Talk:Windows Vista
Personal experiences
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Brink Vendetta
Summary
Success running SL under Vista
Summary
- CPU: Intel Core 2 Series Processor (2394 MHz)
- Memory: 2046 MB
- OS Version: Microsoft Windows Vista (Build 6000)
- Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
- Graphics Card: GeForce 8600 GTS/PCI/SSE2
- OpenGL Version: 2.1.1
- LLMozLib Version: 1.1.0 (Mozilla GRE:1.8.0.12_0000000000)
- Packets Lost: 0/2408 (0.0%)
- Viewer Digest: 3168b992-f7fb-ef53-6798-a6b39d2fe092
More info
SL is operating fine with Vista 32bit, non-XP mode. Some textures are messed up but the game itself runs flawlessly. Let me know if I can be of assistance to anyone, I know a lot about Windows Vista.
Ey Ren
Summary
Success running SL under Vista
System
ASUSTEK G2 Laptop
- CPU: Intel Core 2 Series Processor (1994 MHz)
- Memory: 2047 MB
- OS Version: Microsoft Windows Vista (Build 6000)
- Graphics Card Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
- Graphics Card: ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1700
More info
SL failed to run with the default driver. I modded ATI Catalyst 7.8 with the free tool from Driver Heaven (took me less than 10 minutes). The instructions says to install MSXML 4.0 - I installed MSXML 6.0 and ran the tool without problems.
Benja Kepler
Summary
Catalyst 7.3+ upgrade recommended by AMD for viewer crash when using Catalyst 7.1 and Vista
System
Dell Dimension C521
- CPU: AMD (Unknown model) (2304 MHz)
- Memory: 2046 MB
- OS Version: Microsoft Windows Vista (Build 6000)
- Graphics Card Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
- Graphics Card: Radeon X1300/X1550 Series
More info
The first time I tried SL on my Vista machine, the viewer crashed. I found this on the AMD support website
After updating to Catalyst 7.4 I was able to load SL.
Summary
Various problems using non-Administrator account in Vista
System
as above
More info
Strange things seemed to happen using a non-Administrator account under Vista that went away, with the same viewer, when run under Administrator, such as:-
While logged into the non-Administrator account, the view can be run 'As Administrator', as well as logging into Administrator to run it from there.
Karyuu Vultee
Summary
FAILURE to run SL so far on Vista using Intel graphics card
System
OS: Vista basic Graphics card: Mobile Intel(R) Express Chipset Family
More info
SL opens fine, I click loggin and when it gets to precaching it crashes. This is obviously from the incompatible graphics card. I've tried almost everything and I'm to cheap/poor to buy a new graphics card so I really hope Intel, SL, or Vista finds a fix soon. I've messed with vista's compatibility options, have the newest driver from Intel, reinstalled SL, emptied and re-emptied the cache. I'm currently testing supposed "cross compatible drivers" but I don't have high hopes for it working. If it, or any other cracked up configuration fixes the problem I'll let you know.
~SL name Karyuu Vultee
UPDATE!!!
PROBLEM SOLVED!
So I've searched far and wide and finally found something that worked to fix the problem I was having. Here's a link to the page that helped me: http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/isn/Community/en-US/forums/30244543/ShowThread.aspx#30244543
Though this seems specifically for Intel graphics cards it's worth a try!!!