Vista regular solitaire is bad!!

[Guest]

After months of struggling with driver problems between Vista and Nvidia, my
husband and I dumped Nvidia and got something else. We have spent hundreds of
dollars in upgrades, e.g. LOTS of RAM. The only way Vista actually works
properly, without having to "borrow" from other programs is to buy more RAM.

Now, my current complaint is the new regular solitaire in Vista sucks! I
thought it might just be my husband and I complaining, but you can only win
the game about 15% of the time. I just went thru several "threads" on this
site and also other areas online of complaints about the same thing. We both
love just the regular 'old solitaire for relaxation, but it's so frustrating
to hardly ever win.

I sure with Microsoft would start listening to it's customers instead of
continuing to just put out their new products, upgrades, etc., with all these
problems.

Sarah

 

[Mark]

Sarah,
Do you feel that the logic is "bad" in solitare? i.e. that something in the
deal is preventing a win?

If have an old XP system still around, you should be able to copy the
solitare.exe file, I believe it is c:\windows\system32\sol.exe

Mark

 

[Guest]

Thanks, Mark! I'll try that, but will it be compatible with Vista? There are
so many compatibility issues with Vista. One thing I've learned from all of
this mess is never, EVER buy any new programs or upgrades from Microsoft
until all the bugs are out of them. It's truly frustrating to be used as
their Guinea pig. Our XP was working just fine, but we figured we'd upgrade.
We had plenty of RAM then, but Vista should come with something that says you
have to have so much memory to even run the games, etc.

Thanks again,

Sarah

 

[peanutjake]

A much better version can be found at
http://www.123freesolitaire.com

PJ

 

[Drew]

First of all obviously you do not remember how bad xp was when it first came
out or you were not using it until they fixed it......Secondly how much ram
are you using and what do you use your computer for ??..I have been running
Vista since it first came available and except for extremely minor glitches
I have not experienced any problems....I know there are people having a
horrendous time with Vista and I do understand there frustration with
it....I swear the key to Vista is building a custom system and starting from
scratch with the op system....Another key I think is to overpower the crap
out of anything they say will work....For instance some say 1gig of ram
while others say 2gigs....Personally I am running 4gigs of ddr 800...As for
Nvidia I am running a 7900gs and have had no problems with any games however
when ATI comes out with good DX10 cards I will put 3 in here...

Now to the point about Solitaire (which I have been known to waste some hrs
on)....When I first started playing it I was winning every other game and it
seemed almost too easy but as time has passed it has gotten progressively
tougher to win and I am hoping it is because it is adaptively learning
(wishful thinking but it helps )..I too am averaging around 15% and can only
hope I get better.....I personally MUCH prefer the newer solitaire to xp's
version............Just my 3 cents

 

[Knox]

I average about 30% wins, playing the 3 card option. Of course, I
occassionally cheat by holding down the shift-control-alt key to make it
deal one card at a time.

Knox