Topic: vista

[mephisto_kur]

It seems that sometimes the UAC would pop up when a program was opening or closing and basically cause a crash of the program.  I haven't experienced it myself, but some say that it fixed their source game not closing issue.  <shrug>  Thankfully, the UAC is more granular and tweakable in W7.

[mephisto_kur]

Oh, one more thing.  You can request a 32bit disk (or 64bit of you have 32bit) directly from MS.  The cd-key that comes with 64 works for 32 and vice versa.

[anomaly]

i want to try W7 i even downloaded the beta, but i only have one 250gb HDD and its not enough room for 2 OS these days...

Oh, one more thing.  You can request a 32bit disk (or 64bit of you have 32bit) directly from MS.  The cd-key that comes with 64 works for 32 and vice versa.

hmmmm.... is 32 as snappy as 64? or is vista just more responsive in general when compared to Xp? (assuming you have good hardware)

[mephisto_kur]

W7 is smaller than Vista.  they really cleaned it up, and they also clarified an issue with a directory of links to multiple copies of files.  The way it works in Vista, those links are reported as taking up the drive space of the actual file.  They changed that behavior.  I don't recommend dual booting with MS OSes anyway, and especially not with Betas.

I have not tried the 32bit version, but it is supposedly just as slick as the 64bit version.  It will only see and use 3GB of your RAM tho.

[anomaly]

in a perfect world by the time W7 i released i will have enough money for a 2nd HDD and the OS... but we will see.

[DAwG]

nice! how did you do that?

thats what about half my Steam crashes do and 100% of my Fallout3 crashes. i wounder if it worked for me if it would fix my random crashes as well. the only thing i ever tried was running in "Xp compatibility mode" and that didn't change a thing...


 

should be right under the compatibility mode, it will be greyed out while you have UAC disabled, you would have to re-enable it.  You may have to go into the .exe for Steam and/or the game .exe and set the Administrator priveleges

I had to do it for Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones, it would pretend it was going to boot, and then kill, no message or anything. It's extremely aggravating when there's no error message.