Anyone else using Vista + Dom3?

haileris · #1 December 30th, 2006, 05:37 PM

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 · #2 December 30th, 2006, 09:12 PM

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

other than that I got nothing.

haileris · #3 December 30th, 2006, 09:42 PM

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 · #4 December 30th, 2006, 09:57 PM

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

haileris · #5 December 30th, 2006, 10:07 PM

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 · #6 December 30th, 2006, 10:25 PM

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

alexti · #7 December 30th, 2006, 11:03 PM

It's probably the drivers. ATI was notorious for poor OpenGL drivers and with Vista drivers being still in a bit "beta", I'd guess OpenGL wasn't their first priority

Arralen · #8 December 31st, 2006, 05:34 AM

Google for +Vista +OpenGL +support .

Get ready to migrate to Linux

Agrajag · #9 December 31st, 2006, 05:45 AM

Quote:

Arralen said:
Google for +Vista +OpenGL +support .

Get ready to migrate to Linux

This was the first result, not very discouraging for Vista+OpenGL.

Arralen · #10 December 31st, 2006, 09:01 AM

It is, as you'll be either
a) stuck with the "layered" OpenGL 1.4 provided by MS - guess this will happen with all low-budget and on-board GPUs, as the vendor will only have to provide working DX drivers then. Speed will be abysmal.
b) at the mercy of Ati and nVidia to provide ICDs for your card. Older cards will be dropped I bet and have to use a)

Btw., what I'm really hoping that the folks from reactOS get their OpenGL support working again, that I can run Dom on ROS ;-)