gates has announced he's stepping down 6-8 months before Vista's release... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolferz Posted August 15, 2006 Report Share Posted August 15, 2006 quote:Originally posted by Prez: Curious coincidence that Gates has announced he's stepping down 6-8 months before Vista's release... Kind of like a rat leaving a sinking ship? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andergum Posted August 16, 2006 Report Share Posted August 16, 2006 I installed Vista Beta 2 and I'm not impressed at all. Drivers will be a huge issue. No working drivers for my printer, scanner, Razer mouse, Audigy sound card barely works, video drivers barely work. pffft.. this looks even worse than WinME Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Cmdr Posted August 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2006 Yep. Like I said, Vista is nothing but a sham and at this point is not unlike what winME was to win98. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkling Posted August 17, 2006 Report Share Posted August 17, 2006 Lately, my customers have been expressing interest in Linux Servers AND desktops (before it was only servers) so I think with Vista not going anywhere FAST, we're going to see much more of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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