F.E.A.R. and loathing in Vista
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I have a decent system that will run all of the latest games on XP with MOST of the eye-candy set to High. I've got an Athlon 64 4000+, an MSI K8N Platinum mobo, 2GB's of RAM, an nVidia 7600 VidCard, SATA HDD, etc., etc. I installed a clean copy of Vista RC1 that seemed to go fairly smoothly. I installed Office 2K3 and my other "needed" apps, but then I wanted to install my games to see how Vista handled those. I installed 3 games to see if they worked: F.E.A.R., Quake IV and TitanQuest. All three games installed fine, but I got different results with all three.
1. F.E.A.R., surprisingly, ran immdediately, but seemed to stutter a little. I
exited to the menu to lower my settings, but at that point, the game froze and I
had to end the process to get back to Vista. Has anyone gotten this game to run
right? How?
2. Quake IV installed fine and the id screens started to appear when I started the
game. Then nothing. No video, no sound, nothing. I have read about OpenGL in
Vista and thought that there were native drivers included in RC1. Is there
somewhere I need to enable OpenGL?
3. TitanQuest was the only one to actually run correctly, but not after some
working with. I had to use the Compatibility Wizard, but once I did, the game
seemed to run fine. The weird part was that after the machine was rebooted, the
game needed the Comp. Wiz. to be run AGAIN for the game to run. Has anyone seen
this? Or is this a bug that is being kinked out?
If anyone has had good/great luck with getting games to run in Vista, can you please reply to this? I would love to know how you did it. Or maybe my install DIDN'T go as well as I thought!!
Thanx!
1. F.E.A.R., surprisingly, ran immdediately, but seemed to stutter a little. I
exited to the menu to lower my settings, but at that point, the game froze and I
had to end the process to get back to Vista. Has anyone gotten this game to run
right? How?
2. Quake IV installed fine and the id screens started to appear when I started the
game. Then nothing. No video, no sound, nothing. I have read about OpenGL in
Vista and thought that there were native drivers included in RC1. Is there
somewhere I need to enable OpenGL?
3. TitanQuest was the only one to actually run correctly, but not after some
working with. I had to use the Compatibility Wizard, but once I did, the game
seemed to run fine. The weird part was that after the machine was rebooted, the
game needed the Comp. Wiz. to be run AGAIN for the game to run. Has anyone seen
this? Or is this a bug that is being kinked out?
If anyone has had good/great luck with getting games to run in Vista, can you please reply to this? I would love to know how you did it. Or maybe my install DIDN'T go as well as I thought!!
Thanx!