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[pyrothijs]

I have windows vista 64 bit...you know if the game start?

yes EM4 will work on Windows Vista.

Topic merged with the EM4/vista Topic.

[Xplorer4x4]

Vista x64 is designed to handle 32 bit apps as well as 64 bit apps(and games for that matter). 99.9% of of 32 bit apps and games should run fine in Vista 64 bit. However Vista x64 no longer supports 16 bit apps/games, but those are rather rare these days. You should read up on wow64 in Vista x64.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WoW64

[SleepyLizard]

To be honest im not a fan of Vista, the security pop up is really annoyin and the administrator pop up is also really annoyin as it takes ages to load up etc.

My suggestion is that if people are thinking of changing from XP, go for win7 and not vista!!

[Xplorer4x4]

To be honest im not a fan of Vista, the security pop up is really annoyin and the administrator pop up is also really annoyin as it takes ages to load up etc.

My suggestion is that if people are thinking of changing from XP, go for win7 and not vista!!

The security pop ups, aka User Account Control are easily disabled. So is the pop up saying UAC is disabled. As for taking ages to load, I havent clocked it but it seems as fast as my Windows XP. Maybe your system specs just arent the best for running Vista? I have run Vista Ultimate x64 for like a month now and love it! With a hard drive upgrade it runs even better then XP x32 did.

[SleepyLizard]

The security pop ups, aka User Account Control are easily disabled. So is the pop up saying UAC is disabled. As for taking ages to load, I havent clocked it but it seems as fast as my Windows XP. Maybe your system specs just arent the best for running Vista? I have run Vista Ultimate x64 for like a month now and love it! With a hard drive upgrade it runs even better then XP x32 did.

hmm ive looked but havent found anything tht would disable it! any advice would be appreciated

As for the load up time, i was talking for the security pop ups and not its actually start up.

Also ive heard that Win7 has much faster transfer file time unlike vista and that the overall speed of Win7 is much faster.

for me a OS has to be fairly fast, as i play alot of games, and use my comp heavily! i feel vista just aint up to the task, XP was and ive heard win7 is wot vista should have been!! to me vista is just very complicated, not very user friendly!

[Xplorer4x4]

go to the start menu and in the run/search box type msconfig. Hit Enter. Click on the tab that says Tools. Find Disable UAC, click Launch in the lower right corner and click apply. That easy.

As for vista/win 7 speed, yes Win 7 is pretty much the completed version of Win Vista. I wouldnt say 7 is incredibly faster then vista, but it is faster. As I said though with the right specs, and the right tweaks Vista runs just fine on my PC. Yes it takes more resources but thats not the first time, nor last time a windows upgrade will be like that. People said the same thing when MS went from 16 bit operating systems to 32 bit operating system. Keep in mind your beloved XP was at one time considered to be very unstable, but now were on SP3 and every one loves it.

As for being user friendly, they changed things around. Give your self time to adjust to it rather then just using it for 5 mins and saying you dont like it. Plus if you plan to go to Win 7 then consider getting used to it as in the end, while Vista does offer some great new features, it isnt that much different then vista as far as locating things.

I would also make sure you have a solid built PC like a Core 2 Duo or Dore 2 Quad, 4 GB RAM,a 7200 RPM Hard drive with 32 megabytes cache(preferably a WD), and a video card with atleast 500 MB dedicated video memory. Oh and get Vista or Windows 7 64 bit if your cpu supports it, which I believe all the Core 2 processors do. The only thing is I have heard theres a major lack of XP x64 driver support, so only go with Vista x64 or Win 7 x64.

[Xplorer4x4]

Of course it did. Its been known for some time EM4 works fine on Vista.

[LACityFFengineCo287]

I'm using win7 on my other computer, and I get some issues with EM4/911:FS. The sound cuts out if your blue toolbar at the bottom goes over a vehicle. and modding isn't quite as easy as on XP.

[Xplorer4x4]

Theres a win 7 topic here http://forum.emergen...?showtopic=7032

How can it be harder? Its the same process with the same apps. Zmod 1 works(havent tried zmod 2 but if zmod 1 works surely zmod 2 does). Photoshop 7 and Photoshop CS1-4 work. Gimp and Paint.net still work. So Im completely baffled on how it can be harder.

[RedHawk504]

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I hope that ur problems now are gone, and if it not worked ask me and i will help u!

[Xplorer4x4]

We can read the normal size font fine..and there no reason to dual boot for EM4 as it works fine in vista and win 7 with some minor tweaks, and those tweaks arent even needed in some cases.