vista 64 bit and gaming
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Which Quake? I have had problems with the Quake 1 engines!
The only other games are Jericho, Bloodrayne and Painkiller. Those have been impossible to run.
So far I have got Bioshock, The Witcher, Prey, Portal, Quake 4, Doom3, Diablo II, Condemned, NFSMW and NFSU2 running with no issues.
The only other games are Jericho, Bloodrayne and Painkiller. Those have been impossible to run.
So far I have got Bioshock, The Witcher, Prey, Portal, Quake 4, Doom3, Diablo II, Condemned, NFSMW and NFSU2 running with no issues.
I've played that with no issues.
I have these installed at the moment, all work with no hassles:
Assassins Creed
Audiosurf
Battlefield 2 (+ Special Forces)
Bejeweled
Call of Duty 4
Call of Juarez
Command & Conquer 3
Command & Conquer Red Alert 2
Command & Conquer Generals
Command & Conquer Zero Hour
Counterstrike Source
Crysis
Dawn of War
Dawn of War Winter Assault
Dawn of War Dark Crusade
Day of Defeat Source
Enemy Territory Quake Wars
GRID
GTA San Andreas
GTI Racing
Half Life
Half Life 2
Half Life 2 Deathmatch
Half Life 2 Episode One
Half Life 2 Episode two
Juiced 2
Oblivion
Outrun 2006
Peggle Deluxe
Prey
Sim City 4
Sin Episodes Emergence
Soldier of Fortune 2
STALKER
Team Fortress Classic
Test Drive Unlimited
Thief Deadly Shadows
Trackmania United Forever
Trials 2
Universe at War - Earth Assault
Unreal Tournament 3
I've played Painkiller without issue on Vista64, but it's the Steam version..
I had the retail version of Painkiller working on Vista 64 too.
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More recent games tend to like more than 2 gigs of ram when you're on Vista. Just a warning.
Interesting. No idea why it didn't work for me.
I've been getting RAM warnings playing The Witcher on 3GB, though this may be something to do with running it at 1920x1200, I never had that problem at 1280x1024. I plan to upgrade to 6GB next month.
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Work fine... if they are not x64 compatible they'll work fine under x86
Didn't even use compatability mode either. Touch wood, i've never had to yet!
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I didn't have any problems running any games in Vista64 and the performance was okay whilst I had 4GB of ram installed.
The general slowness of the OS is awful once you go back to XP though.
The general slowness of the OS is awful once you go back to XP though.
Don't have that game installed, never have. I just go by how well my games play. Oh, and I use Crymark too
http://www.marc2003.ukfsn.org/ocuk/results.php?bench=crysis&type=1680+x+1050+VERY+HIGH
The only probs I had with gaming and vista 64 bit are with refresh rates in games such as Bioshock, Gears of War in DX10 mode and Mass effect (to name a few!)
Bioshock was fixed with the first patch, Gears I played around with the settings until it worked (I might have played in DX9 mode) and Mass effect again I think I played with settings until I got a decent enough resolution without a massive border down one side of the screen. Perhaps I've been doing something wrong tho
Bioshock was fixed with the first patch, Gears I played around with the settings until it worked (I might have played in DX9 mode) and Mass effect again I think I played with settings until I got a decent enough resolution without a massive border down one side of the screen. Perhaps I've been doing something wrong tho