Hiatus on 28/4/2009 at 17:13
biker
I'd be curious to see your view on Win7 (esp. its speed in the shell/games + compatibility with games/apps) - RC should be out soon.
bikerdude on 28/4/2009 at 19:27
Quote Posted by Hiatus
biker
I'd be curious to see your view on Win7 (esp. its speed in the shell/games + compatibility with games/apps) - RC should be out soon.
ive already played with the beta and my thoughts are so so.. but the RC version of windows is out in a few weeks so will try it again..
Fraser on 29/4/2009 at 07:48
I just bought a laptop with Vista and it passed the one crucial test -- will it run Thief 2? :cheeky:
No issues so far, except that the game doesn't look as good as it did on my older laptop. I think that can be tweaked -- hopefully it can, anyway. I looked high and low for a laptop that came with XP but they are few and far between, and this machine ( which is huge and is only nominally a laptop) has a nice graphics card that should be able to handle newer games. I still have my older laptop if I can't get the graphics on older game to look right on this one.
bikerdude on 29/4/2009 at 08:24
Quote Posted by Fraser
I just bought a laptop with Vista and it passed the one crucial test -- will it run Thief 2? :cheeky:
thats good, what gfx card does it have, as you may need to install the DDfix and widescreen patch...
Fraser on 30/4/2009 at 02:06
Quote Posted by Bikerdude
thats good, what gfx card does it have, as you may need to install the DDfix and widescreen patch...
It has a Geforce 9600 GT.
I think you're right about the fix and widescreen patch. The game runs flawlessly but looks very drab and it's hard to see in dark areas. Thanks for the tip -- I'll check those out. :thumb:
I'll be interested to see what other games will run on this machine. Otherwise it's a glorified typewriter -- though in truth, I bought it so I can play games in bed. :cheeky:
