New guy with Vista 32 (oh noes!)

egotronic

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Hiya. So anyway, I have a trusty but ancient gaming rig which up until now has never...let me repeat that...NEVER...let me down. It can play the latest games..you name it. Seeing I was planning on upgrading this summer and this just went to Gamma...smartest choice would be to wait, right? Yeah...nah. I jumped in... Once installed and first time starting up I had everything crossed...I couldn't even look at the screen I was expecting the "dong" and "runtime error". But no...loaded up pretty well. Ok first hurdle successfully overcome. So now I was expecting ridiculous slow down once in the game itself..also because I only have a dual threaded processor and the minimum for this is quad.

BUT NO...WOW. :eek: This game plays like a dream..smooth as silk. Never slows down even in dogfights..you name it. I can do everything and anything. The only slight slowdown I had was last night after a 4 hour stint in a really busy station with all sorts going on. The guys are genius at programming..they have created a masterpiece of software which will work with anything. Amazing.

So yeah if you're worried about making the leap and cannot wait like me, these are my specs:

AMD 7750 Dual-Core processor 2.70ghz
RAM: 4GB
Vista 32 Bit
AMD Radeon HD6850

BTW: could not find any information online whether it would work with Vista 32bit so made this for others who might be worried about it not working...
 

Morbad

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There is no technical reason for the game to not work on 32-bit Vista. Even Vista (NT 6.0) is the same major internal revision as Windows 8.1 (NT 6.3), and 99.9% of what the latter can execute, Vista can execute (assuming it's got 32-bit executables in this case).

That said GHDW is probably correct. It's not officially supported and you won't get official help if you do run into issues.
 

Lestat

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Well I been playing this game from Alpah on a Laptop with a i7 720qm 1.6 ghz. My nephew been playing this game on a i3 530 3.06 ghz dual core.

Note on computer they both been upgraded to a i7 920

Both windows 7.
 
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BIGPUNGED2000

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it does run on vista when it want to alot of error but even so its not made for vista i did run it couple of time but i update to windows 7 do to alot of error and still having major issue with all the bug
 

Ceekay

Ceekay
I've ran ED (thanks Dave!) on the Win 10 trial/test release I have on an old Athlon 630, GTS 250 and 4 GB ram machine it runs fine at 720 (30 - 40 FPS) so it might we worth having a go with a much more efficient OS that's currently free for several months.
 

egotronic

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Well it's running perfectly fine on my machine thus far...fingers crossed! I have a laptop running Win 7 (which can no way handle this game with it's pseudo-GPU/mobo set up) and to be honest, for gaming I prefer Vista anyway since it has less crud to uninstall/steal valuable RAM or CPU. Win 7 was made for social networking rubbish and aps/cloud integration blah blah touch screen smudgey fingers on sticky screen etc. as all the new OS's are. Vista is more barebones...which I prefer for a gaming rig. But next machine I am building will be a Win 7 machine since Win 8 is just a smart-phone OS and pointless for gaming. Win 10 will be too new...
 
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egotronic

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Sorry but I don't think your OS is the problem. It's more likely to be a software conflict or outdates drivers i.e. your system is not optimised... This game runs perfectly fine on Vista as does any new game out there. I am proof of that... Viva la Vista! :D
 

egotronic

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zynaps said:
Vista and 32bit, it's bad and worse combined!
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But you can't explain why...? hmmmm I have no idea what people have against Vista apart from the fact it's fashionable to bash it because of something they read once a long time ago. It plays Crysis easily without any problems. It plays the latest games without problems. Mass Effect 3 completed withoug any probs/bugs/crashes/latency/conflicts. It will play Dragon Age:Inquisition without any probs...

It is stable, never crashes, fast not a resource hog like the latest rubbish OS which are biased towards social networking/aps/cloud what has that to do with gaming???? Ever wondered why the minimum specs for Win 8 is 4 gigs and need at least 8 for decent speeds? Yep...all the useless crud it was designed for.
 
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egotronic

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Call me mad: but after using Win 7 and Win 8 I much prefer Vista for a gaming machine. Pity it's not supported anymore to be honest... Win 8 is an abomination and even though it's pretty with all the aps and touch screen/cloud integration, for gaming it's absolutely horrible and a huge resource hog. And I'm a gamer with over 65 games in my Steam account...all run perfectly with my Vista gaming machine.

edit: oh ok, tell a lie the only game I had a problem with is Space Engineers which is a small indy space game only available on Steam. The company who makes it is about a 3 person company...tiny with tuny budget. It needs 64bit to run online but weirdly runs perfectly on 32 bit offline. I put that down to rubbish programing TBH..the proof is in this game which is also a space sim game and runs perfect. ;)
 
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I am running vista 64 on my home PC (gen 1 quad core) but with a good graphics card I run at high settings quite happily. My "work" pc is a dual core running win7 64 with an older graphics card and it runs quite happily at medium settings. I will be upgrading this spring, but till then I am happilly zooming around in my space truck keeping workers happy, and buying myself pointless stuff I will never use, like guns :)
 

egotronic

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bigshep said:
I am running vista 64 on my home PC (gen 1 quad core) but with a good graphics card I run at high settings quite happily. My "work" pc is a dual core running win7 64 with an older graphics card and it runs quite happily at medium settings. I will be upgrading this spring, but till then I am happilly zooming around in my space truck keeping workers happy, and buying myself pointless stuff I will never use, like guns :)
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Nice...! I salute you fellow Vista suffererrrr...errr...I mean friend. :D Seriously...I think Microsoft should think about making Vista 2015 for those who want a simple and uncluttered barebones system ;)
 
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