WAR (Warhammer Online)

There are a ton of people complaining about CTDs while playing WAR. Most of them claim a CTD every 30 minutes; some say it's more or less frequent.

My advice: get Vista.

I've been playing WAR for several weeks now, and I literally have not had a single CTD. My rig is decent, but certainly not top-end since I bought it about a year ago. I have SLI, but I'm not even running it because I use dual monitors for work entirely too much to lose that functionality. My 2 vid cards are only 256Mb, but even in large-scale RvR, the lag is virtually non-existent. And no, I don't have some miraculous intarweb connection. In fact, I live in a rural area and only have 3Mb DSL (yuck!).

I know about a dozen friends that are also in the preview weekend, and 3 who were in closed beta. Of those people, only 2 of them have had CTD issues, and they're both running Windows XP.

Seriously, XP is a piece of sh*t OS. Unless you're running a bunch of really old programs that won't install on Vista, there's just no reason to not upgrade (if you're able to do so monetarily, of course). Say what you want about Vista, but I've been using it since I bought this rig new a year ago and I've NEVER seen a BSoD, nor have I CTD in any of the games I play frequently.

Just my 2 cents.

I have 4 machines running this game and only the version with a clean install of vista crashes.

The rig has decent specs, Quad 6600 with 4gigs of ram an 8800 GT 640 running vista 32 bit.

the other computers some of lesser stats all have xp pro and not one crash.

Heh. Not much of a 2 cents. You're advocating people spend $200+ to upgrade to something they really don't need. The only thing Vista provides over XP is Directx10 support, and we've seen how many games have that. Vista is also a resource hog and, honestly, a pain in the ass to do anything on as it asks you 'Do you really want to do this?' on everything you do. Yes, you can disable it, but then you run into the problem that you're opening up the computer more than it is on XP, with no middle ground. While I can see the benefits of that in a corporate environment, it makes little sense in a home environment.

XP is hardly a crap OS, and it is the most prevalent with many reluctant to upgrade to Vista due to the reports of all the software that won't run on it and the performance hit you take for running games under Vista. Pretty much it boils down to: if you're buying a new machine, go ahead and get Vista. Otherwise, stick with XP.

Originally posted by twhint

Heh. Not much of a 2 cents. You're advocating people spend $200+ to upgrade to something they really don't need. The only thing Vista provides over XP is Directx10 support, and we've seen how many games have that. Vista is also a resource hog and, honestly, a pain in the ass to do anything on as it asks you 'Do you really want to do this?' on everything you do. Yes, you can disable it, but then you run into the problem that you're opening up the computer more than it is on XP, with no middle ground. While I can see the benefits of that in a corporate environment, it makes little sense in a home environment.

XP is hardly a crap OS, and it is the most prevalent with many reluctant to upgrade to Vista due to the reports of all the software that won't run on it and the performance hit you take for running games under Vista. Pretty much it boils down to: if you're buying a new machine, go ahead and get Vista. Otherwise, stick with XP.

 

My 2 cents is worth just as much as yours, bud. Take that for what it's worth.

If you and all your friends who ran Vista had no problems crashing w/ WAR or any other game you normally play, and you HAD problems crashing when using XP, what would you suggest? I wonder.

I do this moron thing... it's called "basing my opinions on my experiences". Sorry if you can't understand how that works.

I never said this would fix all your problems. In fact, I said "my advice".

Well I'm using XP pro and  I haven't had a single CTD. Not one. Whatever the problem is, I doubt it has anything to do with the OS.

I run Xp pro and I have only had ONE CTD in 14 hours of game play over the last 2 days.

Originally posted by Gazenthia

Well I'm using XP pro and  I haven't had a single CTD. Not one. Whatever the problem is, I doubt it has anything to do with the OS.

Same here.  No CTDs running XP Pro.  And on top of that, I'm also using a GPU that they're still working to get straight, with few issues of any kind.

I'm on XP pro as well with latest updates and haven't had a single CTD.

Welcome to 2 cent central. I've played beta on two machines. One has XP Home. Not one CTD. My other has Vista, and is a pretty fresh install. Constant CTDs.

Don't use such limited statistics to base a claim to what everybody should do.

before the patch this morning i had 0 CTDs, after the patch i crash evey 40 min.