Why, Vista, why?
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almostwittyAppropos of nothing, I ended up upgrading to Windows Vista last night. (well, rather, my new swanky laptop which I got for a ridiculously cheap price arrived).
Straight away ran into a few problems. All the fancy graphics are nice, but don't actually amount to even a ramp of beans, let alone a hill. The much-vaunted security issues seem positively annoying when you're trying to set up a new laptop.
The worst issue is that my favourite game in the whole wide world, Civilisation 4, refuses to run on Vista. I've tried running patches, installing DirectX, uninstalling and reinstalling and each time various little bugs come up. including that it can't find the DVD - even though I ran it from the DVD in the first place.
Which wouldn't be so bad if ... half the reason I upgraded was so that Civilisation 4 could run comparatively smoothly on it instead of crashing when my old laptop would overheat.
Have you used/tried Vista in earnest and anger? Would I really be sad if I resorted to trying to dual-boot it just so I could run a game?
Straight away ran into a few problems. All the fancy graphics are nice, but don't actually amount to even a ramp of beans, let alone a hill. The much-vaunted security issues seem positively annoying when you're trying to set up a new laptop.
The worst issue is that my favourite game in the whole wide world, Civilisation 4, refuses to run on Vista. I've tried running patches, installing DirectX, uninstalling and reinstalling and each time various little bugs come up. including that it can't find the DVD - even though I ran it from the DVD in the first place.
Which wouldn't be so bad if ... half the reason I upgraded was so that Civilisation 4 could run comparatively smoothly on it instead of crashing when my old laptop would overheat.
Have you used/tried Vista in earnest and anger? Would I really be sad if I resorted to trying to dual-boot it just so I could run a game?
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Date: 2008-06-25 02:30 pm (UTC)Vista doesn't play well with others - or with much of anything including itself
Downgrading ain't gonna happen. It won't like it and will cause all sorts of trouble. A total drive wipe will be required.
A few people I know haven't managed a dual boot. Others have but with much snarkiness
your new shiny fast laptop will probably play Civ 4 (ain't it nice?) just fine as it is faster etc etc etc
um.. more after I have some orange juice and breakfast. maybe
don't rip your hair out. Bill's got enough of you already.