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Vista 32bit - Runs everything?
Oddjob187
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Yar mateys.
I just bought a brand spank'in new PC and the copy of Vista I got with it is accidentally the 32bit version instead of the 64bit.*
So now I am wondering if I just use the 32bit version will it run all the older games that are not getting updates to run on 62bit OS?
Danke
*- I was so giddy while I was watching it being put together for free by the guys at the store while we chatted that I didn't notice the case thrown into my box of goodies was 32bit.
I just bought a brand spank'in new PC and the copy of Vista I got with it is accidentally the 32bit version instead of the 64bit.*
So now I am wondering if I just use the 32bit version will it run all the older games that are not getting updates to run on 62bit OS?
Danke
*- I was so giddy while I was watching it being put together for free by the guys at the store while we chatted that I didn't notice the case thrown into my box of goodies was 32bit.
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As for 32bit VS 64bit I'd go with 32bit. No games really take advantage of 64bit and drivers and support are slower to get to the 64bit side of things still.
At least on the flip side the UI is really nice and easy on the eyes and its got some neat features. Its just got crappy support atm more so for games. (BTW games purchased via steam still do not show up in the games explorer) Drivers are getting better I think but its still not XP stability. Hopefully the rumored Vista SP1 this fall will change things.
Well I don't download games on this steam contraption, and anything I play is fairly new (Company of Heroes, Warhammer Online, Sup Com), so maybe using Vista will work after all.
Me thinks I will install this 32bit vista and see how it goes, and downgrade back to Xp if needed.
Not sure about Warhammer Online but the other 2 games ran ok in Vista for me.
I did run into a problem with Supreme Commander + Xfire + Vista though. It seems in game chat (at least it was like this a month ago) doesn't work with sup com while your on Vista.
Most of them will work, some have problems. I've known people to run, say Battlefield 2 better on Vista than on their XP rigs, while others have had problems.
Treat it like the move from 98 to XP. Hope for the best but expect hiccups. Also, getting 32-bit Vista instead of 64 is good. It's not as pain free as we'd hope it to be, so you'd spend too much time sorting things than using it.
Time to go stare into the 22" wide screen monitor in all its glory.
I'm the same as you, I have split my 120GB drive between XP and Vista, and am dual-booting. I haven't loaded up Vista in months. There's nothing it can do yet that XP can't.
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Oh, and for people having Punkbuster issues with certain games under Vista, I found that manually updating with PBSetup generally does the trick. The homepage kind of buries this for some retarded reason. Unfortunately with this you need to manually update for every PB client update, but so far I have only ran into this problem with Quake 3...which doesn't exactly get a ton of updates anymore.
Edit: Oh, and this may have changed, but last I heard there weren't a ton of reasons to run 64-bit Vista at the moment. Unless you have specific programs in mind that have 64-bit executables, I'd stick with 32-bit.
And yeah, I doubt you'll run into many compatibility problems with Vista, I have everything from Monkey Island to CS 1.6 to CoH working.. hell, I can't really think of a single game I haven't been able to play.
Truth. I can no longer live without the Vista start menu.
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Except in linux. I hate using XP now.
Seriously though, I really like vista.
i just reinstalled vista today (on a sidenote, wtf is up with the built in vista back up/restore? i've added a new hdd since i made the image 500 gigs, the original was 320, and since there was an additional hdd it wouldn't restore the image to the 320 gig until i unplugged the 500? fuck you vista) but anyway the vista start menu is one thing i hate about it, i just can't stand it. Its overall just much more bloated than the xp menu until you whittle it down..and the chances that the search function has indexed what i'm looking for by default is always pretty much nil
What's the difference between Vista Home Basic and Home Premium, and is it worth the $30 between the two?
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http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/1033/ordermedia/default.mspx
It was no accident you got the 32-bit version, Oddjob. All retail versions of Vista except Ultimate only have the 32-bit disk in the package. I have no idea why they did it that way, but that's just the way it is. But really, unless you want 4 gigs of ram there's not much reason to order it.
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How is alt-tab different in Vista?
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(don't mind the messy desktop!!)
Hovering the mouse over a taskbar item also brings up that window's thumbnail. Very useful!
edit: nm.. my features are disabled thanks to WGA server crash. Yay for WGA!
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I just can't pass WGA. and If I can't pass WGA that means I get constant pop-ups reminding me that my copy might be pirated.
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Back on topic: if you can find stable drivers for your hardware, then Vista should be mostly compatible with your software.
They did when I first installed Vista on an old 80 gig HDD.
Since that drive died last weekend, I had to order a new HDD and install Vista on that, and now they're not showing up. They might show up in time though. The same thing happened with my original Vista install. Steam games just eventually appeared in the games explorer.
Another excellent thread in penny arcade.
The 64-bit drivers are actually supposed to be better, IIRC, than the 32-bit ones because they have stricter standards, but I don't know how good the current 64-bit drivers are since I'm using 32-bit vista for my printer.
Vista really is like the difference between ME and XP. I haven't ever actually had it blue screen on me, even when I was using the early betas, which is really amazing. And almost all of the blue screen problems I read about are due to actual hardware problems.
It has all of my Steam games in it , though.
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That's being "fixed" in Dx10.1.
Wait, did you just say that because one of Microsofts servers on the internet went down, your local copy of Windows disabled certain features?
My god, I'm so glad I buy games for consoles instead and use a Mac for everything else.
it doesn't phone home. I was updating my directx.
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hold on.. I thought all that need was drivers being reworked. I know creative labs already released a beta version of something for getting all those neat sound things back.
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