Vista Support

[a24710 0]

is there ever going to be some sort of VISTA support???

i´m running a 64bits VISTA OS, and i´m gradually passing to this OS and leaving XP behind

i think BIS should put some effort on the VISTA compatibility, cause it´s being used more and more everyday

i have no problems with other games in VISTA, and i´m playing right now lost planet and graw2

i think that no official support to VISTA shouldn´t be an option

do anyone know if arma´s problems with vista are caused by the OS, by NVIDIA drivers or by BIS code??

thanks

[echo1 0]

Vista, and particularily the 64bit edition cause all sorts of problems with alot of games and software, Ive been using it for several months, and note that a large number of applications either crash, refuse to work, or display various quirks while running under Vista. So much so that Im changing back to XP soon.

Remember that ArmA was made (and released) before Vista came out. Im sure BIS is working on improving Vista support, and its quite important as whether we like it or not, Vista will be the most commonly used OS in about a year. IMHO I really think this is Microsoft's fault for changing so many things, but failing to bring around any serious improvements, of course, alot of people are just going to think that ArmA is a badly designed game, which it isnt.

[Surgeonsam 0]

I gave up and now dual boot with winxp cause of the random arma quit working crashes.

[sailindawg 0]

Quote[/b] ]Vista will be the most commonly used OS in about a year.

We will have to wait and see. I hope that it isn't.

The best thing to do, if you really want to run VISTA, is to set up 2 different hard drives, one for VISTA, one for XP. When booting, hit the Escape key to get to the boot selection menu, chose your HD (or OS) to boot from. The problem when dual booting VISTA & XP from the same hard drive is that VISTA overwrites the XP boot .ini file. Anything happens to VISTA, XP is hosed as well. Much better solution to run 2 seperate hard drives and keep the 2 OS's seperate.

In this manner, you can have a very lean XP install for gaming and have VISTA for whatever else you use your pc for.

[a24710 0]

well, i´ve got a dual boot now with XP, and i boot with XP everytime i want to play arma

microsoft is releasing a SP1 which is supposed to bring a lot of fixes about compatibility and performance issues

let´s wait and see

arma is the mains reason of not formatting the XP hard disk and use it like a second storing drive, cause every other game i have tested recently works ok under vista