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Post by battousai90 on Nov 20, 2006 22:13:18 GMT -5
Windows Vista is comming (january 2007).
I hope we can play on Vista with our favorite Falcom Game ?
Ys origin come 12.21, so 1 month later windows Vista come on.
SOmeone Have some information ?
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Post by sideshow on Nov 21, 2006 0:52:23 GMT -5
It seems like Windows XP has been out for eons now. I'm glad a new OS is finally coming out. Viva La Vista!
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Post by FM-77AV on Nov 21, 2006 3:30:38 GMT -5
Who cares about Vista? It's just an operating system. A slow one, at that.  |
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Post by FM-77AV on Nov 21, 2006 4:01:59 GMT -5
Sorry, I don't know a thing about Vista, except that the system requirements are very, very high.
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Post by Tigershard on Nov 21, 2006 11:55:00 GMT -5
Windows Vista is great, and I've been using the beta. Seriously, the final beta was light years better than the previous ones. I am currently playing OiF on it, and played Ys I & 2 complete a few weeks ago with out any major problems (was missing the codec for the Ys 2 vid). While it was slow early in the beta, right now most of my games run nearly as fast as they did before. I totally do not mind trading a few FPS for this new operating system.
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Post by FM-77AV on Nov 21, 2006 11:55:52 GMT -5
Why is it better? How?
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Post by Tigershard on Nov 21, 2006 21:02:08 GMT -5
The newest beta build is not a memory hog as the old builds were. Everyone keeps saying one reason not to get Vista is because of how much memory it takes up. Once it is booted, it does take 300mb of ram, with my anti-virus and the side-bar running. This is about how much ram Windows XP uses when I load it.
The new aero interface is pretty. It isn't a huge step above XP in usability, but it is better. By using 3d acceleration for the UI, I can have all the fancy effects turned on and not loose performance like XP does if you have more than the Windows Classic layout on.
A lot of people are complaining that it has been dumbed down for non-advanced users... I say about damn time. Descriptions of options and features are a lot clearer, many of the icons are nicer and make a bit more intuitive sense. Yes, once again, you have to dig more to get to certain functions and features if you want to change them, but nothing is really difficult to find. I'd rather have to dig more to get to the System menu than having my mom call me asking me how to change the color schema.
Connecting to networks is a lot easier too, and you get a lot more security options. Every time you connect to a new network, it will ask you whether it is a home, work, or public network, and configure your system to be open to other computers or not. Say at home you have saome directories shared for your other computers, if you go to a place and your computer is set to public, lets say at school, then no one can see or access those shared folders, nice!
Windows Vista automatically detects when I turn my Xbox 360 on and offers to stream all my music and video files to it. I find that simply awesome!
Overall, I like. My system has been just as stable as Windows Xp, if not more so.
Just to give a few negatives, it is a pain in the ass that the OS now takes about 10 gigs of hard drive space, plus more if you have system restore turned on.
Not all old programs and drivers will be perfectly compatible. The system complains every time I turn on my laptop because the mouse control program might have problems. It actually runs fine, but luckily you can tell the OS to not notify you anymore of problems for certain programs.
When I installed a game, Heroes of Might and Magic V, it complained that I was missing a certain Direct X9 file. I just copied it over from my XP system, and the game runs flawlessly.
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