OK I have to break down and Quake LOL

[Eric the Grey]

And you can turn off all the hand-holding. First thing's disabling the UAC. Then hit the indexing. From there, go to tastes.

I think people just bash Vista because it's fashionable. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: people who bash Vista either never worked with, or forgot about, Windows Millenium Edition.

Or the problems that XP had which were almost identical...

Personally, I prefer to keep UAC on. I've had a couple of times when a website has tried to force an installation of something that IE didn't catch, and UAC allowed me to stop it. It's happened with other disks as well. It's just too easy to do silent installs on an XP machine for my liking.

I haven't found how to turn off indexing though, although I really haven't looked. It seems to like to pick the times when I'm playing WoW to do it, so it's something I've been meaning to do.

I don't care much for Vista, but Compatability doesn't work very well in XP either. I've only seen one or two incidents where it actually helped.

Yea, compatibility mode sucked. I've not really tried with Vista because the games I play currently all run fine as they are. I wish I had a suggestion for the OP. Perhaps setting up a virtual machine that runs DOS and running the game directly from that? I use Virtualbox for virtualization on my Vista Home box since Virtual PC isn't supported (although it will run, sometimes). VirutalBox has worked pretty well, so far.



Eric the Grey

[Geek King]

I am, however, thinking about a new beast in about three months. Overtime has been plentiful, and I'm building up the cash quite nicely. I'm seriously thinking about Vista for it, but I'm reckoning on a minimum of 4Gb to run it. I've been running XP on 1Gb for over three years now, so it would be reasonable to expect far higher hardware requirements.

Rapscallion

2GB will run Vista fine, if you want to save a little cash, but 4GB won't hurt you, other than running up against the RAM limit if you're using the 32-bit version.

The biggest complaint I hear from people?
"It doesn't look like XP."

I try to keep from rolling my eyes. Oops, there I go...

[Broomjockey]

Personally, I prefer to keep UAC on. I've had a couple of times when a website has tried to force an installation of something that IE didn't catch, and UAC allowed me to stop it. It's happened with other disks as well. It's just too easy to do silent installs on an XP machine for my liking.

I thought about that, but solved that issue by getting the active registry watch function of SpyBot. Anything that wants to run itself needs a registry entry, and I can shut it down hard from there. I tried running UAC for a little, but almost went insane after the first bit. Although that was while I was setting up the system, and so doing a lot of stuff. Might be better now that it's set up.

[Eric the Grey]

I thought about that, but solved that issue by getting the active registry watch function of SpyBot. Anything that wants to run itself needs a registry entry, and I can shut it down hard from there. I tried running UAC for a little, but almost went insane after the first bit. Although that was while I was setting up the system, and so doing a lot of stuff. Might be better now that it's set up.

Oh yes! It definitely gets better after you've got everything set up and going. There is ONE application that I use on a semi-regular basis that seems to have to be escalated whenever I run it, and I keep hoping they'll up date to run correctly with Vista, but that's minor too.

Once you get beyond the whole installation of everything you normally use, you only really see it when you install new stuff, or like the above, if something insists on running with administrator privileges. Ya just gotta get beyond that first few days...

My nephew just got a new laptop and was debating on keeping Vista or "upgrading" (as he puts it) to XP. I managed to convince him to stick with it long enough to give it a try, and he's also decided it's worth keeping.



Eric the Grey

[Racket_Man]

My suggestion is to dual-boot. Have a secondary boot for games and put XP on that one.

Other than that, I suggest quakeone. They probably already have a work around to get quake working on Vista (as far as I know, a work around is require for all versions of quake)

I use GLQuake on my XP machine. Don't know if it works under Vista or not, but it might be worth trying. So far, I haven't been able to get it to do anything other than 640X480, but it doesn't look too bad.

One place you can get it is at fileplanet.com.

BIG thanks to Mad Mike and Lost MyMind.

this works beautifully and looks great too. I wish I had GLQuake and Proquake launcher when I had my XP machine (would have saved me a lolt of frustrating hours of various changes. I know I did a google search at the time but it seems that fileplanet or quakeone did not come up in the results. Now if I can get all of the old maps to work that will be great too.

I still love Quake. I just complete M1L1 (or is it L1M1) in my customary 5.5 minutes

Something in Vista working really well? Haha.

yes now I am happy

again thanks to every one for the info and suggestions. you guys came through once again for me.