Vista Wreaks Havoc On Games, Says Report

[llwyd]

Originally Posted by name='equk'

WINE - Wine Is Not an Emulator

sorry, alternative implementation of the Windows API in order to create a compatibility layer for windows programs. And XMS is right, after a few months everything will be dandy and most people wont be bothering with these games

[nathan]

well, i've just played duke 3d on vista

[PP Mguire]

According to previous stuff said shouldnt all DX9 games be software emulated on Vista? If thats the case then its already emulated and that would be the problem with some of your hiccups. I believe thats what the Win XP compat is for. (Like 95 compat in XP ect) Idk, sounds like you deff need to wait for SP1 and more compatability before using Vista.

[Sticky Mick]

AFAIK.

Wild Tangent don't make games, but I may be wrong. Don't think they're the sort of games you wanna rush out to the Game store and buy anyway. The last experience that I had with Wild Tangent was a screensaver that cr@pped up my Win98 rig.

[FarFarAway]

http://www.wildgames.com/ECS/htdocs/...x?DP=wildgames

That them?

http://www.wildtangent.com/home.html

It seems so

Hardly an Industry leader

[equk]

Originally Posted by name='Kempez™'

Hardly an Industry leader

Who said they were

The article even starts with

small development studios and individual programmers of casual games: St. John claims that at least nine out of ten games do not work with Vista.

Unless you're saying because they aren't an industry leader, their views don't count or they don't matter?

Everyone's got to start somewhere

[Sticky Mick]

Yep, that be the ones. Strangely enough if you look really hard on there it says "Windows Vista Compatible"

[equk]

Originally Posted by name='Sticky Mick'

Yep, that be the ones. Strangely enough if you look really hard on there it says "Windows Vista Compatible"

hehe

and it's a pretty big image on the front page

[FarFarAway]

What I'm saying is that we don't hear Epic or CryTek complaining about this, with their huge projects that are far more complicated than the simple rubbish Wild Tangent put out

[ai_01]

wildtangent = loads of spyware and adware, and some viruses