12 February 2007
Gamers Facing Problems in Vista
It seems that gamers are having trouble with Vista being compatible with some popular games. One gamer lists Need 4 Speed Carbon, Hitman Blood Money, Splinter Cell Double Agent, Worms Mayhem and Company of Heroes as games that don't work on their Vista box. The problems include errors on startup and corrupt shadows and graphics. Another person says that it's just machines with Nvidia video cards while ATI video cards don't have the problem. He goes on to state that the problem is the instability of Nvidia drivers and that he's sure that they will release a stable driver soon.
Another discussion looks at a more positive side focusing on the games that are compatable and what has to be changed to make them compatable. The list includes Deus Ex, CS:S, FEAR and WoW among others. What is troubling is that this discussion mentions that some of the games don't work without running them as an administrator.
Administrator accounts should be only used for administering the system and not used for normal access to the system and gaming. It leaves the system open for security issues. It also leaves the possibility that some unaware or otherwise cretinous user may leave their computer constantly logged into an admin account. I'm sure most of us know of one such cretin who will not use a normal login no matter how much they are told of the dangers related to it. They usually are the ones who insist they don't need a firewall for their Internet connections as well.
There is also a lot of comments that the problems are exaggerated, which I agree with, but for those with NVidia cards there may be problems until they finish working on their driver for Vista which is currently only a beta release and not certified to work perfectly. One important reason to wait for all of the software and hardware to become compatible with Vista. For gamers there are currently no games written for DirectX10 anyway so they have no real need to upgrade to Vista just yet.
Another discussion looks at a more positive side focusing on the games that are compatable and what has to be changed to make them compatable. The list includes Deus Ex, CS:S, FEAR and WoW among others. What is troubling is that this discussion mentions that some of the games don't work without running them as an administrator.
Administrator accounts should be only used for administering the system and not used for normal access to the system and gaming. It leaves the system open for security issues. It also leaves the possibility that some unaware or otherwise cretinous user may leave their computer constantly logged into an admin account. I'm sure most of us know of one such cretin who will not use a normal login no matter how much they are told of the dangers related to it. They usually are the ones who insist they don't need a firewall for their Internet connections as well.
There is also a lot of comments that the problems are exaggerated, which I agree with, but for those with NVidia cards there may be problems until they finish working on their driver for Vista which is currently only a beta release and not certified to work perfectly. One important reason to wait for all of the software and hardware to become compatible with Vista. For gamers there are currently no games written for DirectX10 anyway so they have no real need to upgrade to Vista just yet.
Labels: ati, game, microsoft, nvidia, os, vista
