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[ivank]

So do those games work on Vista?

[Bill Nichols]

Originally Posted by ivank

So do those games work on Vista?

Yes. I have all of them running on my Vista-64 PC.

Here is the list of games I have installed (in no particular order):

Call of Duty 4
GTR 2
Janes FA-18
Falcon 4.0 Allied Force
Flight Simulator 9
Combat Flight Simulator 3
Over Flanders Fields
rFactor
GTR Evolution
Strike Fighters
Wings over Europe
Wings over Vietnam
Wings over Israel
First Eagles
Strike Fighters 2
Silent Hunter 3
Silent Hunter 4
IL-2 Sturmovik 1946
Lock On Modern Air Combat
Grand Prix Legends
Dangerous Waters
ArmA
The Chronicles of Riddick - Assault on Dark Athena
Barrow Hill
Call of Cthulhu
Clive Barker's Undying
Darkness Within
DOOM 3
F1 Challenge 99-02
Eagle Lander 3D
Battlestations Pacific
Steel Beasts Pro PE
Sherlock Holmes - The Awakening
Scratches Director's Cut
Orbiter
Jutland
Dracula Origin
Space Shuttle Mission 2007

Do I have time to ever play these? No way.

[ivank]

WOW thats alot

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by Bill Nichols

The Alienware M17 or M17x looks to be a good choice.

Whichever way you go: You didn't say anything about your OS... remember that if you want to take advantage of anything over 3GM RAM, you'll need a 64bit OS.

4GB. People forget that the kernel is loaded into the last part of a 4GB system on a 4GB system. This allows your programs to have access to approximately 3.5GB with the system owning the rest. However, without the /3gb switch, a single program will only have access 2GB at a time unless that switch is present. Of course, sloppy programming means some applications will break with the /3gb switch, particular old software that wasn't designed on Visual Studio 6 or above. What happens is they expect the end of the address space to be 2GB and when its not, they freak out.

-S