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Windows Vista

Posted: 26 Jan 2007, 23:22
by ioamnesia
Just a heads up, it appears that Windows Vista causes the game to run UNGODLY slow. Unplayable. I'm running the real Vista release, Business Edition

Re: Windows Vista

Posted: 26 Jan 2007, 23:58
by Kamaze
Isn't vista currently lacking hardware accelerated OpenGL?
And did you run in fullscreen or windowed mode?

(The last one shouldn't work if aero is enabled, or aero should shutdown if you start warzone)

Re: Windows Vista

Posted: 27 Jan 2007, 02:31
by DevUrandom
Don't expect me to buy Vista to debug this. ;)

Re: Windows Vista

Posted: 27 Jan 2007, 06:03
by lav_coyote25
i asked a friends brother to check it out on his machine - vista ultimate bata release - home built machine - high end

unable to start the game on the day it was installed - he said he would try again later - still waiting for him to reply.

Re: Windows Vista

Posted: 27 Jan 2007, 18:20
by rush2049
I have a cd copy of vista beta 2, but I really don't wanna go through installing and uninstalling again...  it is the most anti format OS I have ever seen.. or at least it doesn't wanna give itself up to xp....

Re: Windows Vista

Posted: 27 Jan 2007, 20:55
by kage
rush2049 wrote: I have a cd copy of vista beta 2, but I really don't wanna go through installing and uninstalling again...  it is the most anti format OS I have ever seen.. or at least it doesn't wanna give itself up to xp....
didn't you know? poisonous spiders often survive the initial few minutes by eating their siblings.

yeah, accelerated opengl has been repeatedly noted to be intentionally out of vista, though i've heard many rumors that ms gave in to outside pressure and will provide accelerated opengl prior to official release. beyond that, kamaze is correct about aero: since aero supposedly uses dx10 natively, and based on the way dx10 handles contexts, there's no way to run accel gl (even if you had it) and aero at the same time.

Re: Windows Vista

Posted: 29 Jan 2007, 08:47
by Veggivore
I have beta tested Vista for my 100+ pc organization and am still trying to show them that Gnome would be about as easy to retrain and implement as Vista.

*Sigh* Why does Linux/OpenSource make people run for the hills? I have patched, virus scanned, disinfected, tried to secure and reinstalled countless XP/2000 workstations. You would think that would make people want to run from Microsoft.

Back on subject... I would imagine that OpenGL is not an area MS is interested in since it is a component of portable software. Runs fine under Compiz/Beryl  though! ;)

Re: Windows Vista

Posted: 30 Jan 2007, 00:54
by ioamnesia
I was running full screen... you're probably right about the open gl. Either we rewrite all the graphics code or get Virtual PC and run it in there....

Re: Windows Vista

Posted: 01 Feb 2007, 19:01
by warzone666
look i don`t think wz will run in windows vista :(

windows vista is new and it does not have the configuration for running games perfectly...


i have a buddy that tried to run unreal tournament in vista and the game crashed 

the machine reebot...

and when it lit up  unreal tournament did`n wanted to run again... because of a menssage..

`windows vista does not suppourt the currently program` :P

Re: Windows Vista

Posted: 05 Feb 2007, 00:05
by kipman725
vista although touted by ms as the be all and end all of gaming OS's has very bad compatibility with current windows games.  The original warzone had a software mode, could this be used in vista? (I know it looks bad but hey they are using vista. .. )

Re: Windows Vista

Posted: 07 Feb 2007, 19:27
by ioamnesia
what's the flag?

Re: Windows Vista

Posted: 08 Feb 2007, 14:34
by Giel
kipman725 wrote: vista although touted by ms as the be all and end all of gaming OS's has very bad compatibility with current windows games.  The original warzone had a software mode, could this be used in vista? (I know it looks bad but hey they are using vista. .. )
I'm not a 100% sure about this but I think software rendering can't be done.
ioamnesia wrote: what's the flag?
what flag? flag for what?

The only flag I know of is the F-register on the Z80 CPU series. But then again I suppose you don't mean that one.

Re: Windows Vista

Posted: 08 Feb 2007, 14:57
by cybersphinx
Giel wrote:I'm not a 100% sure about this but I think software rendering can't be done.
Yep, the software renderer was removed since some change broke it and nobody stepped up to maintain it.

Re: Windows Vista

Posted: 04 Mar 2007, 20:36
by Leatherwolf
I read this and thought what the hell. I installed the original game from cd (patched to 1.10)and the 2.0.5 version on my Vista machine. So far the both run fine. The only problem was getting the 2.0.5 to run how I wanted it. Just ended up editing the config file.

Re: Windows Vista

Posted: 05 Mar 2007, 07:38
by RayfenWindspear
Leatherwolf, you say you got it to run fine on your Vista machine? What vid card do you have? From what I've figured the only real incompatability problems have to do with certain vid cards... oh and who can forget the user end errors  :P

Vista = 9 Different overpriced products...
Mac OSX= 1 Damn good one