While I share your disappoint with Vista, mine is only because I was hoping
for the end of BSODs at the cost of a 10% performance hit (even if it's 20%
in some games). But I "seem" to get more BSODs in Vista that I think I ever
got under XP, I'm sure it's because the video\sound drivers are still being
worked out, but the whole point, as I read it, from making the change was to
keep video drivers from being able to crash vista. So I'm losing performance
and it's not any more stable
With that being said, head on over to
http://garage.gaspowered.com/ and look
at the just released Supreme Commander game, which is a Games for Windows
certified product and is vista supported (it's even listed on the box).
Outside of the securom problems, there are plenty of people who can't get
the game to run or it's crashing and\or BSODing their systems.
Guess what ? So far it a good number of them are Windows XP users. Now if
one of the vista users reported that problem here, and a MVP said it was the
game and not Vista, you would what ? Say they are covering for Vista ?
If you want to rag on Vista, then rag on it for being no more stable than
XP, yet costing 10% in performance to act more stable
Funny enough, I got a BSOD under Vista with this game, I then played it
under XP and got a CTD (crash to desktop) I saw they had a patch out and
now, I get a crash to desktop under Vista. Which goes back to the game being
at fault and not Vista.
I'm no Vista Apologist ! If they would release DX10 for XP, I would
un-install Vista and never look back. But they got me by the balls on this
one, so I must work with what I got and I like to play games, so I don't
have time or the desire to throw my hands up and blame vista for every
hiccup, I look for the real problem. Vista was suppose to make this easier
and in my opinion it fails, but it's really no worse than XP is\was. Just
10% slower about it
jim said:
yeah throw the blame on vanguard.. but do tell them that you are using
vista...
then they will say.... aaahhhh another user of that crappy OS....
MVP logic> it is NEVER vistas fault for anything.. vista is a supreme
creation,
godly in nature.. unblemished and perfect...
They have little shrines with their vista box in the center and kneel to
vista
3 times a day.
Richard G. Harper said:
The error is in the game, your Vanguard software is crashing. You need
to pass this information to the Vanguard folks and find out why. They
will be the ones who would need to fix it.
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BayouState said:
While playing an online game, Vista will crash to deskstop every 1-3
hours
round the clock. If you reboot you can run another 1-3 hours before it
crashes again and always the exact same error. What kind of error is
this?
Overheating, RAM, Video card? Please help! Thanks and heres the
error.
Problem signature
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: vgclient.exe
Application Version: 1.0.0.1758
Application Timestamp: 45dcb885
Fault Module Name: kernel32.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.0.6000.16386
Fault Module Timestamp: 4549bd80
Exception Code: 00000000
Exception Offset: 0001b09e
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 8b24
Additional Information 2: 2f9b7f460e7ff64d38980bba533a43d3
Additional Information 3: 9678
Additional Information 4: 3103790cfddb3d8e377da06147bcce82
Extra information about the problem
Bucket ID: 385018758
