Please Advise

[drybones]

I would like to install Vista Home, and now have WinXP Media 2005 with SP2
and all available updates.

Playing at this time:

Oblivion
Gothic 3
NWN2
Morrowind
Lazarus
NWN Diamond
Silverfall

Question is; Will Vista Home allow me to continue with the above games, or,
is there a problem between Vista Home and any of the games?

Many thanks for reading and replying,

drybones

 

[Dustin Harper]

Not sure what video card you have, but NVIDIA drivers are still an issue on
some games. Some have no problems, others have a lot. Make sure you grab the
newest drivers as soon as you finish your install.

If you have an ATI card, it should all be good. I know Oblivion works like a
charm!

Also, vistareadygames.com is compiling a forum of what works and what
doesn't. You can ask there if your game isn't listed.

 

[drybones]

Hi,

I did forget to mention that I am running NVIDIA 7800 GTX in SLI\and the
machine has 4GB of DDR 2 SDRAM Memory.

Also as I am (at 78 years) primarily a gamer so "think" Vista Home is
best for what I should want and still get the gaming experience when
new games are available for Vista.

Thanks for reading and replying,
drybones

 

[Dale M. White]

well, your have a nice hardware config, but it's teh SLI mode that Vista has
had the most trouble. In their latest Beta build of drivers, they just added
some SLI support. So with it steal being in beta, your mileage may vary.

As a gamer (half your age and so a lot less patients) I would recommend
sticking with XP for as long as you can.I still think it will be a good 6
months, before the DX10 games are in full stride and I suspect games like
Crysis and BIOshock are going to have some growing pains as well. So
Sticking with Xp another 4-6 months might save you some headaches.

I'm playing around both with the 32bit and 64 bit flavor of vista, and at
best Vista runs just a smidge behind XP. On OpenGL games like Doom3, it runs
about 25-35fps slower. Though with your hardware, you won't feel it so I
guess it doesn't matter.