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Originally Posted by barkhorn45
I have sh3 with gwx2.1 installed on a laptop with vista home premium and have'nt experianced any difficulties.I d/led sh3 from direct to drive for $9.95 no starforce and already patched to 1.4
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I too have a vista machine - running starforce-free sh3 1.4 (no mods tho' - YET!)
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Originally Posted by kenijaru
the problem is... how hard will it be to get XP drivers for the elements of the laptop? :hmm:
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I'm not sure what hardware you foresee problems with, kenijaru! I imagine XP is still the world's most commonly-used operating system...
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Originally Posted by kenijaru
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Originally Posted by 9emini
Perhaps if you can't avoid getting a laptop with Vista on it, you could see how installing/updating/playing SH etc goes on it, and if needed, acquire XP?
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he can't avoid it, XP hasn't been put into new machines since... uhm... a long time ago  |
Make's Weiß Pinguin's suggestion all the more useful!
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Originally Posted by kenijaru
also, the issue with Vista (the way I see it) is not "compatibility" but rather... how anoying it is asking you a thousand times about the smalles tasks and details, being painfully slow and prone to stalling when asked to multitask. (that's my experience with a toshiba with vista home)
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Vista home might be your problem there! I use the 'business' edition. Disabling 'User Account Control' (which - pain of pains! - requires a reboot) deals to the first issue you raise. I find it annoying too, but were I to disable it I'd need a slew of resource-hogging software (virus scanners etc) to do the same job. Haven't noticed any deficiencies on the multitasking front - tho' file operations do go ridiculously slow (even after a service pack!). I mean... to copy the tiniest of files can take an inordinate amount of time...