New OS from Microsoft....

Taronn Anvilmarr · 11-16-2006, 10:27 AM

A thought just occured to me and it caused me to wonder. I know just enough to be dangerous so that makes me question everything lol.

Microsoft will be coming out with a new OS soon called "Vista". It has been on the edge of my radar - i know about it but not thinking too much about it. Every OS that appears has different (usually better) specifications and all software usually works on it, except if the software has gained ancient status lol (usually 3 to 5 years in age).

Question one: Ok, that being said, will Vista cause any problems, issues, glitches, bugs, etc... for Vanguard??

I am just sitting here hoping that maybe someone made a phone call to microsoft and asked that question...

Question two: Have they been testing dual core processors and how they affect the game and gameplay??

I have noticed that eq2 does not work well with dual core and i have to manually choose which processor it works on - kinda hoping they fix that with vanguard. Not to make me remove a processor but make it work with both. I hope that is not a too new technology that no one knows how to adjust for.

lol just bought a 24" monitor and 2 more gigs of Ram!! I now am ready for Vanguard!!! lol gamebox please.....

If i am just forgetting some thread reply somewhere just point me in the right direction please.

Nil · 11-16-2006, 11:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Taronn Anvilmarr

Question one: Ok, that being said, will Vista cause any problems, issues, glitches, bugs, etc... for Vanguard??

Sigil is developing it on both Vista and XP machines (as MS was their publisher, and MS wanted Vista games, they got test stuff before many other houses). You shouldn't run into any special problems with Vanguard (though, depending on your system, you might see degraded performance with Vista over XP).

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Originally Posted by Taronn Anvilmarr

Question two: Have they been testing dual core processors and how they affect the game and gameplay??

Supposedly they're working with Dual Core systems as well, but the code is not (yet, anyway) optimized to work well with multi-cores. I'd bet that at the beginning, we'll only see some things like sound off-loaded to the 2nd core (similar to the dual-core options that Oblivion had).

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Originally Posted by Taronn Anvilmarr

lol just bought a 24" monitor and 2 more gigs of Ram!! I now am ready for Vanguard!!! lol gamebox please.....

What's the native res on that beast and what card are you powering it with?

Taronn Anvilmarr · 11-16-2006, 04:57 PM

lol i am so excited i cant wait till next week lol - here it is (i love gateway)

Gateway FPD2485W 24" Widescreen High-Definition LCD Flat-Panel Display

1920x1200 resolution
1000:1 contrast ratio
6ms response time
Picture-in-picture

I already have a nvidia 7800 GS - not bad kinda in the middle i suppose

I also got the bottom speaker bar - should scare my dog!! lol hope not - she is a sweetie.

Pirotess · 11-20-2006, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Taronn Anvilmarr

Question one: Ok, that being said, will Vista cause any problems, issues, glitches, bugs, etc... for Vanguard??

By the time Vanguard releases probably not. I just installed the release version of Vista Ultimate on my machines at home this weekend and can say that while the UI is very slick, driver support is still quite scarce. All my devices have drivers but some are still beta drivers which I expect will get fixed in the next two weeks before official release. The biggest problem I noticed was alot of flickering in games. I have a lead however that it might be my machines dual cores causing some of that so I'll be switching WoW to a single core affinity tonight to test out that theory.

The flickering wasnt so bad as to make things unplayable but it was annoying getting a flicker or texture scramble every 20-30 seconds.

Taronn Anvilmarr · 11-20-2006, 11:00 AM

i just think microsoft needs to get involved and fix the dual-core issues - them or intel - preferably both.

Pirotess · 11-20-2006, 11:01 AM

AMD too since those are the procs I run with.

Taronn Anvilmarr · 11-20-2006, 11:41 AM

agreed

a trifecta - Microsoft / Intel / AMD = at gunpoint around the table, the gunman says "FIX THIS!!!!"

should take 2 days - half a day to fix, the remainder to argue who gets to tell the world and how much to charge.

Snowman · 02-07-2007, 08:58 AM

Well a friend of mine with Vista says that VG complains about missing dx9 dll files!

he's had to get these files from somewhere but keeps getting booted from the game..

He's reformatting and putting xp back on

Roo · 02-07-2007, 09:52 AM

A few people have tried VG with Vista, and most have it working without a problem. You do get degraded performance, however, due to current video drivers.

Better to wait for a while.

Cataleya · 02-07-2007, 01:02 PM

I have a Vista system with DX10. Vanguard complains that DX9 is missing so havent tried playing. I can imagine other problems if I could get past that.
Seriously considering installing XP on it. Actually I have some old DOS installation diskettes - now that was a stable platform. Reckon it'll work?