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Why switch to Vista? This is the bigger question. If all you are getting is better eye candy, better video games, and all of this requires nearly 4 times the RAM, ROM, .... You'd use a 3COM 3C501 Ethernet card, an S3 video chip, an ATA/IDE hard drive and CDROM, and a Rockwell Hayes compatible "smart-modem".

Vista doesn't like Firefox ..
I'd love to build one of each :-) And like I said, with Vista and all the stuff it likes to do in the background, the Dual core will likely be of far greater benefit. The only reason you saw flicker in the past was because video cards not having enough memory to spare for double buffering.

Video Card and Memory Problems
For the Gods to travel up the Nile, will take "time", time for the snake to evolve into the eagle. The temples to the various archetypal Gods, and the complex ..... While the tower at Windsor Castle acts out the "toppling tower" card in the Egyptian Tarot; "Babylon is fallen, is fallen" in the biblical version.

New video card now, or wait for Vista and DX10?
Just knowing that FSX is such a memory hog I'm not surprised but yet I am because of the way it presented itself. Just another blow to my electronic ego I guess. Anyway, this is yet another reason I'm thinking it COULD be the video card. Or maybe I've just got too many things runnning in the background.

Will this computer run Vista adequately?
They find a world that's just like Egypt...apart from the fact that it's ruled by Jaye Davidson (The Crying Game), an eccentric alien taking human form (almost) When I reviewed this film for the rental video I wrote : "Also, the video will be P&S, and it's a film that needs to be seen in true widescreen to make

Ping Katy
As a true superset of Home Basic, Windows Vista Home Premium will include everything from Home Basic, as well as Media Center and Media Center Extender functionality (including Cable Card support), DVD video authoring and HDTV support, DVD ripping support (yes, you read that right), Tablet PC functionality,

Vista is GREAT!!!
No timings? You don't really expect anyone to take your word for anything, do you? Well, let's throw in a little game -- like Nexuiz, windowed mode. I found can slow down this machine is rendering video with Cinelerra -- which guzzles all available CPU. Vista would have crapped out a looong time before this.

Even More Vista Shittiness (printer drivers)
Fortran Fort...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista games I have this problem as well. I run an X1900X ATI card. I know that's a bit extreme, just for a game, but maybe other games will run into that problem. Sorry about your misfortunes, I have a hammer if you need to borrow it.

TO SYNCHRONIZE CELESTIAL AND GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE (Games 6)
Anything I should consider in terms of OS, hardware, video cards, etc? Will these games work with duo or quad processors? NVidia 8800 GT cards? SLI? Etc? Anyone playing on Vista? 32 bit vs 64? Sorry if this is off-topic, but.... I really want to take these issues into consideration and you guys are playing the

New video card considerations
On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 13:46:04 -0400, Mangyrat wrote: sorry I gave bad advice before thinking. hold off on any video upgrade till vista comes out in a few more tested the beta of vista i was distinctly unimpressed and couldnt see much over xp apart from memory bloat and a little eye candy. direct x10 will take

Vista RC1 review by The Inquirer
Lighting and other effects that used to take several pipeline "passes" can now run though a shader program to get the same results with fewer passes and less Windows Vista will still work with current DirectX 9 video cards, but you'll need a DirectX 10 video card to run DX10-enabled games at the best settings.

upgrade to vista
Don Burnette d.burne...@clothes.comcast.net alt games microsoft flight-sim For some reason, I thought you went with the GTX - that one is a little out of my I'm Vista ready with this card. If you are going to lay down the bucks for an 8800 or something DX10 compliant, I'd take a good look at the entire system.

Anyone upgrading to Vista?
When you leave 5, sometimes the computer leaves you 2 or 3 (instead of 4). If you then take all the remaining matches, the game will crash. Arnold Palmer Golf - Genesis (Fantazy .... Load one time the game with a game save of EXHUMED/1999/POWERSLAVE or QUAKE in the memory. "DEATH TANK" will appear on the main menu.

Just Finished TR II (long review)
Microsoft believes that you're going to see the amount of video memory being shipped on cards hurtle up when Vista ships. .... 512 MB RAM and a 256 MB graphics card - and it better be a PCVI Express card - basically you need to buy a very new high end games machine with the very latest hardware.

Ping Katy
If what you need now is dual monitor: perhaps best just to concentrate on the video card to drive the monitors? Since you would not (I assume) be using two Then, when Conroe out and stable along with Vista, big upgrade: new CPU, chipset, memory, videocard that will be able to drive both your monitors with ease.

How can I speed up Vista
If I am going to do this, and my sound card won't work, on board network card, or video card in current games, then I will wait. From what I understand I'll need to take the motherboard out anyway to change it so I might do the upgrade now. If my system will not be able to work well enough to play games like

Video Card and Memory Problems
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Battlefield 2142 not running in vista
Apple Apple IIGS computer This is the base unit only, and it has only one card in it, the memory card. There's only the original 256k of RAM in it but there's (untested) Misc SVHS cables 6' (new) composite video cables 6' (new) videogames N64 game, War Gods, cart only N64 game, MACE, cart only Super NES game,

recommend a microATX CPU cooler?
Vista will use this new technology called "SuperFetch," it will use your RAM as cache memory to load programs/apps faster, and it will want to suck up as you a sweet vista machine but it will cost you. I'm talking $1000 for the CPU, $1000 for the video card set up, and probably at least $300-$500 for the RAM.

Windows Vista back to XP SP2
Dudley Henriques dhenriq...@rcn.com alt games microsoft flight-sim For some reason I thought you already had an 8800. Now I understand a bit better :-)) From I'm Vista ready with this card. If you are going to lay down the bucks for an 8800 or something DX10 compliant, I'd take a good look at the entire system.