https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/04/if-you-play-games-with-your-co/ Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:36:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/04/if-you-play-games-with-your-co/#comment-3502 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:36:46 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/02/04/if-you-play-games-with-your-co/#comment-3502 Les: Or, everyone can just switch to Linux or Mac now and end the pain.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/04/if-you-play-games-with-your-co/#comment-3501 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:28:42 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/02/04/if-you-play-games-with-your-co/#comment-3501 I’ve been gaming under Vista for quite awhile now with little to no real problems. Yes my frame rates in FPS titles is a little lower, but the biggest issue for me tends to be with RAM more so than with incompatibilities with Vista. Of the four example titles in the linked to article I only own Civ 4 and I’ve had no problems with the game running on my system after applying the latest patch.I’m not about to suggest that Vista is the ultimate gaming OS, but it seems to me that everyone has forgotten that we went through this same adjustment period after the launch of Windows XP and everyone sat around and bitched about how no one should upgrade to XP because it wouldn’t run any of their games. Of course “any of their games” was more like “a handful of games, some of which are so old that you wonder why anyone would still be playing them.” I mean, com’on, he’s complaining that Blackthorne won’t run under Vista? Technically, as he points out in his article, it won’t run under XP either without a wrapper.The simple truth is that Vista is the next OS and it will, like XP before it, eventually be just fine once most folks have upgraded their hardware and software to stuff that’s designed to run Vista at its best. XP was slower than Windows 98 and used up way more resources and had driver problems and choked on a number of games when it was released as well. What was true then is true now.And you can bet that when Windows 7 is released in 2012 (assuming Microsoft actually releases it on time) that we’ll go through this same process all over again complete with the same level of griping.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/04/if-you-play-games-with-your-co/#comment-3500 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:22:46 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/02/04/if-you-play-games-with-your-co/#comment-3500 No Civ?! But it doesn’t seem to work with Linux either. That sucks.

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