Age of Conan

right now i would say just stay at XP. wait till vista x64 has more compatibility, although my vista 64bit seems to be running great. i can understand where others are coming from though. Vista 32 just seems like a waste uses more resources and you are still choked off at 3.5 gb of ram.

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Originally posted by dsebutchr
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The article has pretty much convinced me that Vista will be the gaming OS of the future.
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It's not like there are any options, Microsoft has made the decree and we will follow, there is no choice - unless you want to dump PC gaming and go with consoles exclusively. Not a bad option, unless you're a MMO fiend. (No, lets not mention linux and Mac's, I've a bit of a cold and don't want to risk laughing myself into a coughing fit, I may not recover.)

LoL'd when PC manufacturers starting reinstated the option of XP after the Vista fiasco.

I for one will be waiting for about a year for 3rd party companies to all catch up and for Vista SP2.

By then I think I will be forced to make the costly, resource hog, move to Vista.with gritted teeth  :(

Originally posted by diabolic

Vista is where it's at for gaming. Honestly, you're wasting your time if you go back to XP. It's going to be obsolete pretty soon anyway, as more DX10 games come out.

Vista is extremely stable in the 32 bit version. I've had no troubles running any new games, and countless old games as well. Come to think of it, Vista has been a dream as far as stabilty goes. Many people are running the 64 bit version of Vista expecting it to be just another upgrade, thinking they can run old programs and stuff, only to find they can't. Noobs who don't know any better :P

Trash XP. It's old News.

Go with Vista 32 right now.

Move to Vista 64 in a year or so when compatibility is better.

A lot of misinformation in this thread.  I just recently upgraded to Vista 64-bit and here are my thoughts:

If you don't have the money to shell out for 4gig or more, then stick with XP.  32-bit OS can only address 4Gig of RAM and Windows only allows you to see at most 3Gig (with a hack).  The game could probably use any amount of RAM it can see and you'd benefit from increased texture cache to system memory if you have that extra RAM.  The problem is you have to get the extra RAM and have ALL of it available.  That would require going to Vista 64-bit.

Concerning DX10.  The game uses shader model 3.0 which is pretty close to what you'd see running DirectX10.  Most people revert to shader model 2.0 to get the big speed improvement but there's just no comparison between the two - 3.0 >>>> 2.0.

In the end, everyone will move to Vista 64-bit because of the RAM limitations of the 32-bit machines.  The question is whether you want to do it now or later..

I think most people that say vista sucks or is crap have never even used it, its all hearsay.

I personally have 2 computers, a desktop with E6600, geforce8800gt, and 4 gigs of ram, and vista Ultimate has never crashed on me once, age of conan runs awesome on high settings with around 50-60 FPS.

My laptop has 2 gigs of ram, geforce 8400, and core2duo--dont remember the chip. It has vista home premuim, and again has never crashed. I have not tried age of conan on this laptop.

I think vista is very stable, and I work in IT, and have my MCSE. I dont claim to know it all, but we use XP at work, and its far from perfect.

I think Microsoft has finalyl made a great product with Vista.

Can someone explain me what is the point of Vista 32? As I understand Vista uses alot more RAM and leaving less for games and 32 bit system only supports RAM up to 2,5 GB or something. Maybe Vista 64 is good if you buy 4-8 GB of RAM ?

not all companys make products or support for 64 bit OS, so say you buy a HP printer, its driver may only work in 32 bit OS.

Originally posted by rocking23nf

not all companys make products or support for 64 bit OS, so say you buy a HP printer, its driver may only work in 32 bit OS.

I mean if you use PC purely for gaming.

I just recently bought Vista 64 and installed it last night after hearing a lot of people say it is much better then when it first came out. Honestly it really wasnt only Vista's fault it was also the hardware and software dealers who didnt keep up with the changing times and having drivers ready to go.

I have been able to find 64 bit drivers for everything I have been using, Vista installed easier then any other OS I have installed and was smooth. I would say the biggest problem at the moment is just getting used to where everything is, not that this is really a problem just more of adjusting to change.

I was always against installing Vista up until a month or so ago when I decided to do more research and see how things have come along and I must say I am happy I upgraded and it is nice to see the OS recognize all of my memory as well. Age of Conan installed and ran fine, same FPS as I was getting in XP, just make sure you have SP1 installed or Conan will not load.