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25 Games Tested in Vista
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."
Some old software doesn't work in M$ latest OS.... film at 11.
I guess you could say that.
... Yeah shure.
Your sentence: "Asus A8R32-MVP with *** Socket AM2 ***? using DDR memory. And an FX 60? He obviously has a 939-system. How far can we trust this guy to have opinions on drivers and stuff?" - especially the first half - is the exact reason why I - and I consider myself a PC hardware expert - am fed up with BTO and self assembly PCs. Back in the day (only 3 years ago) you could say "AMD + Socket A" and know that your hardware would work.
Now, 5 additional sockets later (adding up to something around 13 (thirteen!) different PC CPU sockets!), even the AMD side of PC hardware is getting difficult to overlook for *everyone* but the most persistant hardware config freaks. I'm totally fed up with this mess and so super-happy that I started down the Mac OS X road just 2.5 years ago. Buy computer, unpack, plug in, switch on, works! That or some cheap ass PC notebook and Ubuntu Linux - anything else is just plain silly nowadays imho.
And people say self-assembly is cheaper
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca