SHIII and Vista

[cdrsubron7]

First, let me say that I'm not looking for comments from people asking me why I bothered buying Vista. What I'm looking for is some help from other people who have Vista installed and SHIII also. I've encountered two problems with SHIII sofar on Vista. The first one has to do with saved games. When I go back and try to pick up where i left off by starting a saved game in a particular patrol, when I start that save I get a CTD. the other has to do with screenshots. Using Ctrl+F11 to make screenshots works fine in XP, but when I've tried it in Vista I see no screenshots in the game folder where they are suppossed to be. Anybody have any solutions?



cdrsubron7 :hmm: :doh:

[cdrsubron7]

First, let me say that I'm not looking for comments from people asking me why I bothered buying Vista. What I'm looking for is some help from other people who have Vista installed and SHIII also. I've encountered two problems with SHIII sofar on Vista. The first one has to do with saved games. When I go back and try to pick up where i left off by starting a saved game in a particular patrol, when I start that save I get a CTD. the other has to do with screenshots. Using Ctrl+F11 to make screenshots works fine in XP, but when I've tried it in Vista I see no screenshots in the game folder where they are suppossed to be. Anybody have any solutions?



cdrsubron7 :hmm: :doh:


Ya know, it would be nice if that the powers that be on this website were to make a sticky for SHIII and Vista. More and more people will be looking for help with it and SHIII and SHIV as time goes on.



cdrsubron7 :up: :rock:

[GlobalExplorer]

I would recommend to get you two exchangeable hard disk mounts so you can switch between OS's. There will be some time before it becomes commonplace to run XP games under Vista, so it would be wise to keep XP for running games ..

[cdrsubron7]

I would recommend to get you two exchangeable hard disk mounts so you can switch between OS's. There will be some time before it becomes commonplace to run XP games under Vista, so it would be wise to keep XP for running games ..


With your thoughts in mind, GlobalExplorer, I installed Vista on a seperate HD and already had XP installed on two other HDs when I installed Vista. Thanks for the advice though. :yep:



cdrsubron7 :D ;)

[ReallyDedPoet]

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=105144&highlight=vista

Have a look at this, maybe there are some folks there you can chat or PM with that can help.

RDP

[Elder-Pirate]

My understanding that as of present "Vista" is NOT meant to play Sims/Games.

Gee "Bill" thanks a lot.:damn:

[GT182]

Lots of drivers and software stoll need to get an approval from M$ inorder for them to run on Vista. It'll be slow but eventually you'll see things change for the better. All the advice I've seen so far is to hold off on Vista until a service pack and other necessary improvements come out, and stick with XP in the meantime.

If you're buying a new computer, you have no choice. Except for the few remaing on the shelves that still have XP. But I don't imagine they'll last long.

[flintlock]

If you're buying a new computer, you have no choice. Except for the few remaing on the shelves that still have XP. But I don't imagine they'll last long. If somebody buying a new brand name system that comes with Vista pre-installed choose not to run Vista for whatever reason, they could easily reinstall WinXP if it was that important to them (warranty and tech support issues notwithstanding).