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POLL: Windows Vista - Will You Upgrade?

Discussion in 'Techno-Magic' started by Chandos the Red, Jul 22, 2005.

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  1. Chandos the Red

    Chandos the Red This Wheel's on Fire

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    Remove all ads!
    Some us have not been able to get a few older games to run in XP: Myth: the Fallen Lords, M&M 7 and System Shock II are some examples of games that have given me problems in XP. It's true they are older games, but still great ones nevertheless.
     
    Chandos the Red, Aug 18, 2005
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  2. edorien Gems: 2/31
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    Greetings and

    Myth can be made to work. Visit
    http://projectmagma.net/index.shtml
    (Link to Fan-based group that brought rights to the games, + releasing patches from them, includes graphical upgrade to myth 2 graphics (requires myth 2)


    And I say stay with the oldest version until its no longer supported then upgrade to one thats been out for a couple of years.
     
    edorien, Aug 18, 2005
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  3. Chandos the Red

    Chandos the Red This Wheel's on Fire

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    Thanks for the info - and welcome to the boards, edorien.
     
    Chandos the Red, Aug 18, 2005
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  4. Ofelix

    Ofelix The world changes, we do not, what irony!

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    Well, I don't know I am perfectly happy with XP right now. All my games run well on it, Office is enough for me, Explorer do the job. Maybe if Vista doesn't cost Big big Bucks...
     
    Ofelix, Aug 18, 2005
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  5. Arabwel

    Arabwel Screaming towards Apotheosis Veteran

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    Until I actually get enough money to take the old girl to the store to get her upgraded... (I know I am being silly. But I screw up too easily...) I will be ruinning the same OS I have run the past 4+ years.

    ME.

    *is evil*
     
    Arabwel, Aug 19, 2005
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    The games I cannot get to work no matter what are M&M 7 (and 8 thought it says it works on XP grrrr) and Theme Park World
     
    Cúchulainn, Aug 19, 2005
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  7. Ziad

    Ziad I speak in rebuses Veteran

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    Ziad, Sep 12, 2005
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  8. Kitrax

    Kitrax Pantaloons are supposed to go where!?!?

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    :eek:

    That's insane! At lest 2GB of DDR3 RAM, and a high end video card with at lest 256MB of RAM for the OS to run "well"?!?
    That's :bs: if you ask me.

    This version of Windows might end up being a pile of trash...but we'll see. :rolling:
     
    Kitrax, Sep 16, 2005
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  9. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    You need to read the whole article. Those specs are for 64 bit environment, which most people won't be using anytime soon. At least not those lacking in the system specs department.
     
    Taluntain, Sep 16, 2005
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  10. Kitrax

    Kitrax Pantaloons are supposed to go where!?!?

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    Hmmm...NTFS is fine for me then. :rolling:
     
    Kitrax, Sep 17, 2005
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    I won't give more money for 64 CPU more ram better video ! this is another stupid crap that Billy and the CPU , ram , video makers have thought the last time they slept on the cold air stream ! :mad:
    Arabwel your OS is the best MS can offer ! and btw Linux Rule the GOOD WORLD ! MS RULE THE BAD WORLD !!!
    soon when all games run in linux i won't even spend one seconde in thinking will linux be better ? 'coz it is !!!
    It is sad that now all games don't run with linux :[ (or have to spend all day to nudge linux to run one game ... )
    MS IS A MONEY MASHINE !!! ANd i'm not a rich man to buy 3gb ram , Mainbord for thousand $$$ , last model video card and a CPU !!!
    :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
     
    Firag, Sep 20, 2005
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  12. Ziad

    Ziad I speak in rebuses Veteran

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    @Tal: Even the fanciest GUI running within a 64-bit environment doesn't justify the requirement for 256Megs of video memory, I think. In fact nothing I can dream of justifies this.

    Hm I can already see the 2nd "please wait windows is installing" screen on the Windows Vista installer:

    "Windows Just Got Better!"

    :lol:
     
    Ziad, Sep 22, 2005
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  13. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    I'm pretty sure it won't be a requirement, but it'll be used if you have it... that's the point.
     
    Taluntain, Sep 22, 2005
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    64-bit CPU's aren't that expensive. Bought one only a week ago, in fact, and as soon as it gains a bit firmer hold of the markets I will upgrade to WinXP 64 and some Linux. Vista isn't that interesting and, besides; Ubuntu Linux has scored really well in recent tests, is free, and doesn't have that big system requirments.

    It's just a pity that it didn't install correctly onto my machine when I tried a few days ago... Back to the drawing-board. :(
     
    Wordplay, Sep 23, 2005
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