[gamefreak94]

Big Race USA and Fantastic Journey run under Vista. I did not try Timeshock, though.

If you haven't tried it, you can't guarantee it works.

it has yet to annoy me once about DRM or software I installed.

It doesn't always, but Microsoft themselves claim that it is there and it does a load of unnecessary stuff

That's why they made this application to check your hardware compatibility with Vista

The tool checks if your hardware is capable or not, it doesn't actually make it work though and I bet your old PC couldn't have any video card more than 5 years old, see this is just what I mean, my older P4 had a Nvidia FX5500 on it and it said that Vista wouldn't work well if I ran games. And if you see the system requirements for any game, you'll see that if it requires 1 GB for XP, it'll require at least 2 GB for Vista.

That's like running XP on a pc from 1998

If you read one of my previous posts on the same thread, you will see that my third PC, a Dell Optplex GX1, a 550 MHz P3 with 128 MB RAM and no video memory runs XP just fine (a minute or two slower at start-up but otherwise nothing much) that PC is from 1996

..came with the pc.

When you say that Vista came with the PC, it doesn't mean you got it for free you know, the price of the OS is always included in the price of the PC. Microsoft will NEVER offer ANYONE or ANY company a free OS

Other than that many old games won't work, GTA San Andreas definetly won't

faster than what? and when?

Oh I don't know XP MAYBE!!!!! and all the time, even with speedstep or Power Save! on, Vista requires more computing power even when idle, so there

why are people with old pc's so eager to run Vista?

Maybe because they are also humans!!!! they have the same curiosity about new stuff as you and I do.

They look nice. If your rig can pull it off, you want em on

well its not exactly a bargain, I would never want to put up with all the problems for a some semi-transparent windoes and floating toolbars just because they "look nice"