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[wabigbear]

This is the EXACT reason why I made myself a special hat made out of aluminum foil and a wire coat hanger to wear while I'm online - it keeps all them viruses away and stops the voices in my head.



In fact I made a slightly smaller cap out of foil and coat hangers to fit on top of my computer monitor. I haven't had any viruses since, and channel 7 comes in crystal clear now....

[Trainman 2000]

Unfortunately, jzbzbzzblizblb now posseses your computer

[ttdragster]

Aside from that, I am running Windows Vista Home Premium Edition 64-bit, and there are a couple good-sized parks I downloaded from the download manager here, and at "High Performance" I was only running at 10 FPS.

My system specs are:
2.2 GHz AMD Athlon 64
2 GB Dual Channel (PC3200) RAM
80 GB HDD ( I forgot the interface, has IDE cable, definitely not SATA)
256 MB Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT PCI-Express 16x

**EDIT** Didn't have updated Nvidia drivers, so I updated them. Performance did not improve.



EDIT: Section removed per TOS rules.

Edited by wabigbear, 05 June 2007 - 01:10 AM.

[jonnywatts]

I'm hoping that now since Vista has been out for awhile, I'll be just fine.


Can't wait to build mah gaming machinez!

[wabigbear]

We were lucky enough to have access to the final beta, and installed it on our old computer, which is about four years old. It was such a resource hog that many other programs wouldn't even run even though they were compatible. The video card wasn't compatible, so I couldn't try RCT3. It was a real mess un-installing Vista too, they don't want to make it easy if you change your mind.



I just upgraded the current year and a half old main computer with more RAM and a new 512 Mb 1550 video card (a real improvement), but I think we're going to give the old computer to a nephew, make the current computer mainly for playing RCT3, and then buy a brand new computer, which probably will have Vista. I'm interested to see how a machine designed with Vista in mind performs...

[rcthelp]

My opinion so far is:

• if you have an old computer running XP
• and you can afford a new computer
• you can also afford a disk boot manager UK£20 approx so that you can have XP AND Vista on the new computer.

That way, Vista is only needed if the software isn't XP compatible. With my Vista PC bought in April, I've used XP on it about 95% of the time.

[Sambo]

There is a boot manager with Vista that seems to work rather well on the test machine we have at work...

[wabigbear]

Good suggestion rcthelp, that's something I will look into for sure.

[wabigbear]

Well, we did indeed purchase a new computer, a new Dell Dual core 1.8 with 4 Gb of memory, and Vista came with it. So far it's really, really pretty . Can't say much more than that yet.

This has a Radeon X1300, 256 Mb video card, but I haven't tried RCT3 on it, and since I just installed a X1550 512 Mb card on the old computer that runs XP, I plan to up the memory on the old machine also to 4 Gb. I'm really not sure if I want to deal with the problems RCT3 has with Vista and may just leave it on the old machine where I've had great results with the new card.

[ancient tycoonist]

Yah! On my new laptop with vista, RCT3 runs like a dream. (100x faster than my reg. computer with XP)