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25 Games Tested in Vista

Posted by Zonk on from the games-for-working dept.

mikemuch writes "Jason Cross at ExtremeTech has installed more than 25 PC Games in Windows Vista and reports back with his experiences with each. For the most part, the OS handled games with aplomb, but on the whole ran them slightly slower than XP, and some required logging in as administrator to install them. These and other minor issues were the result of immature drivers. It was hit or miss whether games would appear in the Games Explorer correctly with box art, and GameTap doesn't work yet at all."

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  1. Re:PC:Games machine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "We use Mac OS X for our workstations (lower support cost, higher productivity)"

    Shall we pull your other finger now?

  2. Re:DX10 will eliminate this problem for MS by kalirion · · Score: 3, Funny

    Great, then can I use a Win32 Unix Emulator on XP to run Wine to run DX10 games?

  3. Re:Um, yeah, about that Games Explorer thing... by Shabbs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Holy crap! So, when you're surfing the pr0n, do icons for BangBros and what not get added to the "Pr0n Explorer"? ;)

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  4. Re:Um, yeah, about that Games Explorer thing... by d3ac0n · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now that would be funny to see as an add-on to the Explorer interface.

    Start -> Porn Explorer :)

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