Originally posted by: Mem
Originally posted by: Oxaqata
No, not a PEBKAC error.......................
While trying to LAN games such as WC3 the Windows XP computers are completely fine. However ALL the Vista computers are having problems ranging from lockups to being unable to close non-responding programs (as a result of recoverable lockups). If XP had DX10 i'm positive nobody would voluntarily use Vista. What a waste of 6 billion dollars.
You talking about Wing Commander 3 or Warcraft 3?..There's a big difference in time between the two(1994 and 2002).
FYI I have some very old games (Win95,98 games) that won't run in WinXP,however I won't say its XP fault,mainly because you can't expect every new OS at the time of release to support every old game out there,those games were made for the operating system of the time, and not one thats not even alpha or beta ,you can't have double standards ie one for Vista and one for XP,operating systems/drivers change over time,more releases there are then the more chances something will be incompatible with some very old games.
FYI I have some very old games ie Icewind Dale (2000 release date) ,Baldur's Gate (1999 release date) to name a few that run fine even on my Vista x64 so who are you going to blame now ?...Vista or the game developers of WC3?..bear in mind Vista was not even alpha as I stated..see my point?
Vista compatibility is very good considering how many games are out there.
However ALL the Vista computers are having problems ranging from lockups to being unable to close non-responding programs (as a result of recoverable lockups)
I don't have those games so can't test them,however I have had/seen lockups in the pass (before I discovered the cause) caused by overclocked video cards in both XP and Vista,this goes for factory overclocked cards too(happened to me in XP and Vista,simple 10mhz underclock of my factory overclocked video card fixed it for me,100% stable since then),also some games need to be run as admin and XP compatibility mode with Vista,there could be many reasons why rather then just the game being incompatible period.
Remember gamers in general tend to overclock their hardware.