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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
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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)
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Don't expect me to buy Vista to debug this. ;)
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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.
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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....
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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....
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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.
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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! ;)
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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....
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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
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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. .. )
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what's the flag?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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

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