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Originally Posted by gamefreak94

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

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I bought a package called Ultimate Pro Pinball which contains Timeshock, Big
Race USA and Fantastic Journey for $19.99 at Gamestop. These games perform
100% better on Vista then they did on XP. No flippers getting stuck or
anything.

Originally Posted by gamefreak94

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

Windows Vista Team Blog : Windows Vista Content Protection - Twenty Questions (and Answers)

Windows Vista's content protection mechanisms are only used when required by the policy associated with the content being played. For Windows Vista experiences, if the content does not require a particular protection, then that protection mechanism is not used.

Note that Microsoft did not invent, nor are they responsible for controlling, DRM. If MS didn't want to put DRM in Vista, they'd have to make Vista not be able to play DRM-protected content at all. DRM is a requirement of the content providers. No company can knowingly make DRM-free devices that can play (and allow copying of) DRM content without getting in a ton of trouble. This is not MS's fault and not Vista's fault. If you want to complain, complain to the content providers.

Originally Posted by gamefreak94

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.

Vista's legendary bloat and hardware requirements seem excessive, but nobody is forcing anyone to upgrade an old PC to Vista. While "mileage may vary" on five year old computers, on a new PC purchased today with even fairly low specs Vista can run and run well.

Originally Posted by gamefreak94

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

If you are in a financial position that you are clinging to 12-year old computers, you're probably not in a position to legally purchase and use any edition of Vista. Fairly simple conclusion to me.

Originally Posted by gamefreak94

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

PC makers get a massive cost break by pre-loading Vista. It achieves more than just "selling Vista".. MS would practically be willing to take a loss to get the OS on a machine since once that user buys say, Office, the cost is immediately made up. For years Windows was little more than application marketing. They got Windows on the PC for whatever it cost, then just waited for the application purchases.

Originally Posted by gamefreak94

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

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The oldest game I have installed and ran in Vista x64 is the original Age of Empires, circa 1998. It ran without issues.

Originally Posted by gamefreak94

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

Vista does housekeeping when it's idle. It runs defrags, adjusts Superfetch, does indexing.. It doesn't just sit there waiting for the user to whine about how Windows requires periodic maintenance. It takes care of the bulk of that for the user, transparently.

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