Halo 2

[dayaccus007]

I don't want to buy vista because I can get it for free.

[Larry Laffer]

Still, WHY you'd want Vista is still the main question here!

[Pancake]

Stick to Windows 2000

Or Linux

Or at least XP. But not Vista, at least until computer are a lot more powerful and Vista is greatly improved.

[Larry Laffer]

(...)and Vista is greatly improved.

That, my friend, is gonna happen when Hell friezes over!

[dosraider]

Seems a lot of you missed that one:

Or don't do this:

Simply download a gamers Vista that is easily findable on the WaReZ sites.
Ripped from everything you don't need, and that's plenty ! Leaves one (1!) install CD , yes: 1 CD and perfect for gaming (not 'online' of course). 64-bit and darned faster than XP.
Ideal for dual boot, and multigaming via LAN.

You're a bad person if you should do that.

As you won't do that, I also don't have to tell you to be carefull, several warezed Vistas are worthless, even dangerous, so know what you're doing.

FYI: I use it, it's darned much faster for gaming than XP.
I can run the latest games in high settings on it, in XP I must use low settings in 800x600.

[wardrich]

Seems a lot of you missed that one:

Or don't do this:

Simply download a gamers Vista that is easily findable on the WaReZ sites.
Ripped from everything you don't need, and that's plenty ! Leaves one (1!) install CD , yes: 1 CD and perfect for gaming (not 'online' of course). 64-bit and darned faster than XP.
Ideal for dual boot, and multigaming via LAN.

You're a bad person if you should do that.

As you won't do that, I also don't have to tell you to be carefull, several warezed Vistas are worthless, even dangerous, so know what you're doing.

FYI: I use it, it's darned much faster for gaming than XP.
I can run the latest games in high settings on it, in XP I must use low settings in 800x600.

I didn't think you could run 32bit apps in x64...

[dosraider]

I can run the latest games ....

I'm not interested in whatever 8-16-32 b apps that don't run in Vista, That's for my Xp or older systems.
It's about the speed on the higher game settings you get with those ripped Vistas, they ARE fast.
And yes, games run pretty good in Vista, much better than in XP. Newer games that is of course, you really don't need Vista for Wing Commander.
But for FarCry,TombRaider Legend and Anniversary, FEAR, STALKER and such ....

[wardrich]

I can run the latest games ....

I'm not interested in whatever 8-16-32 b apps that don't run in Vista, That's for my Xp or older systems.
It's about the speed on the higher game settings you get with those ripped Vistas, they ARE fast.
And yes, games run pretty good in Vista, much better than in XP. Newer games that is of course, you really don't need Vista for Wing Commander.
But for FarCry,TombRaider Legend and Anniversary, FEAR, STALKER and such ....

But wouldn't they have to be x64 games too? I mean, 32bit apps included games. lol.

[dosraider]

No, all (-or most-) newer games run in Vista, keep in mind it's on my single core AMD64, most problems occur with dual cores.
But you can run them by selecting a single core in settings, of course that's for crying out loud, as a half dual core is per definition slower then a normal single core as mine.

[dayaccus007]

Still, WHY you'd want Vista is still the main question here!

Because I want to play Halo2 and the next released games.

[dayaccus007]

Someone hack the game and a lot of people are playing it on XP now:laugh:

[wadeo999]

Someone hack the game and a lot of people are playing it on XP now:laugh:

That was oviusly bound to happen! lol