Will Vista Run Your Games?
As many of you know already I am not a fan of Windows Vista, in fact I am pretty close to hating it. That is, in it's current resource hogging form. I am praying that with the final release that the resource usage will be addressed to a more reasonable level. However, I am not holding my breath for that to happen.
The big question many of you have had wondered about is "Will Vista run my games?". The short answer is "yes, but". The "but" is important because a few games such as Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory won't currently run. While I will admit this is not a problem of Vista per se, but the StarForce drivers and those pesky hidden Ring 0 driver causes a compatibility problem with Vista that prevents games using StarForce from loading.
There are some obvious kinks to be worked out of Vista before Microsoft can attempt to pull off their self proclaimed gaming revolution for PC's. This is not taking into account gamers needing to buy a expensive boat load of new pc parts to get all of this to run reasonably smoothly...but don't get me started on that.
Read the full article at ExtremeTech: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1969005,00.asp
-Eric
As many of you know already I am not a fan of Windows Vista, in fact I am pretty close to hating it. That is, in it's current resource hogging form. I am praying that with the final release that the resource usage will be addressed to a more reasonable level. However, I am not holding my breath for that to happen.
The big question many of you have had wondered about is "Will Vista run my games?". The short answer is "yes, but". The "but" is important because a few games such as Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory won't currently run. While I will admit this is not a problem of Vista per se, but the StarForce drivers and those pesky hidden Ring 0 driver causes a compatibility problem with Vista that prevents games using StarForce from loading.
There are some obvious kinks to be worked out of Vista before Microsoft can attempt to pull off their self proclaimed gaming revolution for PC's. This is not taking into account gamers needing to buy a expensive boat load of new pc parts to get all of this to run reasonably smoothly...but don't get me started on that.
Read the full article at ExtremeTech: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1969005,00.asp
-Eric
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