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[KiTA]

A good while back, there was a thread about DF performance.  In that thread, which I can't find any longer, I mentioned running it on Vista and getting single and low teen framerates on Vista, despite what I tried.

I just discovered the solution.

In Vista there's a new mode called UAC -- user access control.  This is the much decried annoy-ware -- basically this is what causes Vista to ask every 5 seconds if you want to do something.

Well, I turned that off, and now I'm getting a steady 60 FPS in DF's opening screen.

If you're having issues in game, I would highly recommend disabling UAC and trying that.

[herrbdog]

Good to know, but personally I will avoid Vista until I cannot run my games under 2000. (I hate XP even more than OSX.)

However, if there are more Vista-related issues, I would be interested to know. I will have to upgrade eventually =/

[Toady One]

Interesting.  I probably won't be pushed over to Vista until my current computer dies, so it'll be good to see how this all plays out.

[ctrlfrk]

Im still on 2k too, if i do ever need to upgrade to vista, i will definitely dual boot with 2k.

[Telok]

Depending on how things happen with Vista, MS, and various control issues (copyright/user/other) then it may eventually become easier to port over to one if the Linux/Unix distros and continue work from there. Actually this is probably rather unlikely, but I've seen MS OS decisions made that I consider even stupider.

Despite what MS and XP64 think 16 bit apps run just fine on a 64 bit processer, if the OS is coded to accept them. Backwards compatability is not evil, impossible, or morally corrupting. We cheapskates regularly thank the holies that dual boot and open source OS exists.

[iambic]

If you're having this problem, update your video card drivers.

I went from 14 to a solid 60 after getting the latest nvidia betas.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_101.41.html

[Xombie]

If you decide to downgrade from XP or 2k to vista know - you will have fps decrease in almost all the games and graphic apps are slower too. This is all tested and benchmarked. However if you have uber-pc you might not see any real difference in perfomance.
Other than that vista dont provide any useful features that makes it better than xp/2k in any way.

[Lord Blue]

Vista is a premature baby: it was sent out too soon, which doesn't mean its ugly, although it does mean that it has a high chance of being retarded.

*throws rocks at MS*

WTF, mate?

[Momaw]

It's generally agreed that Windows isn't actually "done" until the second service pack.