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Gamers React to Vista Launch

Posted by Zonk on from the it-stinks dept.

As cranky as IT folks are about having to roll out new Vista installs, support them, update them, etc, gamers are matching them in irritation. Ars Technica recommends you dual-boot XP and Vista if you want to keep gaming on your PC. Voodoo Extreme explores Vista's crappy audio setup, while Computer and VideoGames reports that some small developers think Vista will ruin PC gaming (a comment we've heard before). C&VG does have a slightly more hopeful article up too, talking about the future of Vista gaming and what the new OS could mean for games ... once all the kinks are worked out.

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  1. Re:My Reaction is... by XaXXon · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you're playing WoW (and SWG for whatever reason), then we all know you have no time for sleeping.

    Level 70 yet?

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    1. Re:Next on Slashdot: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      I am a Pre-Op Groin Shaver and I like Vista you insensitive clod. The Aero view is much nicer than my work view.

      Mij

  3. Re:My Reaction is... or Economics 200 by DrEldarion · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, I know it's intuitive, my 15 yo son just paid $1.99 for a two-week trial version for his Mac. But, you'd get more exercise, and avoid Cartman's fate if you actually could use Wii gestures to attack.

    Given the amount of time that many people spend playing WoW, you'd be able to tell which ones were the Wii players by their ONE MASSIVE ARM.

  4. Re:My Reaction is... or Economics 200 by EvilIdler · · Score: 2, Funny

    you'd be able to tell which ones were the Wii players by their ONE MASSIVE ARM. They could be taken for very lonely people.