Anyone else using Vista + Dom3?

[haileris]

Hi

As the subject goes, anyone else using Dom3 with Vista? If so, is it performing OK or not? I've got a dual boot machine and whilst the performance is fine on the XP OS the game crawls to a halt on Vista. My machine isn't too bad a specification (dual core AMD, 1GB memory, XL800 video card) so I doubt its the machine, but willing to be advised otherwise

Thanks
Drew

[Huzurdaddi]

1) try turning off glass.
2) check your divers.

other than that I got nothing.

[haileris]

Thanks but already updated to latest ATI drivers and "messed about" with the display & compatibility settings for running this app. I'll probably try it on my Nvidia based PC later and see how that goes.

Cheers
Drew

[Huzurdaddi]

Seriously, try turning off glass. It is an OS setting.

[haileris]

Sorry, I had tried that also, though in my experience glass doesn't have *that* great an impact when you have a reasonable PC (I was a Vista technical adoption reviewer for my company so I've had a little experience with Vista.)

Anyway, just figured out what it was - I always install my apps onto a separate drive to make the apps semi-independant. So I just ran the dom3 exe from the XP install. This works for most apps and the registry entries/dll registrations are quite easy to re-create. Obviously didn't work in this case - re-installing under Vista did the trick. I guess the dom3 config file was linked back to the previous install?

Anyway, sorted now so I am happy

Cheers
Drew

[haileris]

Hmm though having played around a little more Dom still runs considerably slower than on XP regardless. Oh well, I guess XP wasn't going to go away yet because of other apps in any case.
Cheers
Drew