Vista

[mithur]

Originally Posted by xenofur

aside from the oodles of reasons against Vista, DX10 is the single reason for it.

Lol. A PC is far more than a Game console, you know? And no, DX10 is only one more reason to switch to Vista; there are a lot more, and good ones.

[ashling]

Originally Posted by mithur

Lol. A PC is far more than a Game console, you know? And no, DX10 is only one more reason to switch to Vista; there are a lot more, and good ones.

I'm with Xenofur on passing on Vista

[katriell]

Originally Posted by mithur

Lol. A PC is far more than a Game console, you know? And no, DX10 is only one more reason to switch to Vista; there are a lot more, and good ones.

You should look up some articles on Vista's "fine print." It's rather dystopian.

[mithur]

Originally Posted by katriell

You should look up some articles on Vista's "fine print." It's rather dystopian.

No need; several months testing vista at home and work. I know it *very* good. Much more stable, and more secure for final user.

And the eyecandy; only if you like it.

BTW, as Riveit says, the restrictions are a fake. Some people have to learn what means "trusted computing" and another things...

And yes, this is a big off-topic

[amitst]

Talk about dragging things way off topic... just answer the man.

Yes it can work under vista.

[neofyte]

Originally Posted by amitst

Talk about dragging things way off topic... just answer the man.

Yes it can work under vista.

Thank you

[fadebait]

Works ok.
The driver version checking on ryzom launch can be annoying as it asks you to update your drivers every time for ATI cards to do different vista versioning.
On some cards alt-tabbing causes texture issues too - but alt-tabbing is not 100% on XP either.

[xenofur]

Originally Posted by mithur

Lol. A PC is far more than a Game console, you know? And no, DX10 is only one more reason to switch to Vista; there are a lot more, and good ones.

The part about the game console is exactly my point. The only advantage that Vista offers over XP is that it is able to display games that support DX10 better. All the other stuff is either about restricting what you can do with computer or pure eye candy without any merit in a work environment.

This should be moved to off-topic though, methinks.

[kaetemi]

Originally Posted by xenofur

All the other stuff is either about restricting what you can do with computer or pure eye candy without any merit in a work environment

That stuff about restricting what you can do with your computer, is completely fake information. Give me a verifiable example of a restriction first. A firewall, now THAT's restriction, I say! Yes, the eye candy is a bit too much, but when enabled you are using the new window renderer, which uses more of the gfx card instead of cpu than the old one, and gives every window it's own drawing buffer, greatly reducing required CPU power for UI drawing (and increasing RAM requirements, btw).

I recommend giving the user you use to log in full access rights to the folder where you installed Ryzom, so the updates are written directly to the installation directory instead of the virtual personal program files override directory.

[xenofur]

kaetemi, mithur, i suggest reading this: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut00...ista_cost.html

regarding the eye candy: first off, it decreases usability by using up valuable screen estate, some of us are still using 10x7.
secondly, great, it uses the gfx card, but tell me, why the heck would i want my gfx card in high power mode all the time? my power bill is big enough each month.
lastly, i have 2 gb of ram and i still am short all the time, why the heck should i want something that wastes even more of it?