Vista Not Playing Nice with Gamers
Windows Vista’s powerful new graphics engine may be one of its hallmark features, but it’s engendering complaints from hardcore gamers…
Windows Vista’s powerful new graphics engine may be one of its hallmark features, but it’s engendering complaints from a key segment of potential early adopters: hardcore gamers.
A small but significant number of games written for Windows XP either crash or creep along slowly on Vista, according to numerous complaints by game enthusiasts in online forums.
“Formatted PC, installed Vista, updated any drivers possible. Now half [of my] games will not run, or run with corrupt graphics,” lamented one poster on Jan. 31 in a discussion forum at graphics chipmaker Nvidia’s Web site.
“You installed Vista. You deserve your problems. Heh,” replied a second poster.
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