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Works Great Under Vista 32!
I just wanted to say that a week ago I built a new core 2 duo box with Vista 32 installed.

I went ahead and installed FS2 from my CDs and that went w/o a hitch! Applied the patch then used the FreeSpace source code install --- It all works great! I am so happy to be playing FS2 again! WTG guys!

 
Re: Works Great Under Vista 32!
As long as you have a video card supported, yes.  If not... your in major trouble, especially if theres no up-to-date drivers.
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PH34R THE SH1TTY 8800GTX DRIVERZ!
To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet, only one grain will grow. - Metrodorus of Chios
I wept. Mysterious forces beyond my ken had reached into my beautiful mission and energized its pilots with inhuman bomb-firing abilities. I could only imagine the GTVA warriors giving a mighty KIAAIIIIIII shout as they worked their triggers, their biceps bulging with sinew after years of Ivan Drago-esque steroid therapy and weight training. - General Battuta

 
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or the crummy ide drivers.
That's cool and ....disturbing at the same time o_o  - Vasudan Admiral

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is it just me or does vista make it harder to dev mods? i have no problem running the game, but when im scripting and i get something wrong, the game crashes as usual. but in vista instead of just crashing, i have to click about a dozen popups before i can actually use my system again. if you disable the admin popup, you get another popup every time you boot saying your security is bad, it leaves an icon in your tray which pisses me off. they changed the name of everything. its the same stuff, just repackaged.  everything is dumbed down to the point of uselessness. KILL MICROSOFT NOW!!!!!!!

i installed ubuntu on my second drive but i had some problems getting my network drivers to work (no drivers means no repository access and no libs to compile all the other drivers = system no workie too well). the disc for the wireless adapter had drivers for redhat, so i might try a fedora installation instead.  in the end i hope to have a win98 install running in wine so i can run my old games again.
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this is why im getting xp64 on my new comp
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Re: Works Great Under Vista 32!
I just wanted to say that a week ago I built a new core 2 duo box with Vista 32 installed.

I went ahead and installed FS2 from my CDs and that went w/o a hitch! Applied the patch then used the FreeSpace source code install --- It all works great! I am so happy to be playing FS2 again! WTG guys!

Intel actually has a quad-core processor now! WOW!! :eek:
Gettin' back to dodgin' lasers.

 

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QUAD-core? :jaw:

 

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So?

Probably wouldn't work very well with FSO anyways.
To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet, only one grain will grow. - Metrodorus of Chios
I wept. Mysterious forces beyond my ken had reached into my beautiful mission and energized its pilots with inhuman bomb-firing abilities. I could only imagine the GTVA warriors giving a mighty KIAAIIIIIII shout as they worked their triggers, their biceps bulging with sinew after years of Ivan Drago-esque steroid therapy and weight training. - General Battuta

 

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[crappy British accent]Why ever not, master Cobra?[/crappy British accent]

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Offline Cobra

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As far as I know, FSO doesn't have proper support for 4 cores.
To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet, only one grain will grow. - Metrodorus of Chios
I wept. Mysterious forces beyond my ken had reached into my beautiful mission and energized its pilots with inhuman bomb-firing abilities. I could only imagine the GTVA warriors giving a mighty KIAAIIIIIII shout as they worked their triggers, their biceps bulging with sinew after years of Ivan Drago-esque steroid therapy and weight training. - General Battuta

 

Offline jr2

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Re: Works Great Under Vista 32!
Processor affinity should fix that, I think...

 
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As far as I know, FSO doesn't have proper support for 4 cores.

Does it even have support for two cores, or was that fixed?
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Offline CP5670

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Re: Works Great Under Vista 32!
The multiprocessor problems in FS2 were fixed almost two years ago. That shouldn't be an issue at all these days.

 

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I heard quad cores suck.

 

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They suck in the sense that the vast majority of programs show no benefit from them at all. Unless you have a specific use in mind (a 3D rendering app or something), they aren't worth it.

 

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They suck in the sense that the vast majority of programs show no benefit from them at all. Unless you have a specific use in mind (a 3D rendering app or something), they aren't worth it.

so, they are about as fast as there core2duo counterparts?

 
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They suck in the sense that the vast majority of programs show no benefit from them at all. Unless you have a specific use in mind (a 3D rendering app or something), they aren't worth it.

so, they are about as fast as there core2duo counterparts?

In most benchmarks, YES.
However, an advantage of quad cores, is as more apps go multi-threaded, they provide what dual cores did with single threaded apps. Usability. No single program should be able to monopolize your CPU.

 

Offline CP5670

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That is unlikely to happen for a long time though. We've only started to see mainstream programs taking serious advantage of dual cores a few months ago, and dual cores came out in mid-2005.