Available: Microsoft Fix for memory addressing on games and Vista x86/x64

[Ghostrider]

Originally Posted by [R-DEV]eggman

audio drivers don't support the full features of my 200$ card.

video drivers give me about 65% of the frame rates versus XP (althou NVidia has released new drivers that I have not tried)

RAM usage is appalling.. with 2GB under XP my machine can get annoyingly slow (lots of HD access when running a bunch of mod dev tools concurrently). Under Vista it was unbearable and I need to toss in another 2GB of RAM (4 total) to get performance like I have with XP is the conclusion I have drawn.

I had more BSODs in the 10 days or so I ran Vista than I have had with XP on the same machine in months.

Not really complaining... I have it on a dual boot partition simply because I knew it would be shite, but I did expect that it would be more solid and have broader driver support than I experienced.

Am waiting on a service pack and better drivers before I give it another go.

Install Unix/Linux and see the light
Your parents might even see it too

@ Microsoft's Q&A: I have a hard time buying their statement that Vista was made "with games in mind". The ONLY thing they provided was a directory(?). There is no performance-related feature to make games more playable. In fact, it acts the other way around. Also, anyone with knowledge about Microsoft's campaigns in the past, knows that they've been deceiving and just plain bs. Just look at the API Wars between Direct3D and OpenGL, or their "Get the facts" campaign where they say that Windows is more secure than Unix/Linux and many other things..

Ok ok...I'll stop now.

-Ghost

[Hotrod525]

there praticly no game compatible whit Linux Unix

[Ghostrider]

Originally Posted by Hotrod525

there praticly no game compatible whit Linux Unix

There's Cedega and there's Wine among, possibly, others. I do have windows, but only for 2 reasons:

1. I'm a developer, so I need to write programs for Windows users (although Im loking at writing cross-platform code);
2. Games


There's no other reason for me to keep Windows installed. Everything else, done in the other side



-Ghost

[Erasius]

someone said that he updated his intel chipset drivers and now it works perfectly.
can someone please tell me what drivers?
because when i go to the download section you have all sorts of drivers... i'm not really good at computer... things :P

so please tell me what part of the download section i need, and also what is the name of the driver?

[EyesOnly]

intel.com ?
Download - chipset - desktop chipsets - *select ANY chipset, default driver supports all intel chipsets*

[[R-DEV]Cheeseman]

I've installed the hotfixes and I'm going to test them out now. I'll inform you guys if it does improve gaming with Vista or not.

Edit: The hotfix made things even worse than before. Don't know if maybe it didn't install properly, but now I'm getting these horrible stuttering spikes sometimes and the sounds around me go all crazy for no reason.

[Erasius]

what do you mean with default chipset?
i have to select a chipset... how do i know which one i need?
got a intel E6700 2,67ghz... or :S
* im not a computer wiz , so what the hell do i need to download :P

[[R-DEV]Cheeseman]

Anybody know how I can get rid of the hotfix? It's made things horrible.

[El_Vikingo]

Reinstall?

[[R-DEV]Cheeseman]

Originally Posted by El_Vikingo

Reinstall?

Windows Vista?