dokool wrote:Scintilla wrote:How is Vista with computer games? I don't mean just the games of the Win32 era; I also want to know how it handles things like the Windows Entertainment Packs and DOS games.
I still hold that some of the games made in the 386 era were some of the best computer games ever.
I've heard that Vista has problems with recent stuff, so I wouldn't trust it too much with the older games.
Games I've run on vista with no problems (so far):
Need for Speed: Most Wanted, and Carbon
Fear
Fear Extraction Point
Quake 4
Rome: Total War
Dawn of War
Dawn of War Dark Crusade
Prince of Persia: Warrior Within
Rise of Legends
Company of Heroes <-- kick ass game. Get it!)
Star Wars 3 (the legos thing)
The sims
Sim City 4 < -- I did experience some strange screen flickering with this one
Medal of Honor
Medal of Honor Pacific Assault
Serious Sam
PainKiller
PainKiller2 Battle out of Hell
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Programs I've used:
Photoshop
Indesign
Lightwave
Premiere
Manga Studio 3.0
Office 2000 (it's pretty old, but hey... it still works)
Terragen .9
Terragen 2 tech preview
cccp app
virtualdub
avisynth
dvd decryptor
Problems I've found thus far:
Quicktime doesn't like the Aero gel style color scheme and it forces the system to downgrade the visuals when you run it.
Creative only has a 'beta' driver for the Adugy2 zs thx card.
When I switch off of the box using a KVM switch long enough for the machine to go into a sleep mode, the damm thing won't recognize the wakeup forcing me to restart.
Windows Defender defaults are really really annoying, as the version I have doesn't have a "do this everytime for this program" button when you click accept to let some things run.
The network interface for setting up multiple NIC cards, and IP addresses is kind of a pain, in that it's new for me.
The description for 'public' and 'private' network seems backwards to me for some reason. (maybe it's just me)
The whole *media center* thing is kind of a waste for me.
Stuff I haven't done yet:
I haven't really experimented with any DRM content, or High Def content yet (other than downloaded battlestar galactica episodes which play fine)