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If you haven't tried it, you can't guarantee it works.
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I didn't say it does. I do know the other two work. The flippers indeed do not get stuck in Vista, although this was perfectly fixable in XP as well.
Some games actually benefit from the fact that dsound is not present, as weird as that may sound (this because some games had very buggy 3d sound implementations).
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It doesn't always, but Microsoft themselves claim that it is there and it does a load of unnecessary stuff
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link please where MS says it does?
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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.
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so? compare 98 with Xp... and that card was a Geforce 4 TI.. bought it in 2003. Does not do Aero, because it doesn't have dx9 support.
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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
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it would be faster with win98... see how sucky xp is?
and uh, the Pentium
2 was introduced in 1997. That's quite the time-travelling P3 you've got there
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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
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really, I didn't know that
...so, how is that a disadvantage of Vista, if other software, like, uh, XP, also costs money?
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Other than that many old games won't work, GTA San Andreas definetly won't
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which others then? We've got GTA SA, MGS2 and Midnight Club. I'm sure you can find a few more, but how big exactly is that list of yours?
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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
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Aha, well, might be true. ...and "all the time" eh? hmm... I did search on the net and found you're referring to an article from 2006. I'll give you 2007 for free. Let's see how it is now... I assume that because it runs heavier, it would consume more power indeed, but I'd like to know how much that is when comparing XP SP3 to Vista SP1, and not anything older.
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Maybe because they are also humans!!!! they have the same curiosity about new stuff as you and I do.
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yes, and that's why you can blame it on the OS if it doesn't run on an old pentium.
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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"
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I wouldn't either. I just don't have any of the problems.