Games I plan to purchase

I figured I would post games I plan to purchase for my new machine. All these
are so far XP compatible
Fear
Quake 4
Doom 3
Half life 2
Call of Duty 2
I realize Vista is brand new and drivers and updates from MS will be needed
to make XP software run on it. As I said, I am sure companies will update
software to Vista for newbies like me or they just wont any games compatible
with XP.
Any info will help.

The only game on your list that I have heard people having problems with is
fear, apparently it has some big frame rate issues with vista.

"Chris" <Chris@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I figured I would post games I plan to purchase for my new machine. All
>these
> are so far XP compatible
> Fear
> Quake 4
> Doom 3
> Half life 2
> Call of Duty 2
> I realize Vista is brand new and drivers and updates from MS will be
> needed
> to make XP software run on it. As I said, I am sure companies will update
> software to Vista for newbies like me or they just wont any games
> compatible
> with XP.
> Any info will help.

Most of those games will work with Vista with no updates with the
exception of FEAR.

With NVIDIA cards, you may have other issues, but those are more of a
driver issue than a game vs. Vista issue.

Dustin Harper
dharper@vistarip.com
http://www.vistarip.com



Ryan Bearfield wrote:

> The only game on your list that I have heard people having problems with
> is fear, apparently it has some big frame rate issues with vista.
>
> "Chris" <Chris@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:15897454-9B72-4E71-90AA-0EB2625EF8D4@microsoft.com...

>

I love FEAR and FEAR extraction point and I don't seem to have too much of a
problem in Vista Home Premium. I have an 8800 GTS. If ever I do have
problems it is when I run the game continuously for more than an hour. I did
have a problem at first BUT if you go into the NVIDIA control panel and
change the multi display/multi GPS to the single deplay mode this ended my
major headaches.

regards
Robert
"Chris" <Chris@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I figured I would post games I plan to purchase for my new machine. All
>these
> are so far XP compatible
> Fear
> Quake 4
> Doom 3
> Half life 2
> Call of Duty 2
> I realize Vista is brand new and drivers and updates from MS will be
> needed
> to make XP software run on it. As I said, I am sure companies will update
> software to Vista for newbies like me or they just wont any games
> compatible
> with XP.
> Any info will help.

Fear seems to work fine here under vista


Ken



"Ryan Bearfield" <blanky@blanked.com> wrote in message
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> The only game on your list that I have heard people having problems with
> is fear, apparently it has some big frame rate issues with vista.
>
> "Chris" <Chris@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:15897454-9B72-4E71-90AA-0EB2625EF8D4@microsoft.com...

>

As I noted above, I was having some FEAR issues, but it turns out that the
problem was caused by my G15 keyboard. Under my old keyboard, FEAR is
running only about 10 fps slower than XP.
Doom3 runs about 10 fps slower and HL2 about 10fps slower. I'm running a
X1900XTX, I think there has been alot more compliants from the nVidia side
of the house, even a possible lawsuit mentioned. But I think in the next
month or less, nVidia will have drivers that work good enough, if not as
good as can it does under XP.



"Dustin Harper" <dharper@vistarip.com> wrote in message
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> Most of those games will work with Vista with no updates with the
> exception of FEAR.
>
> With NVIDIA cards, you may have other issues, but those are more of a
> driver issue than a game vs. Vista issue.
>
> Dustin Harper
> dharper@vistarip.com
> http://www.vistarip.com
>
>
>
> Ryan Bearfield wrote: